ChangeLog

needrestart 3.7

  * Features:
    - [Interp] Add optional persistent cache support for perl scanning.
      (github pull request #282 by Jean-Marc Saffroy @saffroy)
    - [Core] Add OpenMetrics time series output.
      (github pull request #308 by Gabriel Filion @lelutin)

  * Changes:
    - [Core] Replace `which` by `command -v`.
      (github pull request #254 by @a1346054)
    - [Core] Ignore USBGuard.
      (github pull request #257 by Christoph Anton Mitterer @calestyo)
    - [Core] Do not ignore dhclient but prevent restart ifup automaticly.
      (github pull request #262 by @anarcat)
    - [Core] Add greetd to the list of restart exclusions.
      (github pull request #266 by Iván Zaera @ivan-zaera)
    - [Core] Support dbus replacements.
      (github pull request #276 by @Vladimir-csp)
    - [Core] Apply override_rc deterministically.
      (github pull request #280 by Corey Hickey @bugfood)
    - [uCode] Test vendor id before check for Intel ucode.
      (github pull request #284 by FRITZ|FRITZ @fritz-fritz)
    - [uCode] Fix AMD ucode checking in non-debug mode.
      (github pull request #288 by @anarcat)
    - [uCode] Mark unavailable ucode as CURRENT.
      (github pull request #290 by @anarcat)
    - [Kernel] Increase read size for version strings.
      (github pull request #293 by @jaycci)
    - [README] Add RPi5 details.
      (github pull request #298 by @Opa-)
    - [README] Add RPi1 details.
      (github pull request #304 by @juadde)
    - [uCode] Add an option to print uCode hints w/o acknowledgement.
      (github pull request #307 by Adam @adsr)

  * Fixes:
    - [README] Prevent shell expansion in example.
      (github pull request #252 by David Taylor @dtaylor84)
    - [Core] Fix VM detection regression introduced in f54d85c.
      (github pull request #248 by @zxyrepf)
    - [uCode] Fix uninitialized value regression.
      (github pull request #273 by Stefan Bühler @stbuehler)
    - [uCode] Fix AMD uCode check in non-debug mode.
      (github pull request #278 by Jan-Philipp Litza @jplitza)
    - [CONT] Fix always ignoring lxc/lxd instances.
      (github issue #245 by Mitsuya Shibata @m-shibata)
    - [Core] Fix shellcheck issues.
      (github issue #300 by Eisuke Kawashima @e-kwsm)
    - [Kernel] Fix kernel version detection for kernel images >= 6.0.
      (github issue #245 by Stefan Bühler @tik-stbuehler)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:59:32 +0200

needrestart 3.6

  * Security:
    - [Interp] CVE-2022-30688: Anchor interpreter regex to prevent local privilege escalation.
      (responsibly reported by Jakub Wilk)

  * Features:
    - [Core] Add support for runit.
      (Debian Bug#972685 by Lorenzo Puliti <plorenzo@disroot.org>)
    - [VM] Add support to detect outdated VM processes (i.e. qemu).
      (github pull request #216 by Christian Ehrhardt @cpaelzer)

  * Changes:
    - [Cont] Improve LXD container support.
      (github pull request #188 by James TD Smith @ahktenzero)
    - [Cont] Update cgroup regex for LXC 4.0.
      (github pull request #215 by James TD Smith @ahktenzero)
    - [Cont] Support cgroup v2 for docker.
      (github pull request #234 by Markus Frosch @lazyfrosch)
    - [Cont] Support cgroup v2 for LXC/LXD.
      (github pull request #238 by Trent Lloyd @lathiat)
    - [Core] Support cgroup v2 for services and user sessions.
    - [Core] Support systemd manager restart on Ubuntu 20.04+.
      (github pull request #195 by Lars Kollstedt @LarsKollstedt)
    - [Core] Do not restart bluetooth.service by default.
      (github pull request #209 by Erik Tews @eriktews)
    - [Core] Do not restart elogind by default.
      (github issue #205 by @HumanG33k)
    - [Core] Output user sessions in batch mode.
      (github pull request #232 by @anarcat)
    - [Core] Use ImVirt for virtualization detection if not running on systemd.
      (Debian Bug#984789 by Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net>)
    - [Interp] Add tolerance when checking script file ctimes to avoid false positives.
      (github pull request #233 by Corey Hickey @bugfood)
    - [Kernel] Replace strings(1) by GNU grep to drop binutils dependency.
      (Debian Bug#986507 by Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>)

  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Fix comment for default value of `skip_mapfiles`.
      (github pull request #179 by @iasdeoupxe)
    - [Interp] Fix detection for ruby script started from relative paths.
      (github pull request #182 by Alexander Neumann @rtpt-alex)
    - [Core] Fix typos.
      (github pull request #189 by @wwuck)
      (github pull request #193 by Stefan Weil @stweil)
    - [Core] Fix verbose/verbosity confusion in needrestart.conf.
      (github pull request #197 by Jan-Philipp Litza @jplitza)
    - [Core] Ignore memfd files like used by nvidia's binary drivers.
      (github pull request #200 by Jan Visser @starquake)
    - [Core] Ignore all memfd mappings.
      (Debian Bug#972685 by Michail Bachmann <m.bachmann@cms.hu-berlin.de>)
    - [Core] Ignore Java Native Access mappings.
      (github issue #142 by @nirgal)
      (github issue #185 by Ivan Zaera @izaera)
    - [Core] nagios: Do not print perfdata data in unkown state.
      (github pull request #222 by Lorenz @RincewindsHat)
    - [uCode] Fix 'uninitialized value' on AMD.
      (github pull request #226 by Christian Garbs @mmitch)

  * Misc:
    - Minor cleanups (whitespaces, shellcheck, ...).
      (github pull request #217 by @a1346054)
    - Update README.batch.md.
      (github pull request #219 by Stavros Ntentos @stdedos)
    - Add icinga2 example config.
      (github pull request #223 by Lorenz @RincewindsHat)
    - [uCode] Fix lsinitrd example.
      (github pull request #240 by Corey Hickey @bugfood)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 17 May 2022 17:00:00 +0200

needrestart 3.5

  * Features:
    - [uCode] Check for pending AMD microcode updates (experimental).
      (Debian Bug#886611 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
      (github issue #150 by Tom Reynolds @tomreyn and Mark Wagie @yochananmarqos)

  * Changes:
    - [Core] Add network.service to blacklist.
      (github pull request #145 by Marc Dequènes (Duck) @duck-rh)
    - [uCode] Check microcode revision of each individual CPUs.
    - [Kernel] Support kernel image filename filtering required for Raspbian.
      (github issue #146 by @takichikawa)
      (github issue #155 by Fenhl @fenhl and Christian @git-developer)
    - [uCode] Support local override for iucode_tool call.
      (github issue #148 by @mphilipps and Marc Dequènes (Duck) @duck-rh)
    - [notify] Add app name to notify-send call.
      (github issue #76 by @Vladimir-csp)

  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Do not restart networking.service.
      (Debian Bug#922725 by Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>).
    - [Core] Fix typo in man page for env variable DEBIAN_FRONT(END).
      (Debian Bug#922864 by Lee Garrett <debian@rocketjump.eu>)
      (Debian Bug#923853 by Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>)
    - [Interp] Restore cwd when skipping processes with unavailable cwd.
      (github issue #147 by Stavros Ntentos @stdedos)
    - [Core] Remove leading zero before testing in map_files.
      (Debian Bug#928225 by Alexander Galanin <al@galanin.nnov.ru>)
    - [Core] Fix typos in ex/needrestart.conf.
      (github pull request #163 by Simon Brand @brandsimon)
    - [UI] Don't fail when terminal has zero columns width.
      (github pull request #167 by @libnoon)
    - [Core] Ignore mapped files not found on filesystem (stat) to suppress
      chroot false positives.
      (github issue #158 by @mphilipps)
      (github issue #152 by Ivan Kurnosov @zerkms and @djl)
    - [Core] Supress warnings from Proc::ProcessTable.
      (github issue #170 by @mphilipps)
    - [CONT] Fix docker detection on CentOS 7.
      (github issue #165 by Christian Ruppert @idl0r)
    - [notify] Fix notify-send not working with dbus-user-session.
      (github issue #76 by @Vladimir-csp)
    - [Core] Ignore mapped files in temporary directories.
      (Debian Bug#925408 by Donald Pellegrino <donald.a.pellegrino@gmail.com>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:36:57 +0100

needrestart 3.4

  * Features:
    - [L10n] Add Czech localization.
      (github pull request #131 by @p-bo)
      (github pull request #132 by @p-bo)
      (github pull request #133 by @p-bo)
    - [Core] Add FRR to override.
      (github pull request #138 by David Lamparter @eqvinox)
    - [Core] Detect if run inside a container or vm using systemd.
      (github issue #139 by Tobby @tobby88)
    - [Core] Skip needrestart in apt hook if system is shutting down.
      (Debian Bug#914753 by Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@canonical.com>)

  * Changes:
    - [Core] Do restart systemd-journald (again).
      (see also Debian Bug#771122, #771254 and #898818)
      (Debian Bug#898818 by Mathieu Parent <sathieu@debian.org>)

  * Fixes:
    - [uCode] Ignore broken microcode files (required for CentOS).
      (github issue #123 by Marc Dequènes (Duck) @duck-rh)
    - [uCode] Parse output of old iucode-tool 1.5.
      (github pull request #127 by Lutz Heermann @LuHee)
    - [uCode] Prevent microcode false positives for BIOS updates.
      (Debian Bug#906958 by Maik Zumstrull <maik@zumstrull.net>)
    - [uCode] Handle microcode updates for multiple CPUs in initramfs.
      (Debian Bug#907372 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Ignore temporary mappings of elasticsearch.
      (github issue #134 by Georg @teadur)
    - [Core] Do not restart oneshot services from systemd-cron.
      (Debian Bug#917073 by Antti Salmela <asalmela@iki.fi>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:43:12 +0100

needrestart 3.3

  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Configuration file is ignored.
      (Debian Bug#901999 by Andreas Schmidt <pi-c@arcor.de>)
      (Debian Bug#902031 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
      (Debian Bug#902049 by Jon <nuxi@vault24.org>)
      (github issue #121 by Sven Hartge @shartge)
    - [Interp] Supress uninitalized value if abs_path fails.
      (github issue #120 by Craig Andrews @candrews)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:32:47 +0200

needrestart 3.2

  * Changes:
    - [Kernel] Include /boot/kernel* while looking for linux
      kernel images (required for Gentoo)
      (Gentoo Bug 654958 by Klaus Ethgen)
      (github pull request #113 by Craig Andrews @candrews)
    - [Core] Do not restart ModemManager by default.
      (github pull request #119 by @bodqhrohro)

  * Fixes:
    - [UI] Do not call GetTerminalSize if STDOUT is not a tty.
      (github pull request #110 by Michael Scherer @mscherer)
    - [uCode] Filter microcode for CPU signature and flags.
      (github issue #112 by @mgondium)
      (Debian Bug#900298 by Francois Mescam <fmescam@sd-123993.dedibox.fr>)
    - [uCode] Assigning ucodehints a false value disables ucode
      checks.
      (github issue #115 by Johannes Kampmeyer @xschlef)
    - [Hooks] Ignore non-executable init scripts.
      (github issue #116 by Marc Dequènes (Duck) @duck-rh)
    - [L10n] Fix typo in Russian localization.
      (github pull request #118 by @bodqhrohro)
    - [UI] Do not leak fd into restarted services.
      (Debian Bug#893152 by Stephen Rothwell <debbugs@rothwell.id.au>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:42:51 +0200

needrestart 3.1

  * Changes:
    - [uCode] Handle microcode upgrades in early boot initrd images,
      required at least on Arch Linux.
      (github issue #106 by @Wuestengecko)

  * Fixes:
    - [uCode] Fix uninitialized value in batch mode.
      (Debian Bug#891923 by Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>)
      (github issue #105 by Evgenii Terechkov @evgkrsk)
    - [uCode] Fix completely broken microcode update detection.
      (github issue #108 by @Wuestengecko)
    - [UI] Fix microcode revision placeholders in NeedRestart::UI::stdio.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:22:55 +0200

needrestart 3.0

  * Features:
    - [Core] Possible to suspend needrestart in apt-get hook using
      the NEEDRESTART_SUSPEND environment variable.
      (github issue #71 by Ludovic Gasc @GMLudo et. al.)
    - [Core] Possible to override the configured restart mode using
      the NEEDRESTART_MODE environment variable.
      (Debian Bug#866105 by Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>)
    - [uCode] Check for pending Intel microcode updates.
      (Debian Bug#886445 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Changes:
    - [Core] Do not try to restart service units with RefuseManualStop=yes.
      (github issue #75 by Marc Dequènes @duck-rh)
    - [Kernel] Try to adopt RPM's version sorting to get most recent kernel.
      (github issue #73 by Maximilian Gaß @mxey)
    - [Core] Tune blacklist_mappings default setting to match on deleted maps.
    - [UI] Respect verbosity in UI::stdio, just like UI::Debconf.
      (github pull request #88 by @guillaume-uH57J9)
    - [Core] Improve output formating.
      (github issue #84 by Stavros Ntentos @stdedos)
    - [Core] Improve container detection to skip kernel and microcode checks.
  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Makefile: Fix installation of restart.d/ scripts.
      (Debian Bug#851866 by Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>)
    - [Core] Fix warning in Perl 5.20.x, not triggered in 5.24.x
      in needrestart.conf (Oil Runtime Compiler's JIT files).
      (patch by Patrick Matthäi (Debian))
    - [Core] Do not restart oneshot services.
      (Debian Bug#862840 by Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>)
    - [Core] Ignore rc-local.service.
      (Debian Bug#852864 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Do not restart libvirt by default.
      (github issue #69 by Craig Andrews @candrews)
    - [Interp/Perl] Add missing cwd restore before a return.
      (github issues #55 and #70 Craig Andrews @candrews and Stefan Bühler @stbuehler)
    - [Core] README.md: Fix spelling.
      (github issue #74 by Edward Betts @EdwardBetts)
    - [Core] Add bird to override.
      (github issue #78 by Björn Lässig @Farom)
    - [Interp/(Perl|Python)] Use absolute paths used to search the package
      of a script file.
      (github issue #79 by Christopher Odenbach @odenbach)
    - [Hook] Use rpm -q --filesbypkg rather than rpmquery.
      (github issue #81 by Sven Hartge @shartge)
    - [CONT] Detect docker container ns running not on systemd.
    - [CONT] Ignore processes running inside docker containers.
      (github issue #80 by Christopher Odenbach @odenbach)
    - [Core] Ignore special filename mappings used by recent versions of
      KDE plasmashell.
      (github issue #65 by @GoTeamAnt)
      (Debian Bug#879091 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Fix handling of library mappings if target does not exist.
      (github issue #58 by @pigen)
      (Debian Bug#878700 by Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>)
    - [Hook] Fix handling of multiarch packages.
      (github issue #56 by @mayasd)
    - [Interp] Ignore interpreter processes with unreachable root fs (i.e.
      in different mnt ns).
      (github issue #72 by Stefan Bühler @stbuehler)
    - [Core] Add missing unnamed device major numbers (fix for OpenVZ).
      (Debian Bug#876452 by Piotr Pańczyk <piotr.panczyk@assecobs.pl>)
    - [UI] Do not call GetTerminalSize() if STDOUT is not a TTY.
      (Debian Bug#859387 by by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
      (github issues #85 and #86 by @guillaume-uH57J9)
    - [UI] Fix switch from interactive to list mode if debconf is run
      noninteractive.
      (Debian Bug#876459 by Piotr Pańczyk <piotr.panczyk@assecobs.pl>)
    - [man] Add documentation on restart mode if run non-interactive.
      (Debian Bug#842512 by Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Ignore some Java false positives (JNA, JFFI).
      (github pull request #89 by Maximilian Gaß @mxey)
      (github issue #60 by @ge-fa)
    - [Core] Output NRPE message "root needed" on stdout.
      (github pull request #91 by @nirgal)
    - [Core] Use override_cont when querying containers.
      (github pull request #94 by Nigel Kukard @nkukard)
    - [Core] Do not restart docker by default.
    - [Core] Fix typo in man page.
      (Debian Bug#885448 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Interp] Fix perl warning if cwd is unreachable.
      (github issue #99 by @glitsj16)
    - [Hook] Replace remaining calls of rpmquery by rpm.
      (github issue #100 by Matthias Hörmann @taladar)
    - [Core] Fix additional unit detection in dbus restart handler.
      (github issue #104 by Alexander Barton @alexbarton)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:38:46 +0100

needrestart 2.11

  * Features:
    - [Core] Allow special treatment to restart services (i.e. dbus).
      (github issue #44 by @Vladimir-csp)
    - [Cont] Support restarting LXD-based LXC containers.
      (github issue #26 by James Johnston @JohnstonJ)
    - [Core] New config option to enforce legacy session detection if systemd
      is used without PAM integration.
      (github issue #52 by @micw and Eric S. @Korni22)
  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Fix default config type for override_* settings.
      (github issue #47 by @mphilipps)
    - [Kernel] Ignore initrd filenames while looking for kernel image files.
      (github issue #49 by Evgenii Terechkov @evgkrsk)
    - [Kernel] Strip .img from version string when deducting the kernel
      version from filename.
      (github issue #49 by Evgenii Terechkov @evgkrsk)
    - [Core] Fix wrong regex quotation in default configuration file.
      (Debian Bug#844283 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Add display-manager 'lxdm' to override.
      (Debian Bug#845996 by Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>)
    - [Interp] Make paths when searching source files relative to the root
      path of the process.
      (github issue #54 by Tomasz Kontusz @ktosiek)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:59:36 +0100

needrestart 2.10

  * Features:
    - [Interp] Allow ignoring of interpreted files.
      (github issue #39 by Wolfgang Karall @wolfgangkarall)
    - [Core] Make verification of mapped files in fileystem configurable as a
      workaround for broken grsecurity kernels.
      (github issue #46 by @jleroy @eigengrau)
    - [Core] Make ignore of mapped files configurable.
      (github issue #45 by @stbuehler)
  * Fixes:
    - [Core] Do not ignore processes if maps file could not be read.
    - [Perl] Silence warnings of Module::ScanDeps for dynamic loaded modules.
      (github issue #41 by @bxkx @r-lindner)
    - [UI] Do not use Text::Wrap while printing restart commands.
      (Debian Bug#838622 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Do really restart services in automatic mode.
      (Debian Bug#838355 by Georg <georg@riseup.net>)
    - [Kernel] Include /boot/*.img while looking for linux kernel images.
      Fixes kernel detection on Raspbian.
      (github issue #38 by @fenhl)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:37:05 +0100

needrestart 2.9

  * Changes:
    - [l10n] Add RU translation for notify.d stuff.
      (github issue #29 by @Vladimir-csp)
      (github issue #31 by @Vladimir-csp)
    - [Conf] Add lxcfs to override_rc.
      (Debian Bug#832166 by Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org>)
    - [Conf] Pass arguments of apt-pinvoke to needrestart.
      (Debian Bug#826220 by Wolfgang Karall-Ahlborn <lists+debian-bugs@karall-edv.at>)
    - [Core] Use $(MAKE) instead of make for parallel make.
      (github issue #34 by Craig Andrews @candrews)
    - [Core] Make nagios severities configurable.
      (github issue #32 by Christoph Anton Mitterer @calestyo)
  * Features:
    - [Core] Sys-V: use chkconfig tags if LSB tags are missing.
      (github issue #33 by Evgenii Terechkov @evgkrsk)
    - [Interp] Cache file lists of interpreter processes.
      (Debian Bug#826247 by Wolfgang Karall-Ahlborn <lists+debian-bugs@karall-edv.at>)
  * Fixes:
    - [UI] Add a workaround for bug in Term::ReadKey if STDOUT does not
      print on a TTY (see also Debian Bug#824564).
    - [Core] Fix orcexec regex to match on removed files, too.
      (Debian Bug#828103 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Don't compare device numbers on anon fs (i.e. OpenVZ's simfs).
      (github issue #28 by Sven-Haegar Koch @haegar)
    - [Core] Fix odd perl warnings about LSB tags.
      (github issue #33 by Evgenii Terechkov @evgkrsk)
    - [Core] Make systemctl_combine config option working.
      (Debian Bug#826526 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Handle newlines in kernel versions gracefully.
      (Debian Bug#827162 by Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>)
    - [Core] Fix session counter in nagios plugin mode.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:52:41 +0200

needrestart 2.8

  * Changes:
    - [Core] Restart SysV init services on systemd using systemctl.
      (Debian Bug#818853 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Print a combined `systemctl restart` command line for skipped
      services (config option).
      (Debian Bug#818853 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
    - [l10n] Make NeedRestart::UI::stdio localized and update German localization.
    - [notify] Disable mail notification by default (notify.conf).
  * Features:
    - [Core] Add a easy UI mode hiding technical details for non-technical users.
      (Debian Bug#819824 by Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net>))
    - [Cont] Detect systemd-machined containers.
  * Fixes:
    - [Conf] Add xendomains to override_rc.
      (Debian Bug#817807 by Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>)
    - [Core] Do not terminate debconf after restart service selection since it
      is still needed for container selection.
    - [Core] Fix regex handling in cgroup detection.
      (github pull request #25 by Courtney Bane @cbane)
    - [Core] Fix library probing inside filesystem namespaces (i.e. LXC
      containers).
      (github issue #23 by Lukas Pirl @lpirl)
    - [Interp] Fix incomplete skipping of scanning files in Interp/*.pm
      if cwd is unknown.
    - [Interp] Improve getopts parsing (Interp::*) to remove "Uknown option:"
      warnings.
      (Debian Bug#817927 by F. Petitjean <francois.petitjean@bureauveritas.com>)
    - [notify.d] Fix bashisms in /etc/needrestart/notify.d/*.
      (Debian Bug#818001 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
      <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>)
      (github issue #21 by Sebastian Brandt @sbrandtb)
      (Debian Bug#824184 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
    - [UI] stdio: do not skip service asked while choosing auto mode.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Mon, 16 May 2016 18:45:51 +0200

needrestart 2.7

  * [Bug] Ignore init rc being symlinks to upstart-job.
    (github issue #16 by Jonas Genannt @hggh)
  * [Bug] Allow systemd service names with dots in them.
    (github issue #19 by Michael Fladischer <michael@fladi.at>)
  * [Bug] Add display-manager 'slim' to override.
    (Debian Bug#816061 by Lars Kruse <devel@sumpfralle.de>)
  * [debconf] Add russian translation.
    (Debian Bug#815086 by Vladimir Kudrya <pzs-fs@yandex.ru>)
  * [notify] Add support for translation of notify scripts.
    (Debian Bug#815086 by Vladimir Kudrya <pzs-fs@yandex.ru>)
  * [Core] Add support for translation of core script.
    (Debian Bug#815086 by Vladimir Kudrya <pzs-fs@yandex.ru>)
  * [Bug] Fix missing translations in debconf template file.
    (Debian Bug#815086 by Vladimir Kudrya <pzs-fs@yandex.ru>)
  * [notify] Notification scripts can be disabled globaly (see notify.conf).
    (Debian Bug#787297 by Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>)
  * [Core] Improve output of restart commands.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:46:45 +0100

needrestart 2.6

  * [Bug] Do not notify system users via email.
    (Debian Bug#812399 by Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>)
  * [Bug] Do no restart services in interactive restart mode while
     debconf's noninteractive frontend is used.
    (Debian Bug#803249 by Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>)
  * [Bug] Fix broken detection of old mappings due to regression
    introduced in v2.3 (commit acf6a07).
    (Debian Bug#810970 by Andreas Schmidt <pi-c@arcor.de>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:14:32 +0100

needrestart 2.5

  * [Bug] Fix broken kernel detection due to syntax error.
    (Debian Bug#810031 by Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:17:53 +0100

needrestart 2.4

  * [Bug] Drop unused dependency on File::Slurp.
    (Debian Bug#799733 by Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>)
    (Debian Bug#799734 by Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>)
  * [Bug] Add user@\d+.service to override_rc.
    (Debian Bug#788380 by Shirish Agarwal <shirishag75@gmail.com>)
  * [Bug] Add override for systemd-logind due to another systemd regression.
    (Debian Bug#800718 by Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>)
  * [Bug] Fix grammar in hook scripts.
    (Debian Bug#805980 by Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>)
  * [Bug] Fix kernel detection on non x86* arch.
    (Debian Bug#800720 by Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>)
  * [Kernel] Extract kernel version on non-x86(_64) archs (allows ABI checks).

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Fri, 01 Jan 2016 21:54:47 +0100

needrestart 2.3

  * [Bug] Add lightdm to override.
    (Debian Bug#791649 by Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>)
  * [Bug] Do not try container detection in user mode.
    (Debian Bug#791665 by Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>)
  * [Bug] Remove unsupported HTML markups from notifications.
    (Debian Bug#791664 by Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>)
  * [Bug] Compare inodes of mapped files more reliable for chrooted
    processes.
    (github issue #11 by Markus Frosch <markus@lazyfrosch.de>)
  * [Kernel] Skip kernel detection within containers.
  * [UI] Add a quiet option to drop any progress messages.
    (Debian Bug#791708 by Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>)
  * [Bug] Do not handle user services as system services.
    (Debian Bug#792032 by Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>)
  * [Bug] Fix cutting path names read from /proc/PID/maps at spaces
    resulting in false-positives.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:38:19 +0200

needrestart 2.2

  * [regression] Processes using chroot were always detected as obsolete
    since missing binaries in /proc/PID/root/.
    (Debian Bug#786584 by François Mescam <francois@mescam.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 26 May 2015 23:56:11 +0200

needrestart 2.1

  * [Bug] Ignore /usr/bin/apt-get.
    (Debian Bug#784237 by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>)
  * [Bug] Add override for systemd's emergency.service and rescue.service.
    (Debian Bug#784437)
  * [Bug] Ignore Oil Runtime Compiler's JIT files.
    (Debian Bug#786374 by Francois Mescam <francois@mescam.org>)
  * [Bug] Fix 2c037bc did broke the progressbar.
    (Related to Debian Bug#768124)
  * [Cont] Detect and suggest to restart containers:
    - docker
    - LXC
    (Debian Bug#783181 by Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>)
  * [Core] Add nagios plugin mode (-p).
    (github issue #5 by Ludovic Gasc [@GMLudo])
  * [Core] Use /proc/$PID/root to scan for files fixing false positives on
    containers (i.e. LXC) using bind mounts.
    (Debian Bug#783181 by Brian Minton <brian@minton.name>)
  * [Interp] Skip scanning files with Interp/* if cwd is unknown.
    (Debian Bug#779832 by wforumw <wforumw@gmail.com>)
  * [Interp] Skip scanning files with Interp/* if cwd is unknown.
    (Debian Bug#779832 by wforumw <wforumw@gmail.com>)
  * [Kernel] Add kernel hints option not requiring an acknowledgement by
    the user.
    (Debian Bug#769811 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * [Kernel] Take version number comparing stuff from Dpkg::Version to
    compare kernel versions correctly.
    (Debian Bug#781657 by Martin Steigerwald <Martin@Lichtvoll.de>)
  * [UI] Improve restart query in interactive mode (stdio).
    (Debian Bug#772859 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Fri, 22 May 2015 01:45:17 +0200

needrestart 2.0

  * [regression] List commands in list mode.
    (Debian Bug#764042 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Add a conf.d/ directory.
    (Debian Bug#764043 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * [UI] Fix empty current/expected kernel version string used by
    debconf template.
    (Debian Bug#764917 by Laurent Bonnaud <L.Bonnaud@laposte.net>)
  * Don't blacklist services by default but use a new override_rc option
    to don't restart some critical services by default.
    (Debian Bug#763937 by Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>)
  * Don't restart services greylisted in override_rc in auto mode.
    (Debian Bug#770937 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * [UI] Disable progress bar while running non-interactive.
    (Debian Bug#768124 by Phillip Berndt <phillip.berndt@googlemail.com>)
  * [UI] Fix warning on uninitialized values while reading from /dev/stdin.
    (Debian Bug#768124 by Phillip Berndt <phillip.berndt@googlemail.com>)
  * [Interp] Add basic Java detection support.
  * Add PolicyKit action file to allow needrestart-session to run
    needrestart as root.
  * [UI] Add `-f <fe>` CLI parameter to allow to overwrite the
    DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable used by debconf(7).

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:46:13 +0100

needrestart 1.2

  * Prepare po-debconf usage and add German translation.
    (Debian Bug#761068 by David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>)
  * Drop dependency on Term::ProgressBar::Simple.
    (Debian Bug#761192 by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>)
  * Fix blacklist to match upgraded binaries (dpkg).
    (Debian Bug#761346 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Fix detection of unit names on systemd 215+.
    (Debian Bug#762312 by Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>)
  * Ignore special paths (SYSV IPC, DRM, /dev), fixing some
    false positives.
  * Add service blacklist configuration option to fix display
    manager blacklisting with systemd.
  * Handle restarts of systemd manager and sysv init using
    their specific commands.
    (Debian Bug#762528 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:48:42 +0200

needrestart 1.1

  * Ignore DHCP clients.
    (Debian Bug#752111 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * Add options allowing to select which check should be performed.
    (Proposed by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:57:29 +0200

needrestart 1.0

  * Fix grammar errors and use a additional debconf template.
    (Debian Bug#748652 by Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>)
  * Ignore device ID in /proc/<pid>/maps on kFreeBSD.
    (Reported by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>).
  * Ignore device ID for unnamed devices due to broken implementation on btrfs.
    (Debian Bug#750734 by Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@vub.ac.be>)
  * Skip scanning of needrestart process.
    (Debian Bug#751877 by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>)
  * [UI] Drop UI specific progress indicators, use
    Term::ProgressBar::Simple to minimize disruption of the terminal.
    (Debian Bug#748758 by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>)
  * [UI] Support 'backup' capability of Debconf.
  * [Interp] Fix include path retrieval on python3.
    (Debian Bug#750589 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
    <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>)
  * [Interp] Handle errors on python include path retrieval gracefully.
    (Debian Bug#750589 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
    <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:21:15 +0200

needrestart 0.9

  * Drop external dependency on strings command from binutils.
  * Fix "uninitialized value" by apparent kernel threads.
    (Debian Bug#746363 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * Read kernel version from x86 kernel boot header and handle
    uncompressed kernel images.
    (Debian Bug#746550 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * Several small bugfixes:
    - [Interp] initial source file detection broken due using getopt
      instead of getopts
      (Debian Bug#746363 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
    - [UI] fix newlines in Debconf template
    - [UI] fix "No such file or directory" triggered by stdio
      (Debian Bug#746550 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
    - [Interp] Use source file instead of /proc/<pid>/exe to find package.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 11 May 2014 22:48:42 +0200

needrestart 0.8

  * Fix non-numeric argument on progress_prep call.
    (Debian Bug#744961 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
    <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>)
  * Feature: interpreter support enables needrestart to look for obsolete
    source files in scripting languages:
    - Perl: using Module::ScanDeps
    - Python: using home made source file scanning
    - Ruby: using home made source file scanning
  * Feature: detect running on obsolete kernels
    (Debian Bug#745270 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * NeedRestart::UI::Dialog: has been dropped
  * NeedRestart::UI::stdio: add mass processing
  * Several small bugfixes.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:15:35 +0200

needrestart 0.7

  * Improved rc script detection, e.g.: previous releases failed to
    detect apache2's init script after upgrading libssl1.0.0.
  * Handle Linux VServer naming convention on deleted binaries.
    (Thanks to Phillip Berndt [@phillipberndt])
  * Support GNU formatted device ids.
    (github issue #1 by Phillip Berndt [@phillipberndt])
  * Hooks: Use only available package managers.
  * Hooks: Ignore hooks not returning any rc scripts
    (fixes detecting apache2's rc script).
  * Hooks: Prefer rc scripts w/ matching pid
    (fixes calling unnecessary rc scripts like libvirt-guests).
  * Improve rc script detection by using a two pass
    analysis.
  * Fallback to NeedRestart::UI::stdio while being verbose.
    (Debian Bug#744000 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Add default UI configuration option.
    (Debian Bug#744001 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Apply blacklist while processing parent processes.
    (Debian Bug#744002 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Apply Debian's 01-makefile-fix.diff upstream.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:50:15 +0200

needrestart 0.6

  * Add lightdm to blacklist.
    (Debian Bug#735027 by Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>)
  * Print eval exception message on config file errors.
  * Use systemd if available.
    (Debian Bug#731028 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)
  * Use service to run traditional SysV scripts.
  * Change batch processing output.
  * Print full restart commands in list mode.
    (Debian Bug#731028 by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:52:18 +0200

needrestart 0.5

  * Ignore mapped files in /tmp.
  * Handle LSB tags case insensitivly.
    (Debian Bug#731165 by Christian Ionescu-Idbohrn
     <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>)
  * Prevent config file in dpkg.cfg.d to break dpkg
    after removing needrestart.
    (Debian Bug#732461 by Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:55:49 +0100

needrestart 0.4

  * Fix spelling:
    - typo in debconf template (s/restartet/restarted/;)
      (Debian Bug#723935 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
    - debconf template title (s/orphaned/outdated/;)
      (Debian Bug#723935 by Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>)
  * Fix progress bar increase to grow up to 100%:
    - binaries were counted twice
    - kernel threads did not increase progress
  * Demand restart of deleted binaries.
  * Add sudo binary to example blacklist.
    (Debian Bug#725937 by Jim Barber <jim.barber@ddihealth.com>)
  * Drop version number from man page.
    (Debian Bug#729997 by Raf Czlonka <rafal.czlonka@gmail.com>)
  * NeedRestart::UI::Debconf: Fix return code handling if readline
    is used as debconf frontend.
    (Debian Bug#729997 by Raf Czlonka <rafal.czlonka@gmail.com>)

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:30:06 +0100

needrestart 0.3

  * Fix typo reported by Patrick Matthäi.
  * Add man page provided by Patrick Matthäi (Debian).
  * Offer restart on non-existing mappings.
  * Add PacMan hook.
  * Be more fault-tolerant in batch mode.
  * Provide a more sophisticated apt/dpkg trigger.
  * Fix ignored -r command line parameter.
    (Debian Bug#721809 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * Ignore forked/detached daemon childs (pidfile heuristic).
    (Debian Bug#721810 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  * Provide modular UI including debconf and dialog based
    frontends.
  * Ignore binaries due blacklist config option.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:55:16 +0200

needrestart 0.2

  * Support (l)ist only, (i)nteractive restart and
    (a)utomaticly restart modes.
  * Supply apt.conf.d script to call needrestart on every upgrade.
  * Drop dependency on (Debian's) run-parts.
  * Drop Term::Query dependency.
  * Ignore rc scripts to be run in other run-levels.
  * Add batch mode.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:51:48 +0200

needrestart 0.1

  * Initial release.

 -- Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>  Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:40:09 +0100