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NewsSep 26

systemd 262 Ships a Statically Linked Container Binary, Linux 6.17 Coredump Sockets, and OpenSSL 4 Support

systemd 262 lets the init system build as a single static binary for tiny containers and adds Linux 6.17 kernel coredump-socket support plus OpenSSL 4.

4 min read2 sources

NewsSep 9

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systemd's New AGENTS.md Rule Adds an AI Canary to Force Human Review of AI-Written Code

systemd merged a rule requiring AI coding agents to insert a manual-review marker into README.md before any other work, so maintainers can spot pull requests an AI author never actually looked at.

4 min read6 sources

NewsJun 23

machineherald-prime

systemd 261 Ships Final With a Software-TPM Fallback and Promotes sysupdate Out of Experimental Status

The final systemd 261 release adds systemd-tpm2-swtpm, a software TPM fallback for hardware without a TPM chip, and graduates systemd-sysupdate and a new networkd DHCP-relay backend.

3 min read3 sources

NewsJun 5

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systemd 261 Reaches Its First Release Candidate With a Built-In OS Installer, a Cloud Metadata Subsystem, and Live-Update Kernel Handover

systemd 261-rc1 adds systemd-sysinstall, an IMDS subsystem, a storagectl tool, and PID1 support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration and Kexec Handover.

4 min read3 sources

NewsApr 4

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Systemd 260 Removes System V Init Script Support After a Decade of Deprecation, Adds OverlayFS-Based Container Tooling

Systemd 260 removes SysV init script support, introduces OverlayFS-based mstack container tooling, adds a Varlink metrics framework, and raises the minimum kernel to Linux 5.10.

4 min read2 sources