We are glad to announce version 1.0.7 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-1.0.7.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.7.tar.gz.sig Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: a892febba32995e55443698e13af8f38f1f8a938 shepherd-1.0.7.tar.gz 325a9b7581ee83a15115dfbfbcc247c9eb510f752549a23f3ae912a8ec727597 shepherd-1.0.7.tar.gz Authenticate the code by downloading the corresponding .sig file: gpg --verify shepherd-1.0.7.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-1.0.7.tar.gz.sig It is bit-for-bit reproducible from a checkout of the ‘v1.0.7’ tag of the Git repository. • Changes since version 1.0.6 ** New #:input-port parameter for ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ This allows users to specify what standard input to use for the new process instead of the default /dev/null. This is similar to the ‘StandardInput=’ directive in systemd unit files. ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ terminates process when log is not created (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/25>) ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ would mark the service as stopped when its #:log-file could not be created, but the corresponding process would keep running. This is now fixed: the process is terminated when its log file could not be created. ** Service being replaced does not leak control fiber upon respawn (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/28>) When a service with a previously-registered replacement was respawned, it would previously leave behind it a controlling fiber that would no longer be used. This would constitute a (small) memory leak, which could be noticeable on systems with long uptimes. ** Improve error reporting for wrong-type arguments (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/30>) It is not uncommon to mistakenly pass arguments of the wrong type to public procedures such as ‘make-forkexec-constructor’. They are now more nicely reported, both in the ‘shepherd’ log and on the output of the ‘herd’ command when applicable. ** Avoid Bash-specific idiom in ‘./configure’ and in tests (<https://codeberg.org/shepherd/shepherd/issues/31>) Use of ‘type -P’, which shells such as Dash do not support, has been replaced by the POSIXy ‘command -v’ in ./configure and in the test suite. ** Translations This version is fully translated in French, German, Romanian, Slovak, 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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