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+        Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes:
+
+        * We intend to remove cgroup v1 support from systemd release after the
+          end of 2023. If you run services that make explicit use of cgroup v1
+          features (i.e. the "legacy hierarchy" with separate hierarchies for
+          each controller), please implement compatibility with cgroup v2 (i.e.
+          the "unified hierarchy") sooner rather than later. Most of Linux
+          userspace has been ported over already.
+
+        * We intend to remove support for split-usr (/usr mounted separately
+          during boot) and unmerged-usr (parallel directories /bin and
+          /usr/bin, /lib and /usr/lib, etc). This will happen in the second
+          half of 2023, in the first release that falls into that time window.
+          For more details, see:
+          https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-September/048352.html
+
+        * We intend to change behaviour w.r.t. units of the per-user service
+          manager and sandboxing options, so that they work without having to
+          manually enable PrivateUsers= as well, which is not required for
+          system units. To make this work, we will implicitly enable user
+          namespaces (PrivateUsers=yes) when a sandboxing option is enabled in a
+          user unit. The drawback is that system users will no longer be visible
+          (and appear as 'nobody') to the user unit when a sandboxing option is
+          enabled. By definition a sandboxed user unit should run with reduced
+          privileges, so impact should be small. This will remove a great source
+          of confusion that has been reported by users over the years, due to
+          how these options require an extra setting to be manually enabled when
+          used in the per-user service manager, as opposed as to the system
+          service manager. We plan to enable this change in the next release
+          later this year. For more details, see:
+          https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-December/048682.html
+
         Deprecations and incompatible changes:
 
         * systemctl will now warn when invoked without /proc/ mounted