diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79593b967db..3fd42aa2820 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -68,7 +68,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe: semantics via posix_spawn(3), and it immediately execs a new internal binary, systemd-executor, that receives the configuration to apply via memfd, and sets up the process before exec'ing the target - executable. + executable. The systemd-executor binary is pinned by file descriptor + by each manager instance (system and users), and the reference is + updated on daemon-reexec - it is thus important to reexec all running + manager instances when the systemd-executor and/or libsystemd* + libraries are updated on the filesystem. * Most of the internal process tracking is being changed to use PIDFDs instead of PIDs when the kernel supports it, to improve robustness