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4.3-rc1
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Critical bug fix release. If you run a 32-bit target with GLIBC 2.34 you need to upgrade!

Note: system verbosity on console at start and shutdown has been
increased. Now the output of all commands is logged to the
system logger, for early services /dev/kmsg is used.

Also: please notice the updated support for enabling and disabling
kernel and Finit debug messages on the system console. Very
useful when debugging either of them, e.g., a kernel module.
For details, see cmdline.md.

Changes

  • Loading modules no longer shows arguments in progress output
  • Warning messages in progress output now in yellow, not red, issue #214
  • initctl, new command line option -v,--version for ease of use
  • Extended environment variables for pre/post scripts, issue #189
  • New condition done for run task, issue #207 by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Refactor parts of shutdown and reboot sequence for PREEMPT-RT kernels, by Robert Andersson, Mathias Thore, and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Conditions for run/task/sysv status, e.g. run/foo/success and task/bar/failure. Issue #232, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • initctl support for sending signals to services, by Jörgen Sigvardsson, issue #225
  • [WARN] messages on console now printed in yellow, issue #214
  • Network services now also stopped when going to runlevel 6 (reboot), not just runlevel 0 (shutdown) or 1 (single-user)
  • When ifup is missing on the system, bring at least lo up at boot
  • Log output from ifup -a (and ifdown -a), to syslog
  • Avoid blocking PID 1 when starting SysV init scripts
  • Allow custom pid: for SysV init scripts
  • Document supported types of forking/non-forking services
  • Auto-detect running in some common forms of containers
  • Simplify shutdown/reboot when running in a container
  • Log to stderr when running in a container w/o syslog daemon
  • Add support for type:forking to services, already supported but with a very difficult pid: syntax. Documentation updated

Fixes

  • Fix nasty 32/64-bit alignment issue between finit and its plugins, applicable to 32-bit targets with GLIBC 2.34 and later. External plugins must make sure to use, at least: -D_TIME_BITS=64
  • Fix #215: disable cgroup support at runtime if kernel lacks support or does not have the required controllers (cpu)
  • Fix #217: iwatcher initialization issue, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Fix #218: initctl matches too many services, by Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Fix #219: not all filesystems unmounted at shutdown, by Ming Liu, Mathias Thore, and Robert Andersson, Atlas Copco
  • Fix #226: initctl shows wrong PID for crashing services
  • Fix #227: reboot stalls if process stopped with [WARN]
  • Fix #233: initctl shows wrong status for run/task, by Sergio Morlans and Ming Liu, Atlas Copco
  • Fix start/stop of SysV init scripts
  • Fix call to swapoff at shutdown, does not support -e flag
  • Fix suspend to RAM issue. Previously reboot(RB_SW_SUSPEND) was used, now the modern /sys/power/state API is used instead.
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