userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
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Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along…

Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    6 days ago

    Nobody is forking systemd, especially over something like this. People have no idea how much work it is to maintain software like this.

      • idriss@lemmy.ml
        31·
        5 days ago

        with this PR merged, I am already reading guides on how to replace systemd, that shit is defective by design and this PR just proves that systemd is another corpo bullshit