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Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field

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The blog Linuxiac reports: A new systemd fork has appeared with a specific purpose: removing systemd's recently added support for storing a user's birth date in JSON user records. The fork, called Liberated systemd, published its first tagged release as v261 shortly after the official systemd 261 release. In other words, the fork follows upstream systemd while reverting the change that added the new optional birthDate field. Importantly, this is…

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Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field

Liberated systemd is a fork that reverts systemd’s new optional birthDate support in user records, citing privacy concerns.

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Linuxiac broke the news 2 days ago on Sunday, June 21, 2026.

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