2.8

• Changes:
  • [Core] Restart SysV init services on systemd using systemctl.
    (Debian Bug#818853 by Paul Wise <[email protected]>)
  • [Core] Print a combined systemctl restart command line for skipped
    services (config option).
    (Debian Bug#818853 by Paul Wise <[email protected]>)
  • [l10n] Make NeedRestart::UI::stdio localized and update German localization.
  • [notify] Disable mail notification by default (notify.conf).
• Features:
  • [Core] Add a easy UI mode hiding technical details for non-technical users.
    (Debian Bug#819824 by Patrick Schleizer <[email protected]>))
  • [Cont] Detect systemd-machined containers.
• Fixes:
  • [Conf] Add xendomains to override_rc.
    (Debian Bug#817807 by Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>)
  • [Core] Do not terminate debconf after restart service selection since it
    is still needed for container selection.
  • [Core] Fix regex handling in cgroup detection.
    (github pull request #25 by Courtney Bane @cbane)
  • [Core] Fix library probing inside filesystem namespaces (i.e. LXC
    containers).
    (github issue #23 by Lukas Pirl @lpirl)
  • [Interp] Fix incomplete skipping of scanning files in Interp/*.pm
    if cwd is unknown.
  • [Interp] Improve getopts parsing (Interp::*) to remove "Uknown option:"
    warnings.
    (Debian Bug#817927 by F. Petitjean <[email protected]>)
  • [notify.d] Fix bashisms in /etc/needrestart/notify.d/*.
    (Debian Bug#818001 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
    <[email protected]>)
    (github issue #21 by Sebastian Brandt @sbrandtb)
    (Debian Bug#824184 by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>)
  • [UI] stdio: do not skip service asked while choosing auto mode.