[ANN] nitro 0.5, a tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

From: Leah Neukirchen <leah_at_vuxu.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:55:38 +0200

Hello,

I'm happy to announce a new release of "nitro", a new supervisor akin
to daemontools/runit/perp/s6.

These are the main applications nitro is designed for:
- As init for a Linux or NetBSD machine for embedded, desktop or
  server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on generic POSIX systems

nitro 0.5 is pretty much feature complete and now supports (relative
to the the previous release announcement):
- usage as NetBSD init
- s6-compatible readiness notification
- event-driven nitroctl which can perform multiple actions in parallel
- improved usability and robustness
- new test suite, which passes on new and old Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD

For more details, see https://git.vuxu.org/nitro/tree/NEWS.md

You can find the nitro source at

     https://git.vuxu.org/nitro
     https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nitro

and release tarballs at

     https://leahneukirchen.org/releases/nitro-0.5.tar.gz

Releases are also signed with signify(1) using
https://leahneukirchen.org/releases/nitro.pub namely:
RWQ4n7iirrio0Nm2kwQYdW28BE8+AFuClCL6dlj/C1AO2PXLuhKGVEI8

nitro is licensed under the 0BSD license.

Feedback is welcome by mail or via IRC in #vuxu on irc.libera.chat.

Enjoy,

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Leah Neukirchen  <leah_at_vuxu.org>  https://leahneukirchen.org/
Received on Fri Oct 17 2025 - 14:55:38 CEST

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