diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9aaa8381..6c4ade69 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ In Development
 
 Control Panel:
 
+* The background service for the control panel was not restarting on updates, leaving the old version running. This was broken in v0.26 and is now fixed.
 * Installing your own TLS/SSL certificate had been broken since v0.24 because the new version of openssl became stricter about CSR generation parameters.
 
 v0.26b (January 25, 2018)
diff --git a/setup/management.sh b/setup/management.sh
index e3b3ec06..74261296 100755
--- a/setup/management.sh
+++ b/setup/management.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ rm -f /usr/local/bin/mailinabox-daemon # old path
 cat > $inst_dir/start <<EOF;
 #!/bin/bash
 source $venv/bin/activate
-python `pwd`/management/daemon.py
+exec python `pwd`/management/daemon.py
 EOF
 chmod +x $inst_dir/start
 rm -f /etc/init.d/mailinabox