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an SELinux policy update is required.
(See e.g. https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/234.)
+ * When unit files are loaded from disk, previously systemd would
+ sometimes (depending on the unit loading order) load units from the
+ target path of symlinks in .wants/ or .requires/ directories of other
+ units. This meant that unit could be loaded from different paths
+ depending on whether the unit was requested explicitly or as a
+ dependency of another unit, not honouring the priority of directories
+ in search path. It also meant that it was possible to successfully
+ load and start units which are not found in the unit search path, as
+ long as they were requested as a dependency and linked to from
+ .wants/ or .requires/. The target paths of those symlinks are not
+ used for loading units anymore and the unit file must be found in
+ the search path.
+
* A new service type has been added: Type=exec. It's very similar to
Type=simple but ensures the service manager will wait for both fork()
and execve() of the main service binary to complete before proceeding