The headline feature of version 257 indicates to us that the repercussions of that hilarious incident are still being felt: The -purge switch of systemd-tmpfiles has been reworked to prevent excessive file deletion.
This change has been made to make it harder to accidentally delete too many files when using -purge incorrectly, reflecting a lesson learned from prior user errors.
With the new version, any tmpfiles.d/ files that will be used together with -purge need to be updated, marking a backwards-incompatible change developers were reluctant to make.
The developers have acknowledged the risks associated with the systemd-tmpfiles tool and are taking proactive steps in version 257 to protect users from catastrophic data loss.
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