diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b440af5939..451e3f1b79 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ systemd System and Service Manager CHANGES WITH 261 in spe: + Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes: + + * systemd-logind's integration with the UAPI.1 Boot Loader + Specification (which allows systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry= + switch to work) so far has supported a special directory + /run/boot-loader-entries/ which allowed defining boot loader entries + outside of the ESP/XBOOTLDR partition for compatibility with legacy + systems that do not natively implement UAPI.1. However, it appears + that (to our knowledge) it is not actually being used by any project + (quite unlike UAPI.1 itself, which found adoption far beyond + systemd), and its implementation is incomplete. With the future 262 + release we intend to remove support for /run/boot-loader-entries/ and + related interfaces, in order to simplify our codebase. Support for + UAPI.1 is – of course – kept in place. + Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes: * systemd-nspawn's --user= option has been renamed to --uid=. The -u