We are announcing the release of Habitat 1.6.500. This release provides the following fixes and enhancements:

*   We have added validation to `hab sup run` to reject service specific arguments if you are not starting a service with `hab sup run`. For example, `hab sup run --strategy at-once` will fail because no service is provided. However, `hab sup run core/nginx --strategy at-once` will succeed because you have provided a service (`nginx`) to run.
*   More sophisticated backoff delay periods governing service restarts for failed `init` and `run` hooks. See [the docs](https://docs.chef.io/habitat/service_restarts/) for a complete explanation on how to use this feature.

Please read on for all the details.  
Thanks for using Habitat!

## Merged Pull Requests

*   temp fix for multi e2e failures [#8500](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8500) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock))
*   chore: Included githubactions in the dependabot config [#8499](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8499) ([naveensrinivasan](https://github.com/naveensrinivasan))
*   Bump prost from 0.10.0 to 0.10.1 [#8486](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8486) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump prost-types from 0.10.0 to 0.10.1 [#8487](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8487) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Update Hugo docs build script [#8495](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8495) ([IanMadd](https://github.com/IanMadd))
*   add documentation for updating a supervisor [#8493](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8493) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock))
*   Docs updates reflecting hook retry/backoff changes [#8490](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8490) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock))
*   Bump toml from 0.5.8 to 0.5.9 [#8488](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8488) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump libc from 0.2.123 to 0.2.124 [#8489](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8489) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Implement advanced behavior for init and run hooks [#8454](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8454) ([atrniv](https://github.com/atrniv))
*   Bump libc from 0.2.122 to 0.2.123 [#8484](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8484) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Set permissions for GitHub actions [#8481](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8481) ([nathannaveen](https://github.com/nathannaveen))
*   Bump httparse from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 [#8483](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8483) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump flate2 from 1.0.22 to 1.0.23 [#8482](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8482) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump libc from 0.2.121 to 0.2.122 [#8480](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8480) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Update Habitat Supervisor API Docs - 20220323155103 [#8467](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8467) ([chef-ci](https://github.com/chef-ci))
*   Hab-sup-run arguments modified. [#8464](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8464) ([dikshagupta1](https://github.com/dikshagupta1))
*   Rustfmt and Nightly Rust Bump to nightly-2022-03-23 [#8468](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8468) ([chef-expeditor\[bot\]](https://github.com/chef-expeditor%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump log from 0.4.14 to 0.4.16 [#8466](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8466) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   update prost crates [#8478](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8478) ([mwrock](https://github.com/mwrock))
*   Bump prost-derive from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 [#8474](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8474) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump paste from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 [#8472](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8472) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump semver from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 [#8473](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8473) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   Bump async-trait from 0.1.52 to 0.1.53 [#8471](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8471) ([dependabot\[bot\]](https://github.com/dependabot%5Bbot%5D))
*   update changelog [#8469](https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat/pull/8469) ([atrniv](https://github.com/atrniv))