[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.1 released

[Scott James Remnant]

To kick start the journey towards 0.10, here's a new release; it mostly
just updates the code to adopt the new allocator, which is a good first
step.

I hope to make regular releases throughout the 0.10 process, some of
them may be quite boring like this one; others may be so exciting,
you'll yearn for a boring one ;-)


0.5.1  2009-01-29  "Unexpected item in bagging area"

	* Major rewrite of the memory allocator used by Upstart; the
	  old allocator had several limitations and a few issues.
	  I must stress that none of the issues were known to affect
	  Upstart itself, however it pays to be prudent.

	* An issue where an object in a linked list would be freed after
	  the linked list was freed was fixed.  Upstart had some twisty
	  code logic to work around it, which has now been dropped.

	* An issue where a string could fail to be appended in an OOM
	  situation was fixed; if Upstart is affected, this could cause
	  D-Bus Introspection data to be corrupted.

	* An issue where multiple socket watches being freed could lead
	  to bad memory access has been fixed; Upstart 0.5.0 included a
	  temporary fix for the D-Bus connection handling, this replaces
	  that with a proper fix that also corrects the same problem for
	  timers and other main loop watches that Upstart was not believed
	  to be affected by.

	* Compiler warnings when compiling the test suite with -O1 and
	  above have been fixed where found.

	* A race condition in the test cases for a process stopping with
	  SIGSTOP has been fixed, this could sometimes cause this test
	  to hang.


The tarball can be found here:

        http://upstart.ubuntu.com/download/

For more information on upstart:

        http://upstart.ubuntu.com/


Scott
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