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4.2
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The "Try before you buy!" release. For more information, see this blog post.

Changes

  • Support for non-root users to use initctl, e.g. group wheel
  • Support for new libite (-lite) header namespace
  • RTC plugin now reset an invalid RTC time to the kernel default time, 2000-01-01 00:00, prevents errors and is less crazy than some systems coming with with <= Jan 1, 1970
  • urandom plugin now use RNDADDENTROPY ioctl to seed kernel rng, incrementing entropy count. Also, 32 kiB instead of 512 bytes are now saved (and restored) on reboot. This should greatly improve reliability of systems with none or poor HWRNG
  • Kernel logging to console (loglevel >= 7, debug, when quiet mode is not used) is now honored by Finit, regardless of the finit.debug command line option
  • Reduced default log level from LOG_NOTICE to LOG_INFO
  • Wrapped all calls to mount(2) to add logging in case of failure
  • New configure options to control fastboot (no fsck) and fsck fix options, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Support for overriding default /etc/nologin file with an external #define, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Support for overriding default /var/run/dbus/pid file with an external #define, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Support for more service options to control respawn behavior of crashing services, by Robert Andersson and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Support for initctl ident [NAME] which lists all instances of NAME, or all enabled system run/tasks and services
  • Show number of total restarts and current respawn count for a service in initctl status foo
  • Crashing services no longer have the crash/restart counter reset as soon as they have stabilized. Instead, a background timer will slowly (every 300 sec) age (decrement) the counter. This will still catch services that "rage quit", but also those that crash after a longer period of activity

Fixes

  • Fix #180: user managed (manual:yes) services accidentally started by initctl reload, regression introduced in Finit v4.0
  • Fix #181: lots of typos all over the tree, by David Yang, Debian
  • Fix #187: fix typos, incl. small cleanup, in doc/bootstrap.md
  • Fix #188: support running on kernels that do not have cgroups v2. When this is detect, all functions related to cgroups support in Finit are disabled, except the .conf file parser. Hence, you may get parse error if you have invalid cgroup configuration in your Finit .conf files
  • Fix #197: initctl status foo now shows a focused overview of all matching instances; foo:1, foo:2 -- if only one instance matches the command line argument, or if onle one instance exists, the detailed view is shown, as before
  • Fix #198: a few typos found by Tim Gates
  • Fix #199: avoid using C++ reserved keywords
  • Fix #201: memory leak in usr condition plugin, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Fix #203: ensure all filesystems listed in /proc/mounts are properly unumounted on shutdown/reboot, by Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
  • Fix #210: resizing terminal (smaller) after boot causes empty lines to be inserted between boot progress
  • Fix #211: drop hard-coded 32 character limit in getty, now reads _SC_LOGIN_NAME_MAX from sysconf(3)
  • Fix #212: service PID file lost after inictl reload, visible from the output from initctl status foo
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