rose in activity. The last Wayback Machine capture of the Mac OS Forge area for launchd was in June 2012, and the most recent open source version from Apple was 842.92.1 in code for OS X 10.9.5. In 2014, with OS X 10.10 and iOS 8, Apple moved code for launchd to closed source libxpc. In August 2015 Jordan Hubbard and Kip Macy announced NextBSD, which is based on FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel while adding in Mach IPC, Libdispatch, notifyd, asld, launchd, and other components derived from Darwin, Apple's open-source code for OS X. Apple Open Source Release history See also systemd: similar utility developed by Red Hat for use among various mainline Linux distributions Service Management Facility Super-server TCP Wrapper Operating system service management References External links Apple Developer: Mac Developer Library: Daemons and Services Programming Guide: Creating Launch Daemons and Agents Mac Developer Library: Technical Note TN2083: Daemons and Agents Apple Developer Retired Documents Library: Other links: Apple Developer Library: Launchd: One Program to Rule them All - YouTube – presentation by Dave Zarzycki uploaded October 8, 2007 by GoogleTechTalks MacOS Software using the Apache license Unix process- and task-management-related software