1 D-Bus 1.7.2 (UNRELEASED)
6 • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the
7 session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default
8 limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are
9 reduced further, to 128.
13 • D-Bus Specification 0.21
14 · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF,
15 U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072,
20 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
21 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
22 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
24 • Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker,
28 · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie)
29 · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication
30 (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen)
31 · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket
32 (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez)
33 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
34 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
35 · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd
36 (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt)
37 · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for
38 meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker)
39 · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under
40 QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer)
43 · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials;
44 pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security
45 identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787,
48 D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22)
51 The "Disingenuous Assertions" release.
53 This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6
54 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions
55 or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
57 Build-time configuration changes:
59 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
60 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
61 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
62 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
65 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer
66 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
67 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
69 • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a
70 cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at
71 <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools
72 as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set
73 PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately.
77 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
78 • man2html is no longer used.
82 • D-Bus Specification 0.20
83 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
84 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
85 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
86 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
88 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
89 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
90 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
94 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
95 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
97 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
98 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
100 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
103 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
105 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
106 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
108 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
111 • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie)
114 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
115 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
116 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
118 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
119 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer)
122 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
123 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
124 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
125 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
126 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
127 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
129 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
132 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
135 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
137 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
138 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
139 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
140 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
141 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
144 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
147 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
149 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
150 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
151 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
153 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
154 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
155 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
157 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
160 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
161 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
162 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
164 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
167 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
168 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
171 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
172 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
174 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
177 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
179 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
180 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
182 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
183 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
185 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
186 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
187 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
188 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
189 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
191 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
192 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
195 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
197 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
200 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
202 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
203 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
205 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
208 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
209 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
211 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
213 • New dbus-daemon features
214 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
215 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
216 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
217 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
218 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
219 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
222 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
223 · dbus_type_is_valid()
224 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
227 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
228 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
229 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
230 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
232 • Other major implementation changes
233 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
234 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
235 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
236 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
239 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
240 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
241 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
242 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
244 Changes since 1.5.12:
246 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
247 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
249 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
250 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
252 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
253 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
254 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
256 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
259 The “Big Book of Science” release.
261 • Add public API to validate various string types:
262 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
263 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
264 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
266 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
267 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
269 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
270 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
272 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
273 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
276 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
277 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
278 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
279 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
281 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
284 The "fire in Delerium" release.
286 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
287 and SUSv2) is now required.
289 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
290 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
291 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
292 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
293 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
294 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
296 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
298 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
299 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
300 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
302 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
305 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
306 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
307 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
308 · only create batch files on Windows
309 · fix option and cache syntax
310 · add help-options target
311 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
312 own version (fd.o #41033)
314 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
315 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
317 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
319 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
320 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
322 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
323 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
325 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
326 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
327 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
329 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
330 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
331 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
332 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
335 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
336 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
337 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
339 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
341 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
343 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
344 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
345 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
348 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
352 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
353 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
354 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
355 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
356 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
357 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
358 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
359 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
360 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
361 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
362 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
363 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
364 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
365 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
366 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
367 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
370 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
371 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
372 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
375 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
378 The "cross-metering" release.
380 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
381 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
383 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
384 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
386 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
387 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
388 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
389 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
391 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
392 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
394 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
396 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
398 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
401 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
403 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
404 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
406 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
407 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
410 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
411 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
412 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
413 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
414 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
416 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
417 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
418 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
419 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
420 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
421 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
422 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
423 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
426 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
427 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
428 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
429 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
431 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
434 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
436 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
437 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
439 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
440 changes to work as intended):
442 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
443 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
444 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
445 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
446 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
450 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
451 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
452 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
453 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
454 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
455 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
457 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
458 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
459 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
461 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
462 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
463 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
465 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
468 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
469 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
471 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
472 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
474 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
475 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
476 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
479 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
481 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
482 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
484 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
485 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
487 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
488 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
489 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
491 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
493 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
494 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
495 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
496 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
499 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
500 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
501 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
502 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
503 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
505 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
506 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
507 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
509 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
512 Security (local denial of service):
514 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
515 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
516 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
517 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
521 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
522 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
523 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
525 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
526 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
527 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
528 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
532 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
533 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
535 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
536 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
537 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
538 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
539 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
541 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
542 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
544 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
545 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
547 • Windows-specific changes:
548 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
550 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
553 The "Boar Hunter" release.
555 Notes for distributors:
557 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
558 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
559 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
561 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
563 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
567 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
568 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
569 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
570 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
571 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
572 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
573 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
574 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
575 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
576 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
577 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
578 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
579 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
580 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
581 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
582 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
584 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
586 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
587 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
588 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
589 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
590 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
591 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
592 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
593 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
594 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
595 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
596 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
599 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
601 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
604 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
605 flying shark" release.
607 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
608 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
609 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
610 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
611 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
612 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
614 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
616 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
617 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
618 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
619 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
620 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
621 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
623 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
626 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
628 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
629 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
630 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
632 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
633 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
634 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
635 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
636 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
637 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
638 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
639 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
640 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
641 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
642 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
643 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
644 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
645 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
646 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
648 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
650 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
651 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
653 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
656 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
658 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
659 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
661 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
664 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
665 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
666 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
667 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
668 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
669 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
670 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
671 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
672 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
673 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
674 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
675 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
676 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
677 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
678 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
679 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
680 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
681 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
682 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
684 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
686 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
687 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
688 • Fix syslog string processing
690 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
691 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
693 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
695 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
697 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
699 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
702 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
703 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
704 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
705 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
707 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
708 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
711 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
715 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
717 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
718 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
719 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
721 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
723 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
724 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
725 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
726 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
727 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
728 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
729 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon