Mastodon Stories for systemd v262

On September 22 we released systemd v262 into the wild.

In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd262 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read up, here's a list of all 35 posts:

Post #1: Word List Based Hostname Patterns
Post #2: Extended Attributes on Socket Inodes
Post #3: Varlink Socket Tagging & varlinkctl list-sockets
Post #4: Machine Tags from udev/hwdb
Post #5: systemd-sysupdate's installdb
Post #6: Signed systemd-report Reports
Post #7: CLI Introspection via --introspect-cli
Post #8: fscrypt v2 Support in systemd-homed
Post #9: Read-Only ESP Support in systemd-boot/systemd-stub
Post #10: Recovery Key Enrollment on First Boot & Varlink IPC for systemd-cryptenroll
Post #11: Rogue TPM Protection for LUKS Enrollments
Post #12: Encrypted + Verity Protected DDIs
Post #13: FONT_SCALE= in /etc/vconsole.conf
Post #14: Static, Single-Binary Service Manager Builds
Post #15: Intel TDX CoCo Support in systemd-vmspawn
Post #16: Varlink IPC for systemd-sysinstall
Post #17: systemd-report as Varlink Service & New Metrics
Post #18: Sessions as Inhibitors via pam_systemd's inhibit=
Post #19: NvPCR Rework
Post #20: bootctl link-auto
Post #21: systemd-sysupdate Completion Hooks
Post #22: /etc/clonetab
Post #23: Atomically Enqueuing Multiple Jobs
Post #24: Following the Journal via Varlink
Post #25: Coredumps via the Kernel's New Socket Protocol
Post #26: Hardware-Suggested systemd-sysupdate Features/Components
Post #27: ActivatingConcurrencyMax=
Post #28: Restarting/Reloading Units on confext/sysext Application
Post #29: System Credentials for CoCo VMs in systemd-vmspawn
Post #30: Persisting the TPM EK
Post #31: systemd.firstboot=headless
Post #32: RestartRandomizedDelaySec=
Post #33: systemd.credentials_boot_policy=
Post #34: systemctl kexec --kernel-cmdline-reuse
Post #35: PCR Signature Policyrefs

I intend to do a similar series of serieses of posts for the next systemd release (v263), hence if you haven't left tech Twitter for Mastodon yet, now is the opportunity. My series for v263 will begin in a few weeks most likely, under the #systemd263 hash tag.

In case you are interested, here is the corresponding blog story for systemd v261, here for v260, here for v259, here for v258, here for v257, and here for v256.

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