2.0

ChangeLog:

• [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&gt:)
• [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).

1.2-6

Upstream patches for Debian Jessie package 1.2-6, inlcudes:

• 01-add-conf.d-directory: support conf.d directory (Closes: #764043)
• 02-regression-commands-in-list-mode: fix a regression in list mode (Closes: #764042)
• 03-fix-empty-kernel-version-string fix displaying the running kernel version (Closes: #764917)
• 04-prefer-services-over-rc.d: prevent restarting services twice
• 05-dont-blacklist-services: add support for the new override_rc option and does not automatic restart services (Closes: #763937)
• 06-fix-version-number-string; fix the reported version number
• 07-fix-warnings-without-tty: fix Perl warnings, if no TTY is available (Closes: #768124)
• 08-fix-broken-debconf: fix a debconf hang up if no kernel image is available (Closes: #767370)
• 09-add-some-overrides: prevent automatic restarts of gettys and mythtv-backend
• 10-respect-override-auto: do not restart services with overrides in auto mode (Closes #770937)
• 11-systemd-journald-workaround to add systemd-journald to override_rc as a workaround tue to #771122 (Closes: #771254)
• 12-ignore-systemd-user-sessions: ignore user sessions (Closes: #771348)
• 13-falsepos-aio-fix: skip POSIX async I/O mappings to prevent false positive restarts
• 14-wpa_supplicant-override: ignore wpa_supplicant

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>).

1.1

ChangeLog:

• 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>).

1.0

ChangeLog:

• 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>).

0.9

ChangeLog:

• 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//exe to find package.

0.8

ChangeLog:

• 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.

0.7

ChangeLog:

• 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.

0.6

ChangeLog:

• 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).

0.5

ChangeLog:

• 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).