While The Future Looks Towards Systemd, Upstart 1.13 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 11 July 2014 at 07:27 PM EDT. 12 Comments
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While Ubuntu Linux looks towards switching to systemd in the next year or two, a new version of Upstart has been released with Ubuntu still being dependent upon init daemon software.

The new release by Ubuntu's James Hunt is Upstart 1.13. The new release brings various fixes, disables chroot sessions by default, new tests and documentation, and other changes.

More details on Upstart 1.13 can be found via the Upstart mailing list.
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