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New Upstart Release Today we released Upstart 1.6, which includes the " stateful re-exec " feature, allowing Upstart to continue to supervise jobs after an upgrade of either itself, or any of its dependent libraries: https://launchpad.net/upstart/1.x/1.6 This will be available in Ubuntu Raring very soon. Thanks to all the contributors: A.Costa Colin Watson Eric S. Raymond Jason Conti Loïc Minier Steve Langasek   Like to get involved? If you'd like to get involved with Upstart Development... Take a look at the ideas page Study the Hacking Upstart Together presentation Read the Upstart Cookbook Read the code Subscribe to the mailing list Join us on #upstart on freenode Here's an early draft of what's planned for the next cycle: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions If you're interested in contributing, let me know! Update on Upstart in Debian ... But wait - there's m...

If you'd like to help out testing the new "stateful re-exec" feature of Upstart which we hope to land for Ubuntu Quantal, see the details here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/upstart-devel/2012-September/001948.html In brief (more posts will follow), "stateful re-exec" allows Upstart to be restarted (or upgraded!) without rebooting your system. A basic restart or re-exec isn't difficult, but what stateful re-exec does is maintain Upstarts internal state over the re-exec such that it continues to track jobs and log job output. This is an early cut of the code so don't install it on any critical systems . Additionally, there are some caveats... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/QuantalUpstartStatefulReexec#Phase_1_Limitations ... but we plan for that list to dwindle quickly over the coming days and weeks.