• Last week, systemd v257 was released and a series of posts about its key new features was posted on Mastodon under the [#systemd257] hash tag.
• There are 37 posts in total, covering various aspects such as fully locked accounts with systemd-sysusers, combined signed PCR and locally managed PCR policies for disk encryption, progress indication via terminal ANSI sequence, multi-profile UKIs, new APIs in libsystemd, querying for passwords in user scope, secure attention key logic in systemd-logind, and many more.
• The author intends to do a similar series of posts for the next systemd release (v258).