We are glad to announce version 1.0.6 of the Shepherd, the next bug-fix release in the 1.0.x series.
Check out the web site to learn more about the Shepherd 1.0.x series: https://gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/ • About The Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile that looks after the herd of daemons running on the system. It can be used as an “init” system (PID 1) and also by unprivileged users to manage per-user daemons—e.g., gpg-agent, tor, privoxy. It supports several daemon startup mechanisms, including inetd, systemd-style socket activation, and timers. The Shepherd is configured in Guile Scheme and can be extended in the same language. It builds on a simple memory-safe and callback-free programming model. The Shepherd is developed jointly with the Guix project; it is used as the init system of Guix System and service manager of Guix Home. https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz.sig Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: f5296ae2b896c619c3856fcecadcf74ad8d9b1de shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz fc74dfda499a695e650fc5839d39ad538e2e323949b8904afcfaffa34171be33 shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz Authenticate the code by downloading the corresponding .sig file: gpg --verify shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz.sig The signing key can be retrieved with: gpg --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU keyring: wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify shepherd-1.0.6.tar.gz.sig It is bit-for-bit reproducible from a checkout of the ‘v1.0.6’ tag of the Git repository. • Changes since version 1.0.5 ** ‘shepherd’ reacts to deletion of its listening socket (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76998>) If the listening socket of ‘shepherd’ is deleted, it becomes impossible to control it. Thus, upon deletion, ‘shepherd’ tries to reopen it (when running as PID 1) or stops itself (when running as an unprivileged user). The latter behavior is useful when the listening socket is under /run/user/UID (the default) since that directory is usually deleted as soon as the user session terminates. ** ‘shepherd’ and ‘herd’ honor the ‘SHEPHERD_SOCKET’ environment variable (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/11>) Both ‘shepherd’ and ‘herd’ now honor the new ‘SHEPHERD_SOCKET’ environment variable, which specifies the socket file to listen to or to connect to when the ‘--socket’ option is omitted. The ‘reboot’ and ‘halt’ commands do not honor it as this usually makes little sense. ** ‘herd status’ shows clearer information for timers (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/6>) Previously, the output of ‘herd status TIMER’ would start with “It is running since…”, as is the case with other services. This message could be misinterpreted as meaning that the timer’s action is currently running, when it in fact referred to the fact that the timer was “active”, possibly just awaiting the next alarm. ** New Fish completion This version comes with completion of the ‘herd’ command for the Fish shell. ** Translations This version is fully translated in German, Romanian, Swedish, and Ukrainian; it is partially translated in several other languages. Check out https://translationproject.org/domain/shepherd.html to help translate it into your language! Please report bugs to <https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues>. Join guix-de...@gnu.org for discussions. Many thanks to everyone who reported bugs or contributed patches! Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.
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