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.

  • udc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    24 hours ago

    I don’t understand. What’s systemd got anything to do with age?

    • urandom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      20 hours ago

      As per the linked ticket, they are a story for a handful of user data. An XDG portal needs to store this stuff, and they are already integrated, so this is just to accommodate the other project.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      65·
      24 hours ago

      Systemd has to do EVERYTHING

      They drop a systemd-kerneld one day and drop the Linux bit altogether