Recent works on Zato’s command line interface resulted in several improvements that are available on GitHub, slated for delivery in the next release.

• zdaemon has been replaced with sarge - this resulted in a signifact speedup and servers now start much faster.

• Improved configuration checks provide immediate feedback when a component is found to have been misconfigured - TCP ports are checked to be free, Postgres/Oracle and Redis are pinged and the existence of pidfiles prevents components from attempting to run.

• All the components start commands work with grew a new –fg flag indicating that a given component - servers, Django-based web admin or load-balancers, shoud start in foreground instead of going into background daemon mode. Components started in such a way can be stopped with Ctrl-C.