We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.3.2, a bug-fix
release.


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

  Before this release, the GNU Shepherd was known as GNU dmd, the
  daemon-managing daemon.

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


• Download

  Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.3.2.tar.gz
    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-0.3.2.tar.gz.sig

  Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
    http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

  Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

  03d168697d9676145e57c28728ca1316  shepherd-0.3.2.tar.gz
  fc3a8a0b5a3b208b45470e222809c31277f9df73  shepherd-0.3.2.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-0.3.2.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 keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

  and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
    Autoconf 2.69
    Automake 1.15
    Makeinfo 6.3
    Help2man 1.47.4


• Changes since version 0.3.1 (excerpt from the NEWS file)

  ** ‘herd status’ displays a bullet list
  ** No longer crash when ‘enable’ & co. are passed a wrong argument number
     (<http://bugs.gnu.org/24684>)
  ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ has a new #:pid-file-timeout parameter
  ** Processes that failed to create their PID file are now killed
  ** .go files are now installed in LIBDIR/guile/2.X/site-ccache
  ** Build system supports compilation with Guile 2.2

Please report bugs to bug-guix@gnu.org.
Join guix-devel@gnu.org and gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org for discussions.

Ludovic.