We are glad to announce version 1.0.3 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-1.0.3.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.3.tar.gz.sig Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: 705a13b4a5b022bd117bb015fed2804e9a32af58 shepherd-1.0.3.tar.gz 40e779eb5ffd76fbe85cde9533d37f0da980462853e01974816093f5510bf3d8 shepherd-1.0.3.tar.gz Authenticate the code by downloading the corresponding .sig file: gpg --verify shepherd-1.0.3.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-1.0.3.tar.gz.sig It is bit-for-bit reproducible from a checkout of the ‘v1.0.3’ tag of the Git repository. • Changes since version 1.0.2 ** ‘spawn-command’ now honors #:log-file The ‘spawn-command’ procedure now accepts a #:log-file argument, just like ‘fork+exec-command’. ** New ‘--syslog’ option of ‘shepherd’ This option forces shepherd to write its output to syslog (the /dev/log socket by default). This is already the case when shepherd runs as root so this option only makes sense for non-root shepherd instances, and its primary purpose is testing. ** Always decode client commands as UTF-8 (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76244>) Previously client commands send by ‘herd’ would be decoded according to the locale encoding of the ‘shepherd’ process, which could be ASCII; now they’re always decoded as UTF-8, as intended. ** Internal logging is always UTF-8 (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76244>) The so-called “service output port”, where internal logging from shepherd itself goes, is now always UTF-8-encoded (instead of following locale encoding). ** Log output missing a newline is preserved (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76243>) It used to be that service output missing a final newline would not be logged, for example when running “herd spawn transient -- echo -n aaaaa”. This is now fixed. ** Default generated configuration file updated to match current interface (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76403>) The ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm generated when it doesn’t already exist would use deprecated and removed interfaces. This is now fixed. ** Inhibit service respawn during shutdown (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76338>) Until now, the ability to respawn services remained functional during shutdown (with ‘herd stop root’, ‘reboot’, etc.). This caused troubles on Guix System where the ‘user-processes’ service terminates all processes when it is stopped and which, as a consequence, could lead shepherd to respawn services, even though it was being shut down. ** Tolerate slight delays when waiting for a timer event (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76516>) Previously, timers could occasionally get slightly more than a 2-second delay, which would lead them to skip their deadline (with a message saying “resuming from sleep state?”). Delay tolerance has been increased. ** Silence warning about ‘environ’ when using Guile 3.0.10 (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76343>) When using Guile 3.0.10, commands such as ‘shepherd --help’ would print an erroneous warning about ‘environ’ being called from a multi-threaded context. This is now fixed. ** Correctly report the exit status of processes terminated early (<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76790>) For services using ‘fork+exec-command’, there used to be a small window after creating the process and before monitoring it during which process termination would be mishandled: ‘herd status SERVICE’ would report that the process exited successfully, whether or not this was the case. This is now fixed. ** Several flaky tests have been made more robust Several tests were “flaky”: they would fail randomly, typically when run on loaded or slow machines. The underlying race conditions were identified and fixed. ** Translations This version is fully translated in German, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian; it is partially translated in seven other languages. Check out https://translationproject.org/domain/shepherd.html to help translate it into your language! Please report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org. Join guix-devel@gnu.org for discussions. Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.
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