finit/NEWS.md

NEWS

1.10 (2014-11-27)

Major bug fix release.

• Project now relies on static code analysis from Coverity, so this release contains many serious bug fixes.
• Fix serious file descriptor and memory leaks in the following functions. In particular the leaks in run_interactive() are very serious since that function is called every time a service is started and/or restarted! For details, see the GIT log:
  • helpers.c:run()
  • helpers.c:run_interactive()
  • helpers.c:set_hostname()
  • helpers.c:procname_kill()
• svc.c:svc_start(): Fix swapped arguments to dup2() and add close(fd) to prevent descriptor leak.
• svc.c:svc_start(): Fix out of bounds write to local stack variable, wrote off-by-one outside array.
• Several added checks for return values to mknod(), mkdir(), remove(), etc.
• Convert to use Markdown for README, NEWS and TODO.
• Serious update to README and slight pruning of finished TODO items.

1.9 (2014-04-21)

• Bug fixes, code cleanup
• Add support for an include directive to .conf files
• Fallback to /bin/sh if user forgets tty setting
• Handle SIGHUP from service callback properly when switching runlevel
• Initial support for restarting lost services during norespwan
• Misc. major (memleak) and minor fixes and additions to libite/lite.h

1.8 (2013-06-07)

• Support for runlevels, with a bootstrap runlevel 'S'
• Support for saving previous and current runlevel to UTMP
• Support for new finit.conf commands: run, task, and runlevel
• Support for tty and console commands in finit.conf, like services but for launching multiple getty logins
• New tty plugin to monitor TTYs coming and going, like USB TTYs
• Bugfixes to libite

1.7 (2012-10-08)

• Show __FILE__ in _d() debug messages, useful for plugins with similarily named callbacks. Also, only in debug mode anyway
• Make sure to cleanup recorded PID when a service is lost. Required by service plugins for their callbacks to work.
• Bugfix: Do not free() static string in finit.conf parser
• Only clear screen when in verbose mode. Maybe this should be removed altogether?

1.6 (2012-10-06)

• Skip . and .. in plugin loader and display error on failed plugins
• Support for overriding /etc/finit.d with runparts DIR in finit.conf
• Revoke support for starting services not starting with a slash.
• Prevent endless restart of non-existing services in finit.conf
• Support for sysvinit style startstop scripts in /etc/finit.d
• Minor fix to alsa-utils plugin to silence on non-existing cards

1.5 (2012-10-03)

• Use bootmisc plugin to setup standard FHS 2.3 structure in /var
• Added FLOG_WARN() syslog macro, for plugins
• Add plugin dependency resolver. Checks plugin_t for .depends

1.4 (2012-10-02)

• Fix I/O plugin watcher and load plugins earlier for a new hook
• Start refactoring helpers.c into a libite.so (-lite). This means other user space applications/daemons can make use of the neat toolbox available in finit
• Use short-form -s/-w -u to work with BusyBox hwclock as well
• Use RTLD_GLOBAL flag to tell dynamic loader to load dependent .so files as well. Lets other plugins use global symbols.
• Greatly simplify svc hook for external plugins and cleanup plugin API.
• And more ... see the GIT log for more details.

1.3 (2012-09-28)

• Cleanup public plugin API a bit and add new pid/pidfile funcs
• Add plugin hook to end of service startup
• Remove finit.h from svc.h, plugins should not need this.
• Move utility macros etc. to helpers.h
• Make finit.h daemon internal, only
• Move defines of FIFO, conf and rcS.d to Makefile => correct paths
• Add support for installing required headers in system include dir
• Better support for distributions and packagers with install-exec, install-data, and install-dev targets in Makefile. Useful if you want to call targets with different $DESTDIR!
• Makefile fixes for installation, paths encoded wrong
• Strip binaries + .so files, support for $(CROSS) toolchain strip
• Default install is now to /sbin/finit and /usr/
• Note change in $PLUGIN_DIR environemnt variable to $plugindir

1.2 (2012-09-27)

• Fix installation paths encoded in finit binary
• Update README with section on building and enviroment variables

1.1 (2012-09-27)

• Build fixes for ARM eabi/uClibc
• Rename signal.[ch]-->sig.[ch] to avoid name clash w/ system headers

1.0 (2012-09-26)

• New plugin based system for all odd extensions
• New service monitor that restarts services if they die
• New maintainer at GitHub http://github.com/troglobit/finit
• Add standard LICENSE and AUTHORS files
• New focus: embedded systems and small headless servers

0.6 (2010-06-14)

• don't start consolekit manually, dbus starts it (rtp)
• unmount all filesystems before rebooting
• disable USE_VAR_RUN_RESOLVCONF for Mandriva
• unset terminal type in Mandriva before running X
• remove extra sleep in finit-alt before calling services.sh (caio)

0.5 (2008-08-21)

• add option to start dbus and consolekit before the X server
• finit-alt listens to /dev/initctl to work with reboot(8) (smurfy)
• write runlevel to utmp, needed by Printerdrake (Pascal Terjan)
• fix ownership of /var/run/utmp (reported by Pascal Terjan)
• remove obsolete code to load AGP drivers
• conditional build of /etc/resolveconf/run support
• add support to /var/run/resolvconf in Mandriva (blino)

O.4 (2008-05-16)

• default username for finit-alt configurable in Makefile
• create loopback device node in finit-alt (for squashfs)
• add option to use built-in run-parts instead of /bin/run-parts
• ignore signal instead of setting to an empty handler (Metalshark)
• handle pam_console permissions in finit-alt for Mandriva
• add services.sh example and nash-hotplug patch for Mandriva
• mount /proc/bus/usb in Mandriva
• add runtime debug to finit-alt if finit_debug parameter is specified
• read configuration from /etc/finit.conf
• run getty with openvt on the virtual terminal

0.3 (2008-02-23)

• Change poweroff method to reboot(RB_POWER_OFF) (Metalshark)
• Remove duplicate unionctl() reimplementation error
• Fix string termination in path creation
• Mount /var/lock and /var/run as tmpfs

0.2 (2008-02-19)

• replace system("touch") with touch() in finit-mod (Metalshark)
• disable NO_HCTOSYS by default to match stock Eeepc kernel
• drop system("rm -f") to clean /tmp, its a fresh mounted tmpfs
• write ACPI sleep state to /sys/power/state instead of /proc/acpi/sleep (Metalshark)
• use direct calls to set loopback instead of system("ifconfig")
• replace system("cat") and system("dd") with C implementation
• moved finit-mod and finit-alt helpers to helpers.c
• replace system("echo;cat") to draw shutdown splash with C calls

0.1 (2008-02-14)

• initial release