Subj : Systemd v259 released
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From : LWN.net
Date : Thu Dec 18 2025 15:00:08

Systemd v259 released

Date:
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:48:32 +0000

Description:
Systemd
v259 has been released. Notable changes include a new
" --empower " option for run0 that provides elevated
privileges to a user without switching to root, ability to propagate a
user's home directory into a VM with systemd-vmspawn , and
more. Support for System V service scripts has been deprecated, and
will be removed in v260. See the release notes for other changes,
feature removals, and deprecated features.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1051163/


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