A systemd bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELBA-2021-5202 Oracle Linux 8 systemd bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-5202

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-5202.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
systemd-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.i686.rpm
systemd-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-container-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.i686.rpm
systemd-container-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-devel-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.i686.rpm
systemd-devel-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-journal-remote-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-libs-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.i686.rpm
systemd-libs-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-pam-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-tests-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm
systemd-udev-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
systemd-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-container-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-devel-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-journal-remote-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-libs-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-pam-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-tests-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm
systemd-udev-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/systemd-239-51.0.1.el8_5.3.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[239-51.0.1.3]
- Disable unprivileged BPF by default [Orabug: 32870980]
- backport upstream pstore tmpfiles patch [Orabug: 31420486]
- udev rules: fix memory hot add and remove [Orabug: 31310273]
- fix to enable systemd-pstore.service [Orabug: 30951066]
- journal: change support URL shown in the catalog entries [Orabug: 30853009]
- fix to generate systemd-pstore.service file [Orabug: 30230056]
- fix _netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab (tony.l.lam@oracle.com) [Orabug: 25897792]
- set "RemoveIPC=no" in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 [Orabug: 22224874]
- allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 (Vaughan Cao) [Orabug: 18467469]
- add hv dynamic memory support (Jerry Snitselaar) [Orabug: 18621475]
- Backport upstream patches for the new systemd-pstore tool (Eric DeVolder) [OraBug: 30230056]

[239-51.3]
- Do not fail if the same alt. name is set again (#2030027)
- meson: avoid bogus meson warning (#2030027)
- meson: do not fail if rsync is not installed with meson 0.57.2 (#2030027)

[239-51.2]
- core: return true from cg_is_empty* on ENOENT (#2024903)

[239-51.1]
- sd-event: take ref on event loop object before dispatching event sources (#2024903)
- pid1: fix free of uninitialized pointer in unit_fail_if_noncanonical() (#2024903)
- Disable iptables for CI (#2024903)
- test-seccomp: accept ENOSYS from sysctl(2) too (#2024903)
- Disable libpitc to fix CentOS Stream CI (#2024903)
- test: accept that char device 0/0 can now be created witout privileges (#2024903)

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