1 D-Bus 1.1.20 - "Conisten Water" (27 Febuary)
4 - This is the next generation supported STABLE release of D-Bus. For all
5 intents and purposes this is the 1.2.0 release WITHOUT the planned X11/MIT
6 license change due to a couple of license holders who have yet to respond.
7 For the most part this license change is being persued to simplify licensing
8 issues and fix a couple of licensing courner cases. When this happens D-Bus
9 will be released under the 1.2.0 version.
11 - D-Bus 1.0.x effectively goes into security fix mode and will only be
12 updated for major issues.
14 - Fixed CVE-2008-0595 - security policy of the type <allow send_interface=
15 "some.interface.WithMethods"/> work as an implicit allow for
16 messages sent without an interface bypassing the default deny rules and
17 potentially allowing restricted methods exported on the bus to be executed
18 by unauthorized users.
20 - Fixes dbus-launch so the session bus goes away so does D-Bus
22 - Builds against latest gcc/glibc changes
24 - Correctly unref connections without guids during shutdown
26 - About the name: Submitted by Greg K Nicholson, Conisten Water is a lake in
27 Cumbria, England where several water speed records have been broken. Between
28 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in Bluebird K7, a hydroplane.
29 (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_Water#Waterspeed_record)
31 D-Bus 1.1.4 - 1.2.0RC2 (17 January 2007)
33 - Fixes inotify support
35 D-Bus 1.1.3 - 1.2.0RC1 (15 January 2007)
38 - This release is intended to be Release Candidate 1 of major release
39 D-Bus 1.2.0. If nothing is found to be wrong with this release it
40 will become 1.2.0 within a week. If we need to make major changes
41 we will release an RC2 and start the process over again.
43 - This is a development release, so API's may still change if problems
44 are found (though this is extreamly unlikely).
46 - DTD for the introspection format is fixed and uploaded to the servers
48 - Sources now reside in a git repository at
49 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=dbus/dbus.git;a=summary
51 - Argument path matching of the type arg0path='/aa/bb/' is now supported
52 (see the specification for more information)
54 - New error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ObjectPathInUse added
56 - Autolaunched busses now save their parameters in X11 if possible making them
57 behave closer to busses launched through the normal mechanisms
59 - inotify is now the default backend for watching configuration file changes
61 - More support for the AIX platform has been added
63 - Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements
65 D-Bus 1.1.2 (27 July 2007)
68 - This release is intended to be a feature complete beta for stable
69 release 1.2.0, please test it. 1.2.0 will follow pretty soon if no
70 major problems are found. We'll do more betas if significant
73 - This is a development release, so API's may still change if problems
74 are found (though we will try hard not to).
76 - The system bus now supports starting services on demand. This uses a
77 setuid helper program because system bus daemon runs as a nobody
78 user, while services it launches may need to run as a different
81 ***Extra eyes auditing the setuid helper are encouraged and would be
82 timely right now, before 1.2.0***
84 A design doc is available in doc/system-activation.txt
86 - The TCP address format has been enhanced, such that TCP may be
87 actually usable. The dbus-daemon man page describes the new
88 elements in the address format. 1.1.1 had added an all_interfaces
89 flag to the format, which has been removed in favor of a cleaner
92 - Some thread-related bugs have been fixed, these are important fixes
93 if you are using multiple threads with libdbus, and not important
97 D-Bus 1.1.1 (18 June 2007)
99 - This is a development release, unless you need specific
100 functionality please use the stable releases as API's may change
101 (though we will try hard not to)
102 - The bus daemon now generates a globally-unique ID for itself, which is available
103 using the convenience function dbus_bus_get_id(). Use this as a unique ID
104 for a user's session, for example.
105 - dbus_server_get_id(), dbus_connection_get_server_id() now available to access
106 the unique ID of a particular address
107 - dbus_watch_get_fd() deprecated since it had unclear cross-platform semantics.
108 dbus_watch_get_unix_fd() and dbus_watch_get_socket() replace it.
109 - support ANONYMOUS mechanism for authentication, which allows a client to
110 authenticate as nobody in particular
111 - add API dbus_connection_set_allow_anonymous() which will allow the message
112 stream to begin if the client auths as anonymous (otherwise, the client
113 will be dropped unless they auth as a user).
114 - the ANONYMOUS support means you can now use D-Bus (without a bus daemon) as
115 a protocol for a network service provided to anonymous Internet or LAN
117 - many internal changes to better support the Windows port, though the
118 port is still not complete in this release
119 - some improved documentation and return_if_fail checks
120 - some small bug fixes
122 D-Bus 1.1.0 (25 May 2007)
124 - first release in the development series, unless you need specific
125 functionality please use the stable releases as API's may change
126 (though we will try hard not to)
127 - better eavesdropping support now picks up reply messages for debugging
128 - .pc file now lists the directory the daemon is installed into (daemondir)
129 - GetAll call added to the properties interface
130 - support for message serialization added for use with external transports like