build-sys: prepare release 41

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e8a0cfd11c5a220ab255a842f6bc4f3d3bb18b41..3ef4fbb8e8f20679573c2e44af789108daac1fcb 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 41:
           An existing /sbin/init symlink needs to be adapted with the
           package update.
 
+        * The code that loads kernel modules has been ported to invoke
+          libkmod directly, instead of modprobe. This means we do not
+          support systems with module-init-tools anymore.
+
+        * Watchdog support is now already useful, but still not
+          complete.
+
+        * A new kernel command line option systemd.setenv= is
+          understood to set system wide environment variables
+          dynamically at boot.
+
+        Contributions from: Benjamin Franzke, Kay Sievers, Lennart
+        Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt, Tom Gundersen,
+        William Douglas
+
 CHANGES WITH 40:
         * This is mostly a bugfix release
 
@@ -19,6 +34,10 @@ CHANGES WITH 40:
           it will execute. This is useful to minimize the time window
           with a generic argv[0], which makes bootcharts more useful
 
+        Contributions from: Alvaro Soliverez, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Kay
+        Sievers, Lennart Poettering, Michael Olbrich, Michal Schmidt,
+        Mike Kazantsev, Ray Strode
+
 CHANGES WITH 39:
         * This is mostly a test release, but incorporates many
           bugfixes.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d540d953953fcff93109ed84ba171f3d1aa1486d..40b4a31c6325435cd85a3d3869bf381afa2321f9 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.63)
 
-AC_INIT([systemd],[40],[systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org])
+AC_INIT([systemd],[41],[systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])