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The feature that made 66 leave s6: the event system

With 0.9.0.0, 66 no longer links against skalibs, s6 or execline. The scanner, the supervisor, the logger, the fd holder and the privilege dropper are now native programs of the suite. Leaving the foundation a project was built on is not a decision to make lightly, so here is why. The tipping point was the event system: implementing it correctly is what made it clear that going further meant leaving s6. To see what it is for, start with a very ordinary problem that service managers usually solve with glue.

obinstall — the new Obarun installer

Dear Obarun Community,

Obarun has a new installer. It is called obinstall, it is available in [obextra], and it replaces the historical obarun-install and its companion obarun-install-themes. It offers two ways to install the system: a graphical wizard that runs in a browser, and a declarative command line driven by a single TOML file.

The new Obarun ISOs already carry this change. They are built by obinstall itself, they ship it, and they start it for you: pick Install in the boot menu, or open the installer from the live desktop once you are logged in.

Upgrading to 66 0.9.1.0

Dear Obarun Community,

The new release of 66 is available in the Obarun testing repositories. This post is not a description of what changed inside 66, the changelog already does that. It tells you what you have to do to bring an existing system to 0.9.1.0, in the order it has to be done.

apkg — new pipeline tooling for Obarun packages

Dear Obarun Community,

The build and deployment pipeline behind every Obarun package — [obcore], [obextra], [observice] and [obcommunity] — has been rebuilt from the ground up. The new tool is called apkg. It replaces the legacy apkg-*.sh bash scripts that have been quietly orchestrating Obarun package releases for more than 3 years. This post explains what changed, what it means for maintainers, and — most importantly — why contributing a package to [obcommunity] is now drastically easier than it used to be.

Obarun 66 Version 0.8.2.0 Released

Dear Obarun Community,

The release of 66 version 0.8.2.0 marks a significant step forward for the Obarun service management system. This update introduces powerful new features, critical bug fixes, and performance improvements designed to offer greater control, reliability, and ease of use for system administrators and users. Below is an overview of the key changes to help make the most of this release.

66 version 0.8.0.0 now in stable repos

Dear Obarun users, all required packages for 66, updated for the new 0.8.0.0 release, have been moved from the testing repository to their respective stable counterparts. Archives of previous versions can be found in the [obarchive] repository on the packages page.

If you haven’t completed the migration yet, follow the instructions below.