GNU Shepherd 0.3.1 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.3.1, a bug-fix
release.


• 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.

  Before this release, the GNU Shepherd was known as GNU dmd, the
  daemon-managing daemon.

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


• Download

  Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.3.1.tar.gz
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.3.1.tar.gz.sig

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

  Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

  7accbd52132f3c0cfbc02d8e0c9e80de  shepherd-0.3.1.tar.gz
  702b264487968ab524b542520abcd7e2b8954ff3  shepherd-0.3.1.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-0.3.1.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.gnupg.net --recv-keys 090B11993D9AEBB5

  and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
    Autoconf 2.69
    Automake 1.15
    Makeinfo 6.1
    Help2man 1.47.3


• Changes since version 0.3 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

  ** Process respawn limit is honored again (regression introduced in 0.3)
  ** ‘herd status SERVICE’ displays the last respawn time, if any
  ** (shepherd service) exports ‘&action-runtime-error’ and related bindings
  ** ‘mkdir-p’ adjusted to cope with GNU/Hurd file system behavior

Please report bugs to address@hidden
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Ludovic.

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