GNU Shepherd 0.4.0 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.4.0, a release
containing new features and bug fixes.

• About

The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd is a service manager written
in Guile that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a
replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any
other init) with a dependency-based system with a convenient
interface. The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.) It is
written in Guile Scheme, and is configured and extended using Guile.

The GNU Shepherd is developed jointly with the GNU Guix project; it is
used as the init system of GuixSD, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution.

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/


• Download

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.4.0.tar.gz
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 hashes:

35bfe5a8355e7a44c28b96010c45f1aef36fb189 shepherd-0.4.0.tar.gz
16f1da9305dad0abeb66d1707a2f12c196432b13b7cddfb56a1d4564fbd2f5d1 shepherd-0.4.0.tar.gz

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify shepherd-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.16
Makeinfo 6.5
Help2man 1.47.5


• Changes since version 0.3.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

** When running as non-root, keep track of forked processes
** When running as root, log to /dev/log (syslogd) or /dev/kmsg by default
** ‘exec-command’ opens log file in append mode
** Add native language support (5 languages currently supported)
** ‘log-output-port’ is now a SRFI-39 parameter
** New ‘make-shepherd-output-port’ in lieu of ‘shepherd-output-port’
** Fix non-deterministic test suite issues


Please report bugs to bug-***@gnu.org.
Join guix-***@gnu.org and gnu-system-***@gnu.org for discussions.

Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.