needrestart 2.9 has been released: https://fiasko-nw.net/~thomas/projects/needrestart-2.9.html.en
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/2265
commit 0dd23ac2037d48ede24ef6810737ecaea3400e75 Author: Craig Andrews <candrews@integralblue.com> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 6 16:55:03 2016 -0400 Commit: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Fri Sep 9 00:04:00 2016 -0400 app-admin/needrestart-2.9: version bump Gentoo-bug: 593014