System Management Daemon v7

Device Switch! (The Tank v2!)

• SMD Updated to v7!
  • Removed Rotate module
  • Added Display Module
  • Added native SwayIPC communicator
  • Security Fixes
    • File and Permission checks!
  • Updated the Locker module to work with Sway
  • Updated the Dispatcher
    • Now can monitor Tasks and trigger them directly
    • Async Process monitor with optional function execution
  • Backups can now be queued
  • Backups now do the compress|encrypt in one step!
    • Tar is piped into Openssl
  • Backups can run commands before and after
    • After commands still work on fail
    • Pre commands can stop the Backup
    • Can be used to automount and unmount a device
  • Backup Plans can now have seperate dirs and upload targets
  • Broke out constants and utils
    • Defaults are their own file now
  • Fixed loader not working when dynamic directory is overritten
  • Updated the way we do logging
    • Removed redundent time and name when doing journald logging
  • Python formatting
  • Updated some module functions into a non-changing "lib.shared" directory
  • Moved USB resolving into the server-side for Hydra
  • Reduced needed thread count
  • Hydra device updates
    • Added the ability to add efi/pflash/flash/usb drive types
    • bios file, intirid and kernel support
    • Support for OSK for MacOS VMs
    • Fixes for TPM support
  • Better QMP and QEMUGA command handeling
  • Removed noVNC and Nginx support from Hydra
  • Better handeling of Lid detection
  • Better screen handeling
    • Allows for auto-detection and activation of new screens!
  • Added Bluetooth and Wireless radio change event triggers!
  • Faster handeling of requests of attributes with Flex for Message
  • Reduced the pack/unpack size of Messages
  • Added a payload limit 2^32-1 on Messages
• Many Config Changes and Updates
  • Network Manager
  • Bluetooth
    • Fixed audio through WirePlumber
    • Bluetooth Microphones work now!
  • Chromium Policy
  • WirePlumber works way better now
• Switch from X11 to Wayland (Sway)
• Switch from IPTables to NFTables
• Added faillock with proper config
• Updated taglines and copyright with new year changes
  • We've been at this for ~8 years!
• Added MoonlightSky theme!

v6 Update!

• Grammar fixes for error messages and logs
  • Also synced up thee working so its standard, and easier to read.
  • Spelling fixes
• Fixes for better font settings
• Updated firefox config
• Python coding refactor
  • Replaced "ignore_errors=False" with "errors=True"
• Added a timeout for the User Manager service (15s)
• Extended the watchdog timer to daemon threads.
• Fixed a bug where reloading the log level would NOT update the client log level.
• Updated handling of some paths to prevent any possible unwanted escaping.
• Disabled freezing the composer on lock
  • This causes issues with i3lock (makes it freeze)
• HYDRA updates!
  • Added SPICE support for all VMs! (enabled by default, can be disabled)
    • Including SPICE redirection of USB devices (up to 3 at once)!
    • Spice viewer by command line "hydra spice|s " or "hydra -cs "
  • Updated Hydra command line builder
    • Adds more options and new features to the VM (hopefully speed increases!)
  • Fixed and add QEMU Guest Agent integration
    • "hydra ip " or "hydra -I " now retries the VM IP Addresses(s) (If the QEMU GA is installed)
    • Fixed a timeout error with QMP commands
  • Changed the Hydra JSON format.
    • Example JSON and Schema can now be generated by Hydra "hydra example" or "hydra schema"
  • Extra custom VM arguments now require "hydra.unsafe" to be true.
  • Improved path handling of drives and disks
    • Cannot be executable
    • Cannot be SUID/GUID
    • Cannot be owned by root or privileged accounts

Version 5.5 Release!

Features and Performance Fixes:

• Yubikey support!
• Updates to some kernel tunables
• Small updates to Hydra USB and VM handling management.