Version 0.17.0 (beta!)

NEWS

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-== Version 0.17.0 (Upcoming)
+== Version 0.17.0
 
 Thank you to several new sponsors, as well as existing sponsors, for supporting this release.
 Current sponsors include github users: brentfrow, brazeon, and q66 (Daniel Kolesa, author of

README.md

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 # Dinit
-v0.17.0pre (alpha release #9)
+v0.17.0 (beta release)
 
 This is the README for Dinit, the service manager and init system. It is
 intended to provide an overview; For full documentation please check the manual pages. 
@@ -80,6 +80,19 @@ See [BUILD](BUILD) for information on how to build Dinit. See the [doc](doc)
 directory for information on design, code style, guidelines for contributions, and
 end-user-oriented documentation.
 
+Full documentation for Dinit is available in the form of manual (man) pages:
+- [dinit(8)](https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/man-pages-html/dinit.8.html) - the _dinit_ daemon
+- [dinit-service(5)](https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/man-pages-html/dinit-service.5.html) -
+  service description format and service settings
+- [dinitctl(8)](https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/man-pages-html/dinitctl.8.html) - _dinitctl_, a
+  utility to control the dinit daemon and manage services
+- [dinitcheck(8)](https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/man-pages-html/dinitcheck.8.html) - _dinitcheck_,
+  a utility to check service descriptions for errors/lint
+- [dinit-monitor(8)](https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/man-pages-html/dinit-monitor.8.html) -
+  _dinit-monitor_, a utility to monitor a service and run a command when service state changes
+
+A brief guide to some basic usage is included in the latter part of this README.
+
 
 ## Reporting issues
 

TODO

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 * [DONE] process input/output chaining (for logging); "log-type = pipe".
 * [DONE] Documentation for "log-type = buffer" and "log-type = pipe".
 * [DONE] dinitctl command to signal running service process.
-* [In progress] "offline" dinitctl enable/disable - i.e. enable or disable a service when dinit isn't running.
+* [DONE] "offline" dinitctl enable/disable - i.e. enable or disable a service when dinit isn't running.
 
 
 For version 1.0 (release requirements):
@@ -39,14 +39,11 @@ For later (post 1.0):
 * When we take down a service or tty session, it would be ideal if we could kill
   the whole process tree, not just the leader process (need cgroups or pid
   namespace or other mechanism).
-* Allow logging tasks to memory (growing or circular buffer) and later
-  switching to disk logging (allows for filesystem mounted readonly on boot).
-  But perhaps this really the responsibility of another daemon.
 * Allow running services with different resource limits, chroot, cgroups,
   namespaces (pid/fs/uid), etc
 * Support chaining service output to another process (logger) input; if the
   service dies the file descriptor of its stdout isn't closed and is reassigned
-  when the service is restarted, so that minimal output is lost.
+  when the service is restarted, so that minimal output is lost. [Done!]
   - even more, it would be nice if a single logger process could be responsible
     for receiving output from multiple services. This would require some kind of
     protocol for passing new output descriptors to the logger (for when a

build/version.conf

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 # Included from Makefiles.
-VERSION=0.17.0pre
-MONTH=October
-YEAR=2022
+VERSION=0.17.0
+MONTH=August
+YEAR=2023