[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

[Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)]

Why the move to GPLv3. I am not sure how many in the community see this
as a problem, but we do.
As a policy many don't use GPLv3 software because its not viewed as
industry friendly. 

I don't want to get into the discussion of whether GPLv3 is or is not
industry friendly.

Moreover, if you plan on Upstart being truly widely used and a true
replacement for SysV Init, it should match the Linux Kernel Licensing
whatever that might be. So that it really is part of the base core Linux
infrastructure that  it is convenient for everyone to use together.

I notice that Fedora, Redhat and quite a few other distros also package
upstart as part of their distros and many of these distros as use by the
industry.

The core set of components have so far been GPLv2. 

Sarvi    

-----Original Message-----
From: upstart-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:upstart-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Scott James
Remnant
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:06 AM
To: Upstart Development
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

And positively frigidly far away from the heels of 0.3.10 comes the 0.5
series release that includes the same bug fix, along with a whole heap
of other changes - mostly D-Bus, but there's a few other bug fixes in
there too.


0.5.2  2009-06-17  "Something, something, something, D-Bus"

	* The licence for Upstart has been updated to GNU GPL v3.

	* Overhaul of the automatically generated D-Bus bindings code,
	  fixing many issues with memory leaks, inconsistent return
values
	  and loss of method returns after the method has taken place.

	* D-Bus 1.2.4 is now required, and must be patched to fix
	  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22316

	* D-Bus Job objects now have "name", "description", "author"
	  and "version" properties.

	* D-Bus Instance object now have "name", "goal" and "state"
	  properties.

	* initctl now obtains the name properties for display instead of
	  printing the mangled object path component.  (Bug: #299290)

	* D-Bus configuration updated now that the daemon is fixed to be
	  deny-by-default, and updated to avoid bare "send_interface"
	  stanzas.  (Bug: #323021)

	* Fixed assertion caused by the post-start or pre-stop scripts
          exiting after the main process of a respawning job had exited
          (Bug: #381048)

	* The /proc filesystem need not be mounted if the "oom_adj"
	  configuration stanza is not used.  (Bug: #259801)

	* Overly large values to configuration stanzas are now caught
	  and rejected.  (Bug: #340134)

	* The --enable-compiler-warnings configure option has been
	  extended to add -Wextra, but turns off a few of the more
extreme
	  warnings

	* GNU C Library v2.4 (or backported inotify support) is required

	* pkg-config 0.22 is now required, it probably was anyway but we
	  now explicitly check for it.

	* Dependency on Python for the D-Bus binding tool has been
dropped
	  and replaced with a dependency on expat 2.0.0


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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