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"textContent": "submitted by pglpm to linux\n13 points | 3 comments\n\nFor those interested, the Systemd release that’s planned to include the controversial ‘birthDate’ field to user records, complying with age-verification laws, is _v261_ (see ‘milestone’ in the pull request). This release seems to be planned for May.\n\nThe current release, from some hours ago, is v260.1. I see that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) just updated to v255.",
"title": "FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field."
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