What has changed in s6

in 2.1.1.1

Bugfix release, no important changes.

skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.0.0.
execline dependency bumped to 2.0.2.1.
New functionality added to s6-log. Its syntax has been extended; some options are now marked as obsolescent.
Access control instated in s6-fdholderd for listing

Bugfix release, no important changes.

skalibs dependency bumped to 2.2.1.0.
execline dependency bumped to 2.0.2.0.
Unix domain socket utilities moved from the s6-networking package to s6.
./finish argument for "service crashed" is now 256 instead of 255. Check your finish scripts!
supervise/status now includes wstat information when the service died, and s6-svstat reports that information.
s6-svstat now reports symbolic signal information by default, use -n to get the old behaviour.
s6-log now properly calls execlineb with its installation prefix, in the slashpackage case.
New commands: s6-svlisten and s6-svlisten1, to signal a service and wait on it without race condition.
A brand new set of programs, s6-fdholder*, to perform fd-holding.
Catchy blurb on intro page.

The build system has completely changed. It is now a standard ./configure && make && sudo make install build system. See the enclosed INSTALL file for details.
slashpackage is not activated by default.
shared libraries are not used by default.
skalibs dependency bumped to 2.0.0.0.
execline dependency bumped to 2.0.0.0.
s6-supervise does not create the ./event fifodir as public. Subscriptions are restricted to users having the same gid as the s6-supervise process.
The s6-notifywhenup program is a new addition.