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Supervisor 3.0a1 Released

The supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.

Supervisor 3.0a1 is the latest release of supervisor .

v3.0a1 is a major feature release version. Most of the features were commissioned by Maintainable Software . As well as contributing development funding, members of Maintainable have contributed a good deal of code to the supervisor codebase.

The major new features in 3.0a1 as compared to the prior (2.2b1) release:

  • An event notification system. Supervisor now sends event notifications during normal operations for things like subprocess start and stop, supervisor startup and shutdown, and "process communications". Users can write "event listeners" (which run as subprocesses) and subscribe them to these events selectively. Event listeners can perform arbitrary actions when an event notification occurs, such as sending an email, posting to an HTTP server, etc.
  • Subprocesses can emit data on stdout or stderr between special tokens which cause supervisor to perform a "process communications" event notification.
  • Process groups. Two types of process groups can be defined via the config file: "homogeneous" and "heterogeneous". "Homogeneous" process groups are process groups comprised of very similar processes (e.g. many instances of an application server). "Heterogeneous" process groups are process groups comprised of potentially differing process types (e.g. "processes related to customer X"). Eventually it will be possible to start and stop process groups from within supervisorctl and the web interface (this feature is currently yet-to-be-implemented).
  • The XML-RPC interface API can be extended in arbitrary ways by registering new top-level namespace factories.
  • Stdout and stderr of processes may now be logged independently.
  • Improved web interface styling.

As with any alpha release, the API and config file format is subject to change, so I wouldn't recommend deploying this release to production.

Supervisor 3.0a1 can be installed via "easy_install supervisor" if you're using an internet-connected machine with setuptools installed into your Python.

I've created a maillist for users of supervisor and as always, bug reports can be sent to the collector .

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Created by chrism
Last modified 2007-08-16 08:38 PM

Congrats, and thanks!

Hey, I'm glad to hear that you're getting support for supervisor. I use it on all of my systems. Frankly, I'd love to see it become a standard tool, since it makes my life easier.