Systemd 250 released

Systemd 250 has been released. To say that the list of new features is long would be a severe understatement; the developers have clearly been busy.

systemd-homed now makes use of UID mapped mounts for the home areas. If the kernel and used file system support it, files are now internally owned by the "nobody" user (i.e. the user typically used for indicating "this ownership is not mapped"), and dynamically mapped to the UID used locally on the system via the UID mapping mount logic of recent kernels. This makes migrating home areas between different systems cheaper because recursively chown()ing file system trees is no longer necessary.

(See this article for a description of ID-mapped mounts).

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