Systemd 216 Piles On More Features, Aims For New User-Space VT
Lennart Poettering announced the systemd 216 release on Tuesday and among its changes is a more complete systemd-resolved that has nearly complete caching DNS and LLMNR stub resolver, a new systemd terminal library, and a number of new commands.
The systemd 216 release also has improvements to various systemd sub-commands, an nss-mymachines NSS module was added, a new networkctl client tool, KDBUS updates against Linux 3.17's memfd, networkd improvements, a new systemd-terminal library for implementing full TTY stream parsing and rendering, a new systemd-journal-upload utility, an LZ4 compressor for journald, a new systemd-escape tool, a new systemd-firstboot component, and much more.
The purpose of the systemd-terminal library with full TTY stream parsing/rendering is aiming to be used for implementing a full user-space VT subsystem to replace the current kernel VT implementation. Around for a while now has also been KMSCON as a DRM-based terminal emulator separate from the kernel with an aim of killing the kernel's VT support so the virtual terminal is handled by user-space, similar to systemd's new goal (there's also the CONFIG_VT mayhem).
Those wishing to read more about all of the new functionality found in systemd 216 can read the mailing list announcement.
The systemd 216 release also has improvements to various systemd sub-commands, an nss-mymachines NSS module was added, a new networkctl client tool, KDBUS updates against Linux 3.17's memfd, networkd improvements, a new systemd-terminal library for implementing full TTY stream parsing and rendering, a new systemd-journal-upload utility, an LZ4 compressor for journald, a new systemd-escape tool, a new systemd-firstboot component, and much more.
The purpose of the systemd-terminal library with full TTY stream parsing/rendering is aiming to be used for implementing a full user-space VT subsystem to replace the current kernel VT implementation. Around for a while now has also been KMSCON as a DRM-based terminal emulator separate from the kernel with an aim of killing the kernel's VT support so the virtual terminal is handled by user-space, similar to systemd's new goal (there's also the CONFIG_VT mayhem).
Those wishing to read more about all of the new functionality found in systemd 216 can read the mailing list announcement.
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