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upstart 0.6.5 "Our last, best hope for victory"

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upstart
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0.6
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0.6.5
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Our last, best hope for victory
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
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Release notes 

Haven't quite followed the original release plan here, but I thought it was important to get a new Upstart release out sooner rather than later for the stable crowd. The main change here is that the libnih library has been separated out into its own source tree (you can get it from Launchpad), along with some merging of patches that had lived in the Ubuntu branch of Upstart for a while back into the trunk.

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 * Since libnih has been separated out into its own project, Upstart
   no longer includes its source and now uses the installed version by
   default.

 * The external nih-dbus-tool means that cross-compilation is trivial,
   the path to it may be overriden with NIH_DBUS_TOOL=... as an
   argument to configure. (Bug: #426740)

 * Developers may still build against a local libnih source tree by
   passing --with-local-libnih=/path/to/libnih to configure.

 * There is a new initctl "reload" command, with matching
   /sbin/reload symlink. This sends the SIGHUP signal to the running
   main process of the named job instance.

 * Event operator matches in jobs now support "!=" in addition to the
   usual "=", e.g.:

  start on net-device-added INTERFACE!=eth*

   (Bug: #513035)

 * Moved D-Bus system bus reconnection trigger from SIGHUP to SIGUSR1,
   since SIGHUP is already used for a forced configuration reload and
   causes Upstart to "forget" state.

 * Fixed bug where the default runlevel would be lost when an
   /etc/inittab file exists without an initdefault line. (Bug: #405847)

 * Fixed "Unhandled error" message from shutdown. (Bug: #426332)

 * Fixed "Unhandled error" assertion crash from Upstart child
   processes when failing to spawn a job. (Bug: #451917)

 * No longer holds /dev/console open, so the SAK SysRq key will not
   kill Upstart. (Bug: #486005)

 * Restored sync() call before reboot().

 * Added missing OPTIONS section to init(8) manpage. (Bug: #449883)

0 blueprints and 9 bugs targeted

Bug report Importance Assignee Status
451917 #451917 assert failure: Unhandled error from job_process_spawn (or similar) 4 Medium Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
486005 #486005 init: don't hold /dev/console open 4 Medium Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
405847 #405847 conf: DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL should not be assigned if nothing found from /etc/inittab 5 Low Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
426332 #426332 shutdown: doesn't handle error from sysv_change_runlevel 5 Low Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
426740 #426740 misc: cannot cross-compile due to nih-dbus-tool 5 Low Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
436758 #436758 nih: nih_alloc() doesn't align returned pointer for picky platforms like sparc 5 Low Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
449883 #449883 doc: init(8) manpage missing options 5 Low Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
429411 #429411 nih: Set __abort_msg when aborting 6 Wishlist Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
513035 #513035 init: support negation in env matches of job start/stop conditions 6 Wishlist Scott James Remnant (Canonical)  10 Fix Released
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