1 D-Bus 1.4.10 (UNRELEASED)
4 Notes for distributors:
6 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
7 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
8 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
10 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
12 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
16 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
17 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
18 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
19 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
20 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
21 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
22 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
23 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
24 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
25 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
27 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
28 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
29 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
30 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
31 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
32 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
33 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
34 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
35 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
36 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
37 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
40 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
42 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
45 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
47 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
48 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
49 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
51 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
52 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
53 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
54 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
55 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
56 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
57 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
58 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
59 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
60 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
61 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
62 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
63 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
64 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
65 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
67 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
69 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
70 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
72 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
75 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
77 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
78 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
80 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
83 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
84 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
85 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
86 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
87 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
88 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
89 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
90 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
91 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
92 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
93 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
94 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
95 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
96 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
97 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
98 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
99 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
100 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
101 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
103 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
105 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
106 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
107 • Fix syslog string processing
109 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
110 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
112 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
114 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
116 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
118 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
121 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
122 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
123 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
124 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
126 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
127 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
130 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
134 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
136 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
137 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
138 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
140 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
142 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
143 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
144 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
145 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
146 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
147 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
148 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon