1 D-Bus 1.4.14 (UNRELEASED)
6 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
7 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE
8 (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
10 • Consistently use atomic operations on the refcounts of DBusPendingCall
11 and DBusServer, as was done for DBusConnection in 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005,
14 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
17 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
18 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
20 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
21 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
22 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
23 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
25 • Unix-specific (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie):
26 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris
28 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
29 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
30 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
32 D-Bus 1.4.12 (2011-06-10)
35 Security (local denial of service):
37 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
38 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
39 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
40 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
44 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
45 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
46 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
48 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
49 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
50 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
51 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
55 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
56 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
58 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
59 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
60 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
61 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
62 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
64 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
65 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
67 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
68 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
70 • Windows-specific changes:
71 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
73 D-Bus 1.4.10 (2011-06-01)
76 The "Ape Ale" release.
78 Notes for distributors:
80 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
81 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
82 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
84 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
86 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
90 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
91 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
92 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
93 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
94 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
95 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
96 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
97 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
98 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
99 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
101 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
103 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
104 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
105 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
106 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
107 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
108 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
109 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
110 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
111 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
112 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
113 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
116 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
118 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
121 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
123 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
124 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
125 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
127 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
128 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
129 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
130 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
131 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
132 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
133 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
134 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
135 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
136 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
137 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
138 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
139 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
140 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
141 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
143 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
145 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
146 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
148 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
151 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
153 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
154 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
156 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
159 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
160 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
161 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
162 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
163 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
164 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
165 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
166 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
167 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
168 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
169 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
170 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
171 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
172 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
173 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
174 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
175 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
176 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
177 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
179 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
181 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
182 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
183 • Fix syslog string processing
185 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
186 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
188 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
190 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
192 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
194 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
197 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
198 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
199 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
200 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
202 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
203 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
206 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
210 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
212 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
213 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
214 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
216 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
218 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
219 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
220 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
221 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
222 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
223 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
224 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon