GNU Shepherd 0.6.0 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.6.0, a release
containing new features and bug fixes.

• 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 Guix, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution.

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


• Download

  Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.0.tar.gz
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig

  Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.0.tar.gz
    https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/shepherd/shepherd-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig

  Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

  9be871aff2c2d8ad8068714878eee6acee5cd35b  shepherd-0.6.0.tar.gz
  51a816cc145ec38866a9dc3b7e64c52ef9db1c631a8dbe50be5a98ba07e242fb  
shepherd-0.6.0.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-0.6.0.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 pool.sks-keyservers.net \
        --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

  and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
    Autoconf 2.69
    Automake 1.16.1
    Makeinfo 6.5
    Help2man 1.47.8


• Changes since version 0.5.0 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

  ** Services can now be “one-shot” (see the manual for details)
  ** ‘shepherd’ deletes its socket file upon termination
  ** ‘herd stop S’ is no longer an error when S is already stopped
  ** ‘herd’ exits with non-zero when executing an action that fails
  ** ‘shepherd’ ignores reboot(2) errors when running in a container
  ** Translation of error messages has been fixed
  ** New translation: ta (Tamil)
  ** Updated translations: da, es, fr, pt_BR, sv, ta, uk, zh_CN


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Ludovic, on behalf of the Shepherd herd.

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