Announcing systemd v257

Last week we released systemd v257 into the wild.

In the weeks leading up to this release (and the week after) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd257 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read up, here's a list of all 37 posts:

Post #1: Fully Locked Accounts with systemd-sysusers
Post #2: Combined Signed PCR and Locally Managed PCR Policies for Disk Encryption
Post #3: Progress Indication via Terminal ANSI Sequence
Post #4: Multi-Profile UKIs
Post #5: The New sd-varlink & sd-json APIs in libsystemd
Post #6: Querying for Passwords in User Scope
Post #7: Secure Attention Key Logic in systemd-logind
Post #8: systemd-nspawn --bind-user= Now Copies User's SSH Key
Post #9: The New DeferReactivation= Switch in .timer Units
Post #10: Support for the New IPE LSM
Post #11: Environment Variables for Shell Prompt Prefix/Suffix
Post #12: sysctl Conflict Detection via eBPF
Post #13: initrd and µcode UKI Add-Ons
Post #14: SecureBoot Signing with the New systemd-sbsign Tool
Post #15: Managed Access to hidraw devices in systemd-logind
Post #16: Fuzzy Filtering in userdbctl
Post #17: MAC Address Based Alternative Network Interface Names
Post #18: Conditional Copying/Symlinking in tmpfiles.d/
Post #19: Automatic Service Restarts in Debug Mode
Post #20: Filtering by Invocation ID in journalctl
Post #21: Supplement Partitions in repart.d/
Post #22: DeviceTree Matching in UKIs
Post #23: The New ssh-exec: Protocol in varlinkctl
Post #24: SecureBoot Key Enrollment Preparation with bootctl
Post #25: Automatically Installing confext/sysext/portable/VMs/container Images at Boot
Post #26: Designated Maintenance Time in systemd-logind
Post #27: PID Namespacing in Service Management
Post #28: Marking Experimental OS Releases in /etc/os-release
Post #29: Decoding Capability Masks with systemd-analyze
Post #30: Investigating Passed SMBIOS Type #11 Data
Post #31: Initializing Partitions from Character Devices in repart.d/
Post #32: Entering Namespaces to Generate Stacktraces
Post #33: ID Mapped Mounts for Per-Service Directories
Post #34: A Daemon for systemd-sysupdate
Post #35: User Record Modifications without Administrator Consent in systemd-homed
Post #36: DNR DHCP Support
Post #37: Name Based AF_VSOCK ssh Access

I intend to do a similar series of serieses of posts for the next systemd release (v258), hence if you haven't left tech Twitter for Mastodon yet, now is the opportunity.

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