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3️⃣ Here's the 3rd installment of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd.

So after the relatively heavy fare of the 2nd episode, here's something to digest more easily.

Since a while systemd has been showing nice terminal progress bars when doing certain slow operations (for example, when systemd-repart initializes a disk). With v257 we go one step further with this. Whenever we show the progress bar we'll now also issue certain terminal ANSI sequences …