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5️⃣ Here's the 5th installment of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd.

Since its beginnings systemd has been a heavy user of the D-Bus IPC system. It provides D-Bus APIs, it calls D-Bus APIs, it schedules activation of the D-Bus broker, and even provides its own C D-Bus client library (sd-bus).

However, since early on our use of D-Bus was not without various major problems. One of the biggest goes something like this: