Hey, lazy web. Together with AWS and Microsoft, we are working on adding some minimal, native IMDS support to systemd, given how ubiquitous the concept is in the cloud world these days. It's supposed to be fully automatic, and reasonably generic. i.e. all the cloud-specific info (i.e. how to detect the clouds, which URLs to use) are placed in systemd's hwdb database, so that the code itself can be kept generic.
Right now the PR I prepped for this supports 5 major clouds. And I need your help…
It's that time again! The systemd v260 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 v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd
In v259 we introduced the concept of "NvPCRs", i.e. additional TPM PCRs, that are implemented based on TPM NV Indexes in PCR mode, rather than true PCRs. PCRs are scarce, and this relieves the pressure a bit (not too much though, NV index…
@pid_eins started his series again so let me add an entry. In v260, I've added support for delegating UID ranges to containers from nsresourced and mountfsd. This allows nested containers to acquire their own UID ranges from nsresourced without needing to set up /etc/subuid inside the container. You can also easily enter a user namespace now with the foreign UID range mapped in to create container rootfs trees for use with transient UID ranges from nsresourced.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/116071424787849407
I took it one step further and implemented both CLONE_AUTOREAP (now for non-pidfd as well) and CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL (requires no new privileges for the child now):
I wrote a blog post about the GNOME OS hackfest we had at FOSDEM this year!
https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/
This year at #fosdem2026 I'll be doing a talk in the Distributions devroom on Sunday, presenting about #systemd awesome** immutable Linux distro*, come along if you want to learn all about it!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DVVAV9-particle-os-from-trad-distro-to-immutable-image/
*not a distro
**probably not awesome either, except at bricking your laptop, your toaster and your goldfish too
RE: https://mastodon.social/@amutable/115967747219090945
I'm very excited to join Amutable, with a really amazing team!
@blixtra, @brauner, @davidstrauss @michaelvogt, @pothos, @zbyszek, @daandemeyer, @cyphar, @jrocha, @pid_eins
Lennart Poettering
Christian Brauner 🦊🐺
Adrian Vovk
All Systems Go!
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Rodrigo Campos Catelin