GNU Shepherd 0.8.1 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.8.1. This release
represents 16 commits by 4 people, bringing an important bug fix and
improvements to the code.


• 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 Guix, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution.

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


• Download

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.8.1.tar.gz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.8.1.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.8.1.tar.gz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.8.1.tar.gz.sig

Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

2964502388aa74207e6761c2ff77df69369738b0 shepherd-0.8.1.tar.gz
d32fe58694bb5350b5fc7285cf0ca0d9c7d24221aa5969d6c464ee3e3ac83f75 shepherd-0.8.1.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-0.8.1.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.openpgp.org \
--recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.16.2
Makeinfo 6.7
Help2man 1.47.13


• Changes since version 0.8.0 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

** Fix race condition that could lead shepherd to stop itself
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/40981>)
** Use ‘signalfd’ on GNU/Linux to improve efficiency and simplify code
** Outdated bits have been removed from the manual
** Updated translation: sv

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

Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.