Same as every year, a lot has happened in the systemd project since last year's
ASG. We released multiple versions, packed with new components and features.
This talk will provide an overview of these changes, commenting on successes and
challenges, and a sneak peak at what lies ahead.

Let's have an open discussion with systemd developers who are at ASG and users in the audience. We will open with the developers saying what they plan to work on in the near future, and then allow questions / comments from the audience.

mkosi-initrd is a project to build initrds from normal system packages (rpms, debs). Initially separate, it now is part of mkosi — just another build stage. systemd uses mkosi for automated tests, and this now includes building an initrd and booting a VM with it, so such initrds are getting fairly wide testing, albeit in fairly narrow circumstances. The process of adoption of mkosi-initrd in distributions has been slow, but with an implementation natively in mkosi, the technical base is really good. What remains to be done to make this the default approach? Can Fedora 41 finally make this an option for users?