The latest version of systemd looks to be a big one, with substantial new functionality. More to love – right?

Like it or not, systemd is the industry-standard init system these days. A new release is coming, and it's a big one.

Version 257 of systemd came out last December, and since the team tends to release new versions twice a year, you could interpret that as meaning that version 258 is slightly overdue. The reason could be that this is a major release, with a substantial amount of new functionality. We don't track these things especially closely, but The Reg FOSS desk has been reporting on new releases of the systemd suite since version 251 in early 2022, and off the cuff, we'd guess this is the biggest in that time.

Version 258-rc1, meaning release candidate 1, just appeared on GitHub, and the README file contains an impressive list of changes. Among the top ones are that it now needs at least Linux kernel 5.4, and support for cgroups version 1 is gone.

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