--- title: systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS... description: systemd 261-rc1 introduces several notable features: systemd-sysinstall, a textual OS installer wrapping systemd's partitioning and credential management;... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/systemd-261-rc1-released-with-os-installer-imds-subsystem-new-storagectl-7dcylilkv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl | daily.dev og:description: systemd 261-rc1 introduces several notable features: systemd-sysinstall, a textual OS installer wrapping systemd's partitioning and credential management;... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/systemd-261-rc1-released-with-os-installer-imds-subsystem-new-storagectl-7dcylilkv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7DCylILKV.png og:image:alt: systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary systemd 261-rc1 introduces several notable features: systemd-sysinstall, a textual OS installer wrapping systemd's partitioning and credential management; systemd-imdsd, an Instance Metadata Service daemon with a hardware database for recognizing major public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, etc.); a new storagectl CLI for unified storage resource management; systemd-tpm2-swtpm.service for software TPM fallback; PID1 support for Linux kernel Live Update Orchestrator and Kernel Handover; new CPUSetPartition= and RestrictFileSystemAccess= unit settings; and DefaultMemoryZSwapWriteback= for system-wide Zswap configuration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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