needrestart 0.8

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.

needrestart supports but does not require systemd. If systemd is not available or does not return a service name needrestart uses hooks to identify the corresponding System V init script. The shipped hooks support the following package managers:

• dpkg
• rpm
• pacman

The service command is used to run the tradiditional System V init script.

Changes in 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.

See also

• needrestart releases
• official Debian packages