Version 0.17.1

NEWS

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-== Version 0.17.1pre (?)
+== Version 0.17.1 (beta releas #2)
 
-* TBA...
+This is a 2nd beta release to follow up from 0.17.0. The changes are mostly minor; they include
+some bug fixes, and some behavioural changes, that are listed below; there are also new options
+for controlling logging.
 
-== Version 0.17.0
+New features:
+ * The console log level, and primary log facility (syslog or logfile) log level, can now be
+   specified via the new "--console-level" and "--log-level" options. See the documentation
+   in the dinit(8) man page. 
+
+Changes:
+ * The log file is opened immediately when starting even as a system manager, if possible. This
+   can make it easier to debug boot issues.
+ * The working directory for a service is now the directory containing the service description.
+   This can simplify specifying configuration files/script locations etc. Implemented by
+   Daniel Kolesa.
+ * The env-file (environment) path for a service is now relative to the service directory
+   containing the service description. Implemented by Daniel Kolesa.   
+ * Failure to open the env-file (environment) specified for a service is now treated as a hard
+   error (and will prevent a service starting). Implemented by Mobin Aydinfar.
+
+Fixes:
+ * A service that restarted too often, too quickly but which was a dependency of another service
+   also set to restart did not trigger the restart limit check; this has been fixed.
+ * Process services with the smooth-recovery option and with readiness notification did not check
+   that readiness notification was received after a smooth restart.
+ * Don't report ECONNRESET errors in control connections. These indicate that the client closed
+   the connection (possibly by terminating) and do not need to be reported. This prevents a
+   spurious warning on shutdown.
+ * Give an error when a service is specified as its own output consumer (avoids crash).
+   Thanks to Mobin Aydinfar. 
+ * A better effort to make the symlink created during a "dinitctl enable" operation actually point
+   to the enabled service. (This has no effect on operation).
+ * Various command line switches which require an additional argument (eg -d, -l) now check that
+   the argument supplied is now empty.
+ * configure script improvements/fixes by Mobin Aydinfar, and by Roze061
+
+== Version 0.17.0 (beta release #1)
 
 Thank you to several new sponsors, as well as existing sponsors, for supporting this release.
 Current sponsors include github users: brentfrow, brazeon, and q66 (Daniel Kolesa, author of

README.md

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 # Dinit
-v0.17.1pre (beta release)
+v0.17.1 (beta release)
 
 This is the README for Dinit, the service manager and init system. It is
 intended to provide an overview; For full documentation please check the manual pages. 

TODO

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-For version 0.17:
------------------
-* [DONE] Limit memory use by control connections. Currently clients have command responses queued without
-  limit; it would be better to stop accepting new commands once a certain amount of response is
-  buffered. 
-* [DONE] Externally triggered services (to represent devices etc). Such services will not reach STARTED
-  state unless the external trigger occurs (eg "dinitctl trigger servicename", details to be
-  determined).
-* [DONE] process input/output chaining (for logging); "log-type = pipe".
-* [DONE] Documentation for "log-type = buffer" and "log-type = pipe".
-* [DONE] dinitctl command to signal running service process.
-* [DONE] "offline" dinitctl enable/disable - i.e. enable or disable a service when dinit isn't running.
-
-
 For version 1.0 (release requirements):
 ---------------------------------------
 * Be able to boot and shutdown Linux and FreeBSD (or OpenBSD).
@@ -22,9 +8,6 @@ For version 1.0 (release requirements):
 For later (post 1.0):
 ---------------------
 * jails support
-* On linux when running with PID != 1, write PID to /proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid so
-  that we still receive SIGINT from ctrl+alt+del (must be done after /proc is
-  mounted, possibly could be left to a service script)
 * Proper support for socket activation?
 * Perhaps need a way to prevent script services from re-starting.
   (eg there's no need to mount filesystems twice; there might be various other
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 * When we take down a service or tty session, it would be ideal if we could kill
   the whole process tree, not just the leader process (need cgroups or pid
   namespace or other mechanism).
-* Allow running services with different resource limits, chroot, cgroups,
-  namespaces (pid/fs/uid), etc
+* Allow running services chroot, in namespaces (pid/fs/uid), etc
 * Support chaining service output to another process (logger) input; if the
   service dies the file descriptor of its stdout isn't closed and is reassigned
   when the service is restarted, so that minimal output is lost. [Done!]

build/version.conf

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 # Included from Makefiles.
-VERSION=0.17.1pre
-MONTH=August
+VERSION=0.17.1
+MONTH=November
 YEAR=2023