5️⃣ Here's the 5th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v261 release of systemd. #systemd261 #systemd

When we first put together systemd-boot, it supported only UAPI.1 Type #1 entries: small text files with separate lines for kernel, initrd, and a few other fields. Soon later we added Type #2 entries, i.e. UKIs that are self-descriptive and which you just drop in the right dir. They have nice security and robustness properties, but they also had drawbacks, because they were very…

4️⃣ Here's the 4th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v261 release of systemd. #systemd261 #systemd

On many servers and embedded devices serial console console access on boot is absolutely essential. For that reason, firmwares (UEFI), boot loaders, and the kernel itself all support sending their boot time output to a serial port, and receiving input from it.

Configuring serial consoles in the boot loader and Linux is kinda painful though: you need to know some…

3️⃣ Here's the 3rd post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v261 release of systemd. #systemd261 #systemd

One very annoying error situation when developing operating systems is a boot loop: something fails while the system is still booting, and the thing immediately reboots, and you don't even get a chance to look at the screen to figure out what is going on. And then the system starts up again, and fails again, and so on and so on…

2️⃣ Here's the 2nd post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v261 release of systemd. #systemd261 #systemd

When you care for a more than a single system, it is often advisable to roll out new stuff in a staged fashion: first 1% of your fleet should get it, and only after the results are in and all is good, you up it to 10%, and then to 25% and finally to 100% (or in other steps like this).

With v261, systemd is going to help you with this to some degree:

It's that time again! The systemd v261 release is coming closer. Let's restart the "what's new" series of posts for this iteration! Hence:

1️⃣ Here's the 1st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v261 release of systemd. #systemd261 #systemd

systemd-repart is systemd's dynamic disk partitioner and image generation tool. It only deals with GPT disk labels – or more precisely, it only dealt with GPT disk labels *so* *far*. With v261 there's…

Mastodon Stories for systemd v260

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v260.html

I just finished my #systemd260 series of posts. And I now also prepped a blog story linking to every single one of them here:

https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v260.html

Make sure to stay tuned for the #systemd261 series, most likely starting already in a few weeks!