GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 releases

Yesterday, the GNU Daemon Shepherd community announced the release of GNU Shepherd 0.5.0.

GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is a service manager written in Guile and looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other init) with both a powerful and beautiful dependency-based system and a convenient interface.

The GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 contains new features and bug fixes and was bootstrapped with tools including:

• Autoconf 2.69
• Automake 1.16.1
• Makeinfo 6.5
• Help2man 1.47.6

Changes in GNU Shepherd 0.5.0

1. Services now have a ‘replacement’ slot
2. In this version, restarting a service will also restart its dependent services
3. When running as PID 1 on GNU/Linux, halt upon ctrl-alt-del
4. Actions can now be invoked on services which are not in the current running state
5. This version supports Guile 3.0 and users need to have Guile version>= 2.0.13
6. Unused runlevel code has been removed

Some of the updated translations in this version include, es, fr, pt_BR, sv

To know more about this release in detail, visit GNU official website.

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