cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62271427

For 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.

The current release, from some hours ago, is v260.1. I see that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) just updated to v255.

  • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    The law - as it is now - doesn’t require any actual verification, it just wants OS to require users to provide a birth date

    And it didn’t require any verification yesterday, yet it requires one today. Requirements can change.