1 D-Bus 1.11.14 (UNRELEASED)
6 • SELinux support requires at least libselinux 2.0.86 as explicit
7 refcounting for SID (sidput/sidget) has been removed from the code.
8 • Full test coverage now requires GLib 2.40.
10 Build-time configuration changes:
12 • We now use pkg-config to find libexpat in Autotools builds. This requires
13 Expat 2.1.0 (March 2012) or later. In particular, this should remove the
14 need to configure with LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib on OpenBSD, which can
15 itself cause compilation failures.
17 As with all pkg-config-based configure checks, you can use
18 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/whatever/lib/pkgconfig to find expat.pc in a
19 non-standard prefix, or EXPAT_CFLAGS="-I/whatever/include" and
20 EXPAT_LIBS="-L/whatever/lib -lexpat" to avoid needing a .pc file
23 (fd.o #69801, Simon McVittie)
25 • Similarly, we now use pkg-config to find libselinux.
29 • Previously, /etc/machine-id could be copied to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
30 as a side-effect of a sufficiently privileged process merely reading the
31 machine ID. It is no longer copied as a side-effect of reading.
32 Running dbus-uuidgen --ensure, which should be done after installing dbus,
33 continues to copy /etc/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id if the
34 former exists and the latter does not.
35 (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie)
37 • The undocumented Verbose interface, and the GetAllMatchRules method on
38 the undocumented Stats interface, must now be used via the object path
39 /org/freedesktop/DBus. Previously, they existed on all object paths.
40 (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie)
44 • D-Bus Specification version 0.31
45 · Don't require implementation-specific search paths to be lowest
47 · Correct regex syntax for optionally-escaped bytes in addresses so it
48 includes hyphen-minus, forward slash and underscore as intended
49 · Describe all message bus methods in the same section
50 · Clarify the correct object path for method calls to the message bus
51 (/org/freedesktop/DBus, DBUS_PATH_DBUS in the reference implementation)
52 · Document that the message bus implements Introspectable, Peer and
54 · Add new Features and Interfaces properties for message bus
56 (fd.o #99825, #100686, #100795, #101256, #101257;
57 Simon McVittie, Tom Gundersen)
59 • Implement the Properties and Peer interfaces in dbus-daemon
60 (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie)
62 • New function dbus_try_get_local_machine_id() is like
63 dbus_get_local_machine_id(), but returning a DBusError. Other code
64 that needs the machine ID will now report a recoverable error (instead
65 of logging to stderr and aborting) if dbus has not been installed
66 correctly. (fd.o #13194, Simon McVittie)
68 • Implement GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext("org.freedesktop.DBus")
69 (fd.o #101315, Laurent Bigonville)
71 • Avoid deprecated API calls when using SELinux
72 (fd.o #100912, Laurent Bigonville)
74 • Switch a test from the deprecated g_test_trap_fork() to
75 g_test_trap_subprocess(), for Windows support and better robustness
76 on Unix (fd.o #101362, Simon McVittie)
80 • Don't put timestamps in the Doxygen-generated documentation,
81 or hard-code the build directory into builds with embedded tests,
82 for reproducible builds (fd.o #100692, Simon McVittie)
84 • Fix some integration test issues (fd.o #100686, Simon McVittie)
86 • Fix memory leaks in the tests (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie)
88 • If we somehow get an autolaunch address with multiple semicolon-separated
89 components, and they don't work, don't invalidly "pile up" errors
90 (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie)
92 D-Bus 1.11.12 (2017-04-07)
95 The “it's something humans do” release.
99 • The session dbus-daemon now supports transient .service files
100 in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dbus-1/services. Unlike the other standard
101 service directories, this directory is not monitored with inotify
102 or similar, and the service files must be named exactly
103 ${bus_name}.service. (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie)
105 • dbus can be configured with --enable-relocation when building with
106 Autotools, or with -DDBUS_RELOCATABLE=ON when building with cmake,
107 to make the pkg-config metadata relocatable. This is useful for
108 non-standard prefixes, and in particular for Windows installations.
109 However, it is not recommended for system-wide installations into
110 /usr, because it interferes with pkg-config's ability to filter out
111 compiler default linker directories.
113 With Autotools, the default is --enable-relocation when building
114 for Windows or --disable-relocation otherwise. With CMake, the default
115 is -DDBUS_RELOCATABLE=ON.
117 (fd.o #99721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
119 • Users of CMake ≥ 2.6 can now link to libdbus without providing their
120 own FindDBus.cmake macros, whether dbus was compiled with Autotools
121 or with CMake. See the end of README.cmake for more information.
122 (fd.o #99721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
126 • Always read service file directories in the intended order
127 (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie)
129 • When tests are skipped, don't try to kill nonexistent process 0
130 (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie)
132 • Avoid valgrind false positives (fd.o #88808, Philip Withnall)
134 • Fix a harmless read overflow and some memory leaks in a unit test
135 (fd.o #100568, Philip Withnall)
137 • Fix some typos in test code
138 (fd.o #99999, Coverity #141876, #141877; Philip Withnall)
140 • Clarify the roles of /etc/dbus-1/s*.d and /usr/share/dbus-1/s*.d
141 in documentation (fd.o #99901, Philip Withnall)
143 • Fix and enable compiler warnings related to -Wswitch
144 (fd.o #98191; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie)
146 • Fix writing off the end of a fd_set when testing with valgrind
147 (fd.o #99839, Philip Withnall)
149 D-Bus 1.11.10 (2017-02-16)
152 The “purple hair gives you telekinesis?” release.
156 • AppArmor support requires at least libapparmor 2.8.95, reduced
157 from 2.10 in previous versions. One test requires 2.10 and is
158 skipped if building with an older version.
162 • Do the Travis-CI build in Docker containers for Ubuntu LTS, Debian
163 stable and Debian testing in addition to the older Ubuntu that is
164 the default (fd.o #98889, Simon McVittie)
166 • Avoid some deprecated CMake functions (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker)
168 • Silence many -Wswitch-enum and -Wswitch-default warnings
169 (fd.o #98191; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie)
171 • Install a sysusers.d snippet so `dbus-daemon --system` can be used
172 with an unpopulated /etc (fd.o #99162, Lennart Poettering)
174 • Install pkg-config metadata on Unix even if building with CMake
175 (fd.o #99752, Ralf Habacker)
177 • Exclude auth mechanisms from REJECTED message if they are supported
178 in the code but but configured to be disallowed (fd.o #99621,
183 • Prevent symlink attacks in the nonce-tcp transport on Unix that could
184 allow an attacker to overwrite a file named "nonce", in a directory
185 that the user running dbus-daemon can write, with a random value
186 known only to the user running dbus-daemon. This is unlikely to be
187 exploitable in practice, particularly since the nonce-tcp transport
188 is really only useful on Windows.
190 On Unix systems we strongly recommend using only the unix: and systemd:
191 transports, together with EXTERNAL authentication. These are the only
192 transports and authentication mechanisms enabled by default.
194 (fd.o #99828, Simon McVittie)
196 • Avoid symlink attacks in the "embedded tests", which are not enabled
197 by default and should never be enabled in production builds of dbus.
198 (fd.o #99828, Simon McVittie)
200 • Fix the implementation of re-enabling a timeout so that its
201 countdown is restarted as intended, instead of continually
202 decreasing. (fd.o #95619; Michal Koutný, Simon McVittie)
204 • When receiving a message with file descriptors, do not start reading
205 the beginning of the next message, so that only one such message
206 is processed at a time. In conjunction with the fix for #95619
207 this means that processes sending many file descriptors, such as
208 systemd-logind on a system that receives very rapid ssh connections,
209 are not treated as abusive and kicked off the bus. Revert the previous
210 workaround that special-cased uid 0.
211 (fd.o #95263, LP#1591411; Simon McVittie)
213 • Do not require TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP to be set when cross-compiling
214 for Windows with CMake (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker)
216 • Do not set Unix-specific variables when targeting Windows
217 (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker)
219 • Install Unix executables to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin as intended,
220 not ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib (fd.o #99752, Ralf Habacker)
222 • Use relative install locations in CMake on Unix to respect DESTDIR,
223 and use GNU-style install layout (fd.o #99721, #99752; Ralf Habacker)
225 • Install dbus-arch-deps.h correctly when using CMake
226 (fd.o #99586, #99721; Ralf Habacker)
228 • Improve argument validation for `dbus-test-tool spam`
229 (ffd.o #99693, Coverity #54759; Philip Withnall)
231 • Don't shift by a negative integer if a hash table becomes monstrously
232 large (fd.o #99641, Coverity #54682; Philip Withnall)
234 • Don't leak LSM label if dbus-daemon runs out of memory when dealing with
235 a new connection (fd.o #99612, Coverity #141058; Philip Withnall)
237 • Remove an unnecessary NULL check
238 (fd.o #99642, Coverity #141062; Philip Withnall)
240 • Improve error handling in unit tests and dbus-send
241 (fd.o #99643, #99694, #99712, #99722, #99723, #99724, #99758,
242 #99759, #99793, Coverity #54688, #54692, #54693, #54697, #54701,
243 #54710, #54711, #54714, #54715, #54718, #54721, #54724, #54726,
244 #54730, #54740, #54822, #54823, #54824, #54825; Philip Withnall)
246 • Do not print verbose messages' timestamps to stderr if the actual message
247 has been redirected to the Windows debug port (fd.o #99749, Ralf Habacker)
249 D-Bus 1.11.8 (2016-11-28)
252 The “panics in the face of breakfast foods” release.
254 Build-time configuration:
256 • The new --enable-debug configure option provides an easy way to
257 enable debug symbols, disable optimization and/or enable profiling.
259 • The --enable-compile-warnings configure option can be used to control
262 • The --disable-compiler-optimisations configure option is no longer
263 supported. Use --enable-debug=yes or CFLAGS=-O0 instead.
267 • D-Bus Specification version 0.30
268 · Define the jargon term "activation" more clearly
269 · Define the jargon term "auto-starting", which is one form of activation
270 · Document the optional SystemdService key in service files
271 · Use versioned interface and bus names in most examples
272 · Clarify intended behaviour of Properties.GetAll
273 (fd.o #36190, fd.o #98671; Philip Withnall, Simon McVittie)
275 • Fix and enable a lot of compiler warnings to improve future code
276 quality. This might incidentally also fix some environment variable
278 · In particular, printf-style functions in the libdbus API are now annotated
279 with __attribute__((__format__(__printf__, *, *))) when compiling with
280 gcc or clang. This might make printf bugs in other software visible
282 (fd.o #97357, fd.o #98192, fd.o #98195, fd.o #98658;
283 Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie)
285 • When running with AppArmor mediation (for example using Ubuntu's patched
286 Linux kernel), clients can no longer auto-start services unless they would
287 have been able to send the auto-starting message to the service after it
288 starts. StartServiceByName() is unaffected, and continues to be allowed by
289 default in AppArmor's <abstractions/dbus-strict> and
290 <abstractions/dbus-session-strict>. (fd.o #98666, Simon McVittie)
294 • Work around an undesired effect of the fix for CVE-2014-3637
295 (fd.o #80559), in which processes that frequently send fds, such as
296 logind during a flood of new PAM sessions, can get disconnected for
297 continuously having at least one fd "in flight" for too long;
298 dbus-daemon interprets that as a potential denial of service attack.
299 The workaround is to disable that check for uid 0 process such as
300 logind, with a message in the system log. The bug remains open while
301 we look for a more general solution.
302 (fd.o #95263, LP#1591411; Simon McVittie)
304 • Don't run the test test-dbus-launch-x11.sh if X11 autolaunching
305 was disabled at compile time. That test is not expected to work
306 in that configuration. (fd.o #98665, Simon McVittie)
308 D-Bus 1.11.6 (2016-10-10)
311 The “darkly whimsical” release.
315 • Do not treat ActivationFailure message received from root-owned systemd
316 name as a format string. In principle this is a security vulnerability,
317 but we do not believe it is exploitable in practice, because only
318 privileged processes can own the org.freedesktop.systemd1 bus name, and
319 systemd does not appear to send activation failures that contain "%".
321 Please note that this probably *was* exploitable in dbus versions
322 older than 1.6.30, 1.8.16 and 1.9.10 due to a missing check which at
323 the time was only thought to be a denial of service vulnerability
324 (CVE-2015-0245). If you are still running one of those versions,
325 patch or upgrade immediately.
327 (fd.o #98157, Simon McVittie)
331 • D-Bus Specification version 0.29
332 · Recommend not using '/' for object paths (fd.o #37095, Philip Withnall)
333 · Allow <annotation> in <arg> elements (fd.o #86162, Philip Withnall)
335 • Log to syslog when we exceed various anti-DoS limits, and add test
336 coverage for them (fd.o #86442, Simon McVittie)
338 • Improve syslog handling so that _dbus_warn() and similar warnings
339 go to syslog, add dbus-daemon --syslog|--nosyslog|--syslog-only options,
340 and log to syslog (instead of /dev/null) when dbus-daemon is started by
341 dbus-launch. (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie)
343 • Install introspect.dtd and busconfig.dtd to ${datadir}/xml/dbus-1
344 (fd.o #89011, Philip Withnall)
346 • When logging messages about service activation, mention which peer
347 requested the activation (fd.o #68212, Philip Withnall)
349 • On Linux, mention the LSM label (if available) whenever we print
350 debug information about a peer (fd.o #68212, Philip Withnall)
354 • Harden dbus-daemon against malicious or incorrect ActivationFailure
355 messages by rejecting them if they do not come from a privileged
356 process, or if systemd activation is not enabled
357 (fd.o #98157, Simon McVittie)
359 • Avoid undefined behaviour when setting reply serial number without going
360 via union DBusBasicValue (fd.o #98035, Marc Mutz)
362 • Fix CMake build for Unix platforms that do not have -lrt, such as Android,
363 or that do need -lsocket, such as QNX (fd.o #94096, Ralf Habacker)
365 • autogen.sh: fail cleanly if autoconf fails (Simon McVittie)
367 D-Bus 1.11.4 (2016-08-15)
370 The “copper pickaxe” release.
374 • Building from git (but not from tarballs) now requires
375 macros from the GNU Autoconf Archive, for example the autoconf-archive
376 package in Debian or Fedora derivatives.
378 Build-time configuration:
380 • The option to enable coverage instrumentation has changed from
381 --enable-compiler-coverage to --enable-code-coverage.
385 • D-Bus Specification version 0.28
386 · Clarify some details of serialization (fd.o #93382, Philip Withnall)
388 • Increase listen() backlog of AF_UNIX sockets to the maximum possible,
389 minimizing failed connections under heavy load
390 (fd.o #95264, Lennart Poettering)
392 • Add a new dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 option (fd.o #39197, Simon McVittie)
394 • Use the same regression tests for subprocess starting on Unix and Windows
395 (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker)
397 • Print timestamps and thread IDs in verbose messages
398 (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker)
400 • On Unix, unify the various places that reopen stdin, stdout and/or stderr
401 pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #97008, Simon McVittie)
403 • Use AX_CODE_COVERAGE instead of our own COMPILER_COVERAGE
404 (fd.o #88922, Thomas Zimmermann)
408 • On Windows, fix a memory leak in replacing the installation prefix
409 (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker)
411 • On Linux, when dbus-daemon is run with reduced susceptibility to the
412 OOM killer (typically via systemd), do not let child processes inherit
413 that setting (fd.o #32851; Kimmo Hämäläinen, WaLyong Cho)
415 • On Unix, make dbus-launch and dbus-daemon --fork work as intended
416 even if a parent process incorrectly starts them with stdin, stdout
417 and/or stderr closed (fd.o #97008, Simon McVittie)
419 • Output valid shell syntax in ~/.dbus/session-bus/ if the bus address
420 contains a semicolon (fd.o #94746, Thiago Macieira)
422 • Fix memory leaks and thread safety in subprocess starting on Windows
423 (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker)
425 • Stop test-dbus-daemon incorrectly failing on platforms that cannot
426 discover the process ID of clients (fd.o #96653, Руслан Ижбулатов)
428 • In tests that exercise correct handling of crashing D-Bus services,
429 suppress Windows crash handler (fd.o #95155; Yiyang Fei, Ralf Habacker)
431 • Explicitly check for stdint.h (Ioan-Adrian Ratiu)
433 • In tests, add an invalid DBusAuthState to avoid undefined behaviour
434 in some test cases (fd.o #93909, Nick Lewycky)
436 • Add assertions to reassure a static analysis tool
437 (fd.o #93210, Deepika Aggarwal)
439 • Be explicit about enum comparison when loading XML
440 (fd.o #93205, Deepika Aggarwal)
442 • update-activation-environment: produce better diagnostics on error
443 (fd.o #96653, Simon McVittie)
445 • Avoid various compiler warnings with gcc 6
446 (fd.o #97282; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie)
448 • On Unix when configured to use the system log, report as "dbus-daemon",
449 not as "dbus" (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie)
451 • During unit tests, reduce the amount we write to the system log
452 (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie)
454 D-Bus 1.11.2 (2016-03-07)
457 The “pneumatic drill vs. Iron Maiden” release.
461 • Enable "large file support" on systems where it exists: dbus-daemon
462 is not expected to open large files, but it might need to stat files
463 that happen to have large inode numbers (fd.o #93545, Hongxu Jia)
465 • Eliminate padding inside DBusMessageIter on 64-bit platforms,
466 which might result in a pedantic C compiler not copying the entire contents
467 of a DBusMessageIter; statically assert that this is not an ABI change
468 in practice (fd.o #94136, Simon McVittie)
470 • Document dbus-test-tool echo --sleep-ms=N instead of incorrect --sleep=N
471 (fd.o #94244, Dmitri Iouchtchenko)
473 • Correctly report test failures in C tests from run-test.sh
474 (fd.o #93379; amit tewari, Simon McVittie)
476 • When tests are enabled, run all the marshal-validate tests, not just
477 the even-numbered ones (fd.o #93908, Nick Lewycky)
479 • Correct the expected error from one marshal-validate test, which was
480 previously not run due to the above bug (fd.o #93908, Simon McVittie)
482 • Fix compilation under CMake when embedded tests are disabled
483 (fd.o #94094, eric.hyer)
487 • Fix all -Wpointer-sign (signed/unsigned mismatch) warnings, and enable the
488 warning (fd.o #93069; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
490 • When building with CMake, use the same gcc/clang warnings as under Autotools,
491 or MSVC warnings that are broadly similar (fd.o #93069, Ralf Habacker)
493 • test/name-test: make C tests produce TAP output and run them directly, not
494 via run-test.sh (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie)
496 • Under CMake when cross-compiling for Windows on Unix, run the tests
497 under Wine even if binfmt_misc support is not available
498 (fd.o #88966, Ralf Habacker)
500 • The DBUS_USE_TEST_BINARY environment variable is no longer used by builds with
501 embedded tests; DBUS_TEST_DBUS_LAUNCH replaces it (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie)
503 • Factor out some functions that will be needed in future for a Windows
504 implementation of dbus-run-session (fd.o #92899, Ralf Habacker)
506 D-Bus 1.11.0 (2015-12-02)
509 The “peppermint deer” release.
513 • On non-Windows platforms, dbus now requires an <inttypes.h> that defines
514 C99 constants such as PRId64 and PRIu64.
518 • D-Bus Specification version 0.27
519 · Specify that services should not reply if NO_REPLY_EXPECTED was used
520 (fd.o #75749, Lars Uebernickel)
522 • Add a script to do continuous-integration builds, and metadata to run it
523 on travis-ci.org. To use this, clone the dbus git repository on GitHub
524 and set it up with travis-ci.org; the only special setting needed is
525 "only build branches with a .travis.yml". (fd.o #93194, Simon McVittie)
527 • If dbus-daemon is run with --systemd-activation, do not require
528 org.freedesktop.systemd1.service to exist (fd.o #93194, Simon McVittie)
532 • Re-order dbus-daemon startup so that on SELinux systems, the thread
533 that reads AVC notifications retains the ability to write to the
534 audit log (fd.o #92832, Laurent Bigonville)
536 • Print 64-bit integers on non-GNU Unix platforms (fd.o #92043, Natanael Copa)
538 • When using the Monitoring interface, match messages' destinations
539 (fd.o #92074, Simon McVittie)
541 • On Linux with systemd, stop installing a reference to the obsolete
542 dbus.target, and enable dbus.socket statically (fd.o #78412, #92402;
545 • On Windows, when including configuration files with <include> or
546 <includedir>, apply the same relocation as for the Exec paths
547 in .service files (fd.o #92028, Simon McVittie)
549 • Add support for backtraces on Windows (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker)
551 • Fix many -Wpointer-sign warnings (fd.o #93069, Ralf Habacker)
553 D-Bus 1.10.6 (2015-12-01)
556 The “marzipan beetles” release.
560 • On Unix when running tests as root, don't assert that root and
561 the dbus-daemon user can still call UpdateActivationEnvironment;
562 assert that those privileged users can call BecomeMonitor instead
563 (fd.o #93036, Simon McVittie)
565 • On Windows, fix a memory leak in the autolaunch transport (fd.o #92899,
568 • On Windows Autotools builds, don't run tests that rely on
569 dbus-run-session and other Unix-specifics (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie)
571 D-Bus 1.10.4 (2015-11-17)
574 The “Frostburn Canyon” release.
578 • GetConnectionCredentials, GetConnectionUnixUser and
579 GetConnectionUnixProcessID with argument "org.freedesktop.DBus"
580 will now return details of the dbus-daemon itself. This is required
581 to be able to call SetEnvironment on systemd.
582 (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens)
586 • Make UpdateActivationEnvironment always fail with AccessDenied on the
587 system bus. Previously, it was possible to configure it so root could
588 call it, but the environment variables were not actually used,
589 because the launch helper would discard them.
590 (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens)
592 • On Unix with --systemd-activation on a user bus, make
593 UpdateActivationEnvironment pass on its arguments to systemd's
594 SetEnvironment method, solving inconsistency between the environments
595 used for traditional activation and systemd user-service activation.
596 (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens)
598 • On Windows, don't crash if <syslog/> or --syslog is used
599 (fd.o #92538, Ralf Habacker)
601 • On Windows, fix a memory leak when setting a DBusError from a Windows
602 error (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker)
604 • On Windows, don't go into infinite recursion if we abort the process
605 with backtraces enabled (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker)
607 • Fix various failing tests, variously on Windows and cross-platform:
608 · don't test system.conf features (users, groups) that only make sense
609 on the system bus, which is not supported on Windows
610 · don't call _dbus_warn() when we skip a test, since it is fatal
611 · fix computation of expected <standard_session_servicedirs/>
612 · when running TAP tests, translate newlines to Unix format, fixing
613 cross-compiled tests under Wine on Linux
614 · don't stress-test refcounting under Wine, where it's really slow
615 · stop assuming that a message looped-back to the test will be received
617 · skip some system bus tests on Windows since they make no sense there
618 (fd.o #92538, fd.o #92721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
620 D-Bus 1.10.2 (2015-10-26)
623 The “worst pies in London” release.
627 • Correct error handling for activation: if there are multiple attempts
628 to activate the same service and it fails immediately, the first attempt
629 would get the correct reply, but the rest would time out. We now send
630 the same error reply to each attempt. (fd.o #92200, Simon McVittie)
632 • If BecomeMonitor is called with a syntactically invalid match rule,
633 don't crash with an assertion failure, fixing a regression in 1.9.10.
634 This was not exploitable as a denial of service, because the check
635 for a privileged user is done first. (fd.o #92298, Simon McVittie)
637 • On Linux with --enable-user-session, add the bus address to the
638 environment of systemd services for better backwards compatibility
639 (fd.o #92612, Jan Alexander Steffens)
641 • On Windows, fix the logic for replacing the installation prefix
642 in service files' Exec lines (fd.o #83539; Milan Crha, Simon McVittie)
644 • On Windows, if installed in the conventional layout with ${prefix}/etc
645 and ${prefix}/share, use relative paths between bus configuration files
646 to allow the tree to be relocated (fd.o #92028, Simon McVittie)
648 • Make more of the regression tests pass in Windows builds (fd.o #92538,
651 D-Bus 1.10.0 (2015-08-25)
656 This is a new stable branch, recommended for use in OS distributions.
660 • distribute test/tap-test.sh.in, even if the tarball was built without
661 tests enabled (fd.o #91684, Simon McVittie)
662 • work around a fd leak in libcap-ng < 0.7.7 (fd.o #91684, Simon McVittie)
664 Summary of major changes since 1.8.0:
666 • The basic setup for the well-known system and session buses is
667 now done in read-only files in ${datadir} (normally /usr/share).
668 See the NEWS entry for 1.9.18 for details.
670 • AppArmor integration has been merged, with features similar to the
671 pre-existing SELinux integration. It is mostly compatible with the
672 patches previously shipped by Ubuntu, with one significant change:
673 Ubuntu's GetConnectionAppArmorSecurityContext method has been superseded
674 by GetConnectionCredentials and was not included.
676 • The --enable-user-session configure option can be enabled
677 by OS integrators intending to use systemd to provide a session bus
678 per user (in effect, treating all concurrent graphical and non-graphical
679 login sessions as one large session).
681 • The new listenable address mode "unix:runtime=yes" listens on
682 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus, the same AF_UNIX socket used by the systemd
683 user session. libdbus and "dbus-launch --autolaunch" will connect to
684 this address by default. GLib ≥ 2.45.3 and sd-bus ≥ 209 have a
687 • All executables are now dynamically linked to libdbus-1.
688 Previously, some executables, most notably dbus-daemon, were statically
689 linked to a specially-compiled variant of libdbus. This results in
690 various private functions in the _dbus namespace being exposed by the
691 shared library. These are not API, and must not be used outside
692 the dbus source tree.
694 • On platforms with ELF symbol versioning, all public symbols
695 are versioned LIBDBUS_1_3.
699 • org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials returns
700 LinuxSecurityLabel where supported
701 • org.freedesktop.DBus.Monitoring interface (privileged)
702 · BecomeMonitor method supersedes match rules with eavesdrop=true,
703 which are now deprecated
704 • org.freedesktop.DBus.Stats interface (semi-privileged)
705 · now enabled by default
706 · new GetAllMatchRules method
707 • org.freedesktop.DBus.Verbose interface (not normally compiled)
708 · toggles the effect of DBUS_VERBOSE
713 • dbus-update-activation-environment
715 New optional dependencies:
717 • The systemd: pseudo-transport requires libsystemd or libsd-daemon
718 • Complete documentation requires Ducktype and yelp-tools
719 • Full test coverage requires GLib 2.36 and PyGI
720 • AppArmor integration requires libapparmor and optionally libaudit
722 Dependencies removed:
726 D-Bus 1.9.20 (2015-08-06)
729 The “Remember Tomorrow” release.
731 This is a release-candidate for D-Bus 1.10.0. OS distribution vendors
736 • Don't second-guess what the ABI of poll() is, allowing it to be used
737 on Integrity RTOS and other unusual platforms (fd.o #90314;
738 Rolland Dudemaine, Simon McVittie)
740 • Don't duplicate audit subsystem integration if AppArmor and SELinux are
741 both enabled (fd.o #89225, Simon McVittie)
743 • Log audit events for AppArmor/SELinux policy violations whenever
744 we have CAP_AUDIT_WRITE, even if not the system bus
745 (fd.o #83856, Laurent Bigonville)
747 D-Bus 1.9.18 (2015-07-21)
750 The “Pirate Elite” release.
752 Configuration changes:
754 • The basic setup for the well-known system and session buses is now done
755 in read-only files in ${datadir}, moving a step closer to systems
756 that can operate with an empty /etc directory. In increasing order
759 · ${datadir}/dbus-1/s*.conf now perform the basic setup such as setting
760 the default message policies.
761 · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*.conf are now optional. By default
762 dbus still installs a trivial version of each, for documentation
763 purposes; putting configuration directives in these files is deprecated.
764 · ${datadir}/dbus-1/s*.d/ are now available for third-party software
765 to install "drop-in" configuration snippets (any packages
766 using those directories should explicitly depend on at least this
768 · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*.d/ are also still available for sysadmins
769 or third-party software to install "drop-in" configuration snippets
770 · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*-local.conf are still available for sysadmins'
773 ${datadir} is normally /usr/share, ${sysconfdir} is normally /etc,
774 and "s*" refers to either system or session as appropriate.
776 (fd.o #89280, Dimitri John Ledkov)
780 • Fix a memory leak when GetConnectionCredentials() succeeds
781 (fd.o #91008, Jacek Bukarewicz)
783 • Ensure that dbus-monitor does not reply to messages intended for others,
784 resulting in its own disconnection (fd.o #90952, Simon McVittie)
786 D-Bus 1.9.16 (2015-05-14)
789 The “titanium barns” release.
793 • Automake 1.13 is now required when compiling from git or modifying
798 • On Unix platforms, change the default configuration for the session bus
799 to only allow EXTERNAL authentication (secure kernel-mediated
800 credentials-passing), as was already done for the system bus.
802 This avoids falling back to DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, which relies on strongly
803 unpredictable pseudo-random numbers.
805 If you are using D-Bus over the (unencrypted!) tcp: or nonce-tcp: transport,
806 in conjunction with DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 and a shared home directory using
807 NFS or similar, you will need to reconfigure the session bus to accept
808 DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 by commenting out the <auth> element. This configuration
811 (fd.o #90414, Simon McVittie)
813 • When asked for random numbers for DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, the nonce-tcp:
814 transport, UUIDs or any other reason, fail if we cannot obtain entropy
815 (from /dev/urandom or CryptGenRandom()) or an out-of-memory condition
816 occurs, instead of silently falling back to low-entropy pseudorandom
817 numbers from rand(). (fd.o #90414; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
821 • Add dbus_message_iter_get_element_count()
822 (fd.o #30350; Christian Dywan, Simon McVittie)
824 • Introduce new internal DBusSocket and DBusPollable types so we can
825 stop treating the Windows SOCKET type as if it was int. DBusSocket
826 is specifically a socket, cross-platform. DBusPollable is whatever
827 _dbus_poll() can act on, i.e. a fd on Unix or a SOCKET on Windows.
828 (fd.o #89444; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
830 • All regression tests now output TAP <https://testanything.org/>
831 (fd.o #89846, Simon McVittie)
833 • Internal APIs consistently use signed values for timestamps
834 (fd.o #18494, Peter McCurdy)
836 • Improve diagnostics when UpdateActivationEnvironment calls are rejected
837 (fd.o #88812, Simon McVittie)
839 • Clean up a lot of compiler warnings
840 (fd.o #17289, fd.o #89284; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
844 • Add locking to DBusCounter's reference count and notify function
845 (fd.o #89297, Adrian Szyndela)
847 • Ensure that DBusTransport's reference count is protected by the
848 corresponding DBusConnection's lock (fd.o #90312, Adrian Szyndela)
850 • Correctly release DBusServer mutex before early-return if we run out
851 of memory while copying authentication mechanisms (fd.o #90021,
854 • Make dbus-test-tool and dbus-update-activation-environment portable
855 to Windows (fd.o #90089, Ralf Habacker)
857 • Correctly initialize all fields of DBusTypeReader (fd.o #90021;
858 Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
860 • Fix some missing \n in verbose (debug log) messages (fd.o #90004,
863 • Clean up some memory and fd leaks in test code and tools
864 (fd.o #90021, Ralf Habacker)
866 • Fix a NULL dereference if the dbus-daemon cannot read a configuration
867 directory for a reason that is not ENOENT (fd.o #90021, Ralf Habacker)
869 • CMake generates a versioned shared library even if the revision is 0,
870 as it usually is on the development branch. (fd.o #89450, Ralf Habacker)
872 D-Bus 1.9.14 (2015-03-02)
875 The “don't stand in the poison cloud” release.
879 • dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper now require libdbus. They
880 were previously linked to a static version of libdbus.
882 • The tests no longer require dbus-glib in order to exercise the libdbus
883 shared library; they are always linked to libdbus now.
885 Build-time configuration:
887 • The new --enable-user-session option, off by default, can be enabled
888 by OS integrators intending to use systemd to provide a session bus
889 per user (in effect, treating all concurrent graphical and non-graphical
890 login sessions as one large session)
894 • All executables are now linked dynamically to libdbus.
895 (fd.o #83115; Bertrand SIMONNET, Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
897 • On platforms that support them (GNU libc and possibly others),
898 libdbus now has versioned symbols for its public API.
899 All public symbols (visible in the header files) are currently
900 versioned as LIBDBUS_1_3; private symbols starting with _dbus or
901 dbus_internal have a version that changes with each release, and
902 must not be used by applications. (also fd.o #83115)
904 • New listenable address mode "unix:runtime=yes" which listens on
905 a real filesystem (non-abstract) socket $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus
906 (fd.o #61303; Colin Walters, Alexander Larsson, Simon McVittie)
908 • Add optional systemd units for a per-user bus listening on
909 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus (fd.o #61301; Simon McVittie, Colin Walters)
911 • On Unix platforms, both libdbus and "dbus-launch --autolaunch"
912 default to connecting to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus if it is a socket
915 • New dbus-update-activation-environment tool uploads environment
916 variables to "dbus-daemon --session" and optionally "systemd --user",
917 primarily as a way to keep the per-user bus compatible with
918 distributions' existing X11 login scripts (also fd.o #61301)
920 • <includedir/> elements in dbus-daemon configuration are now silently
921 ignored if the directory does not exist. (fd.o #89280, Dimitri John Ledkov)
923 • Add microsecond-resolution timestamps to the default output of
924 dbus-monitor and dbus-send (fd.o #88896; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
928 • Fix a race condition in the 'monitor' test introduced in 1.9.10
929 (fd.o #89222, Simon McVittie)
931 D-Bus 1.9.12 (2015-02-19)
934 The “monster lasagna” release.
938 • Ducktype and yelp-tools are now required to build complete documentation
939 (they are optional for normal builds).
943 • D-Bus Specification version 0.26
944 · GetConnectionCredentials can return LinuxSecurityLabel or WindowsSID
945 · document the BecomeMonitor method
947 • On Linux, add LinuxSecurityLabel to GetConnectionCredentials
948 (fd.o #89041; Tyler Hicks, Simon McVittie)
950 • On Linux, add support for AppArmor mediation of message sending and
951 receiving and name ownership (paralleling existing SELinux mediation
952 support), and eavesdropping (a new check, currently AppArmor-specific)
953 (fd.o #75113; John Johansen, Tyler Hicks, Simon McVittie)
955 • In dbus-send and dbus-monitor, pretty-print \0-terminated bytestrings
956 that have printable ASCII contents; we previously only did this for
957 unterminated bytestrings (fd.o #89109, Simon McVittie)
959 • Add a guide to designing good D-Bus APIs (fd.o #88994, Philip Withnall)
961 • On Windows, add WindowsSID to GetConnectionCredentials
962 (fd.o #54445, Ralf Habacker)
964 • Improve clarity of dbus-monitor --profile output and add more columns
965 (fd.o #89165, Ralf Habacker)
967 • Add a man page for dbus-test-tool, and build it under CMake as well
968 as Autotools (fd.o#89086, Simon McVittie)
970 • If dbus-daemon was compiled with --enable-verbose, add a D-Bus API
971 to control it at runtime, overriding the DBUS_VERBOSE environment variable
972 (fd.o #88896, Ralf Habacker)
976 • Reduce the number of file descriptors used in the fd-passing test,
977 avoiding failure under the default Linux fd limit, and automatically
978 skip it if the rlimit is too small (fd.o #88998, Simon McVittie)
980 D-Bus 1.9.10 (2015-02-09)
983 The “sad cyborgs” release.
985 Security fixes merged from 1.8.16:
987 • Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure
988 messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would
989 allow a local denial of service: unprivileged processes could
990 flood the bus with these forged messages, winning the race with
991 the actual service activation and causing an error reply
992 to be sent back when service auto-activation was requested.
993 This does not prevent the real service from being started,
994 so the attack only works while the real service is not running.
995 (CVE-2015-0245, fd.o #88811; Simon McVittie)
999 • The new Monitoring interface in the dbus-daemon lets dbus-monitor and
1000 similar tools receive messages without altering the security properties
1001 of the system bus, by calling the new BecomeMonitor method on a
1002 private connection. This bypasses the normal <allow> and <deny> rules
1003 entirely, so to preserve normal message-privacy assumptions, only root
1004 is allowed to do this on the system bus. Restricted environments,
1005 such as Linux with LSMs, should lock down access to the Monitoring
1006 interface. (fd.o #46787, Simon McVittie)
1008 • dbus-monitor uses BecomeMonitor to capture more traffic, if the
1009 dbus-daemon supports it and access permissions allow it.
1010 It still supports the previous approach ("eavesdropping" match rules)
1011 for compatibility with older bus daemons. (fd.o #46787, Simon)
1013 • dbus-monitor can now log the message stream as binary data for later
1014 analysis, with either no extra framing beyond the normal D-Bus headers,
1015 or libpcap-compatible framing treating each D-Bus message
1016 as a captured packet. (fd.o #46787, Simon)
1020 • Fix some CMake build regressions (fd.o #88964, Ralf Habacker)
1022 • On Unix, forcibly terminate regression tests after 60 seconds to
1023 prevent them from blocking continuous integration frameworks
1024 (fd.o #46787, Simon)
1026 D-Bus 1.9.8 (2015-02-03)
1029 The “all the types of precipitation” release.
1033 • full test coverage now requires GLib 2.36
1034 • full test coverage now requires PyGI (PyGObject 3,
1035 "import gi.repository.GObject") instead of the
1036 obsolete PyGObject 2 ("import gobject")
1040 • add GLib-style "installed tests" (fd.o #88810, Simon McVittie)
1042 • better regression test coverage, including systemd activation
1043 (fd.o #57952, #88810; Simon McVittie)
1047 • fatal errors correctly make the dbus-daemon exit even if <syslog/> is
1048 turned off (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie)
1050 • TCP sockets on Windows no longer fail to listen approximately 1 time
1051 in 256, caused by a logic error that should have always made it fail but
1052 was mitigated by incorrect endianness for the port number
1053 (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker)
1055 • fix some Windows build failures (fd.o #88009, #88010; Ralf Habacker)
1057 • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of the
1058 previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under
1059 Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker)
1061 • on Windows, if the IP family is unspecified only use IPv4,
1062 to mitigate IPv6 not working correctly (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker)
1064 • fix some unlikely memory leaks on OOM (fd.o #88087, Simon McVittie)
1066 • lcov code coverage analysis works again (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie)
1068 • fix an unused function error with --disable-embedded-tests (fd.o #87837,
1071 D-Bus 1.9.6 (2015-01-05)
1074 The “I do have a bread knife” release.
1078 • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment from uids other than
1079 the uid of the dbus-daemon. If a system service installs unsafe
1080 security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
1081 (such as CVE-2014-8148) then this prevents memory consumption and
1082 possible privilege escalation via UpdateActivationEnvironment.
1084 We believe that in practice, privilege escalation here is avoided
1085 by dbus-daemon-launch-helper sanitizing its environment; but
1086 it seems better to be safe.
1088 • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats interface
1089 on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus. Some system services
1090 install unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
1091 to any destination, method and interface with a specified object path;
1092 while less bad than allowing arbitrary method calls, these security
1093 policies are still harmful, since dbus-daemon normally offers the
1094 same API on all object paths and other system services might behave
1099 • Add missing initialization so GetExtendedTcpTable doesn't crash on
1100 Windows Vista SP0 (fd.o #77008, Илья А. Ткаченко)
1102 D-Bus 1.9.4 (2014-11-24)
1105 The “extra-sturdy caramel” release.
1109 • Partially revert the CVE-2014-3639 patch by increasing the default
1110 authentication timeout on the system bus from 5 seconds back to 30
1111 seconds, since this has been reported to cause boot regressions for
1112 some users, mostly with parallel boot (systemd) on slower hardware.
1114 On fast systems where local users are considered particularly hostile,
1115 administrators can return to the 5 second timeout (or any other value
1116 in milliseconds) by saving this as /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf:
1119 <limit name="auth_timeout">5000</limit>
1122 (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie)
1124 • Add a message in syslog/the Journal when the auth_timeout is exceeded
1125 (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie)
1127 • Send back an AccessDenied error if the addressed recipient is not allowed
1128 to receive a message (and in builds with assertions enabled, don't
1129 assert under the same conditions). (fd.o #86194, Jacek Bukarewicz)
1131 D-Bus 1.9.2 (2014-11-10)
1134 The “structurally unsound flapjack” release.
1138 • Increase dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536
1139 so that CVE-2014-3636 part A cannot exhaust the system bus'
1140 file descriptors, completing the incomplete fix in 1.8.8.
1141 (CVE-2014-7824, fd.o #85105; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
1145 • D-Bus Specification version 0.25
1146 · new value 'const' for EmitsChangedSignal annotation
1147 (fd.o #72958, Lennart Poettering)
1148 · new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag, for PolicyKit and similar
1149 (fd.o #83449; Lennart Poettering, Simon McVittie)
1150 · annotate table of types with reserved/basic/container, and for
1151 basic types, fixed/string-like
1152 · clarify arbitrary limits by quoting them in mebibytes
1154 • New API: add accessors for the ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag
1155 (fd.o #83449, Simon McVittie)
1157 • Add dbus-test-tool, a D-Bus swiss army knife with multiple subcommands,
1158 useful for debugging and performance testing:
1159 · dbus-test-tool spam: send repeated messages
1160 · dbus-test-tool echo: send an empty reply for all method calls
1161 · dbus-test-tool black-hole: do not reply to method calls
1162 (fd.o #34140; Alban Crequy, Simon McVittie, Will Thompson)
1164 • Add support for process ID in credentials-passing on NetBSD
1165 (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche)
1167 • Add an example script to find potentially undesired match rules
1168 (fd.o #84598, Alban Crequy)
1170 • Document the central assumption that makes our use of credentials-passing
1171 secure (fd.o #83499, Simon McVittie)
1173 • Replace the dbus-glib section of the tutorial with a GDBus recommendation,
1174 and add some links to GDBus and QtDBus documentation (fd.o #25140,
1179 • Use a less confusing NoReply message when disconnected with a reply pending
1180 (fd.o #76112, Simon McVittie)
1182 • Make the .pc file relocatable by letting pkg-config do all variable
1183 expansion itself (fd.o #75858, Руслан Ижбулатов)
1185 • Fix a build failure on platforms with kqueue, which regressed in 1.9.0
1186 (fd.o #85563, Patrick Welche)
1188 • Consistently save errno after socket calls (fd.o #83625, Simon McVittie)
1190 • In dbus-spawn, when the grandchild process exits due to a failed exec(),
1191 do not lose the exec() errno (fd.o #24821, Simon McVittie)
1193 • Do not fail the tests if a parent process has leaked non-close-on-exec
1194 file descriptors to us (fd.o #73689, fd.o #83899; Simon McVittie)
1196 • Do not fail the tests on Unix platforms with incomplete
1197 credentials-passing support, but do fail if we can't pass credentials
1198 on a platform where it is known to work: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
1199 (fd.o #69702, Simon McVittie)
1201 • Detect accept4, dirfd, inotify_init1, pipe2, and Unix fd passing
1202 when building with cmake, and expand test coverage there
1203 (fd.o #73689; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
1205 D-Bus 1.9.0 (2014-10-01)
1208 The “tiered cheeses” release.
1212 • Support for the systemd: (LISTEN_FDS) pseudo-transport on Linux now
1213 requires either the libsystemd or libsd-daemon shared library, dropping the
1214 embedded convenience copy of sd-daemon (fd.o #71818, Simon)
1216 Build-time configuration changes:
1218 • The Stats interface is now enabled by default, and locked-down to
1219 root-only on the system bus. Configure with --disable-stats
1220 to disable it altogether on memory- or disk-constrained systems,
1221 or see ${docdir}/examples/ to open it up to non-root users on the
1222 system bus or restrict access on the session bus.
1223 (fd.o #80759; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
1225 • The CMake build system now builds the same shared library name as Autotools
1226 on at least Linux and Windows:
1227 - on Linux (and perhaps other Unix platforms), it previously built
1228 libdbus-1.so, but now builds libdbus-1.so.3.* with development
1229 symlink libdbus-1.so and SONAME/symlink libdbus-1.so.3
1230 - on Windows, it previously built either libdbus-1.dll (release) or
1231 libdbus-1d.dll (debug), but now builds libdbus-1-3.dll, copied to
1232 libdbus-1.dll for compatibility with older applications.
1233 (fd.o #74117, Ralf Habacker)
1237 • D-Bus Specification version 0.24
1238 · document how to quote match rules (fd.o #24307, Simon McVittie)
1239 · explicitly say that most message types never expect a reply
1240 regardles of whether they have NO_REPLY_EXPECTED
1241 (fd.o #75749, Simon McVittie)
1243 • on Unix platforms, disable Nagle's algorithm on TCP connections to improve
1244 initial latency (fd.o #75544, Matt Hoosier)
1246 • use backtrace() if it is in -lexecinfo instead of libc, as on NetBSD
1247 (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche)
1249 • in dbus-monitor, print more information about file descriptors
1250 (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy)
1252 • do not install system bus configuration if built for Windows
1253 (fd.o #83583; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
1255 • Add GetAllMatchRules to the Stats interface (fd.o #24307, Alban Crequy)
1257 • Add a regression test for file descriptor passing (fd.o #83622,
1262 • fix an incorrect error message if a Unix socket path is too long
1263 (fd.o #73887, Antoine Jacoutot)
1265 • in an MSYS/Cygwin environment, pass Unix-style filenames to xmlto,
1266 fixing documentation generation (fd.o #75860, Руслан Ижбулатов)
1268 • in Unix with X11, avoid giving dbus-launch a misleading argv[0]
1269 in ps(1) (fd.o #69716, Chengwei Yang)
1271 • avoid calling poll() with timeout < -1, which is considered invalid
1272 on FreeBSD and NetBSD (fd.o #78480, Jaap Boender)
1274 • be portable to BSD-derived platforms where O_CLOEXEC is unavailable in libc
1275 (like Mac OS X 10.6), or available in libc but unsupported by the kernel
1276 (fd.o #77032; rmvsxop, OBATA Akio, Patrick Welche)
1278 • Fix include path for test/internal/*.c with cmake (Ralf Habacker)
1280 • Documentation improvements
1281 (fd.o #80795, #84313; Thomas Haller, Sebastian Rasmussen)
1283 • in dbus-monitor, do not leak file descriptors that we have monitored
1284 (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy)
1286 • Set the close-on-exec flag for the inotify file descriptor, even
1287 if built with CMake or older libc (fd.o #73689, Simon McVittie)
1289 • Remove some LGPL code from the Windows dbus-daemon
1290 (fd.o #57272, Ralf Habacker)
1292 D-Bus 1.8.8 (2014-09-16)
1295 The "smashy smashy egg man" release.
1299 • Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which
1300 could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun.
1301 (CVE-2014-3635, fd.o #83622; Simon McVittie)
1303 • Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message
1304 from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of
1305 connections from exhausting the system bus' file descriptors under
1306 Linux's default rlimit. Distributors or system administrators with a
1307 more restrictive fd limit may wish to reduce these limits further.
1309 Additionally, on Linux this prevents a second denial of service
1310 in which the dbus-daemon can be made to exceed the maximum number
1311 of fds per sendmsg() and disconnect the process that would have
1313 (CVE-2014-3636, fd.o #82820; Alban Crequy)
1315 • Disconnect connections that still have a fd pending unmarshalling after
1316 a new configurable limit, pending_fd_timeout (defaulting to 150 seconds),
1317 removing the possibility of creating an abusive connection that cannot be
1318 disconnected by setting up a circular reference to a connection's
1320 (CVE-2014-3637, fd.o #80559; Alban Crequy)
1322 • Reduce default for maximum pending replies per connection from 8192 to 128,
1323 mitigating an algorithmic complexity denial-of-service attack
1324 (CVE-2014-3638, fd.o #81053; Alban Crequy)
1326 • Reduce default for authentication timeout on the system bus from
1327 30 seconds to 5 seconds, avoiding denial of service by using up
1328 all unauthenticated connection slots; and when all unauthenticated
1329 connection slots are used up, make new connection attempts block
1330 instead of disconnecting them.
1331 (CVE-2014-3639, fd.o #80919; Alban Crequy)
1335 • Check for libsystemd from systemd >= 209, falling back to
1336 the older separate libraries if not found (Umut Tezduyar Lindskog,
1339 • On Linux, use prctl() to disable core dumps from a test executable
1340 that deliberately raises SIGSEGV to test dbus-daemon's handling
1341 of that condition (fd.o #83772, Simon McVittie)
1343 • Fix compilation with --enable-stats (fd.o #81043, Gentoo #507232;
1346 • Improve documentation for running tests on Windows (fd.o #41252,
1349 D-Bus 1.8.6 (2014-06-02)
1354 • On Linux ≥ 2.6.37-rc4, if sendmsg() fails with ETOOMANYREFS, silently drop
1355 the message. This prevents an attack in which a malicious client can
1356 make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service, which is a local
1358 (fd.o #80163, CVE-2014-3532; Alban Crequy)
1360 • Track remaining Unix file descriptors correctly when more than one
1361 message in quick succession contains fds. This prevents another attack
1362 in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system
1364 (fd.o #79694, fd.o #80469, CVE-2014-3533; Alejandro Martínez Suárez,
1365 Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
1369 • When dbus-launch --exit-with-session starts a dbus-daemon but then cannot
1370 attach to a session, kill the dbus-daemon as intended
1371 (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
1373 D-Bus 1.8.4 (2014-06-10)
1378 • Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered and fixed a denial-of-service
1379 flaw in dbus-daemon, part of the reference implementation of D-Bus.
1380 Additionally, in highly unusual environments the same flaw could lead to
1381 a side channel between processes that should not be able to communicate.
1382 (CVE-2014-3477, fd.o #78979)
1384 D-Bus 1.8.2 (2014-04-30)
1387 The “nobody wants red” release.
1391 • in the CMake build system, add some hints for Linux users cross-compiling
1392 Windows D-Bus binaries to be able to run tests under Wine
1393 (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker)
1395 • add Documentation key to dbus.service (fd.o #77447, Cameron Norman)
1399 • in "dbus-uuidgen --ensure", try to copy systemd's /etc/machine-id
1400 to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id instead of generating an entirely new ID
1401 (fd.o #77941, Simon McVittie)
1403 • if dbus-launch receives an X error very quickly, do not kill
1404 unrelated processes (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
1406 • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon, instead of the
1407 previous 64 (fd.o #71297; Cristian Onet, Ralf Habacker)
1409 • cope with \r\n newlines in regression tests, since on Windows,
1410 dbus-daemon.exe uses text mode (fd.o #75863, Руслан Ижбулатов)
1412 D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20)
1415 The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release.
1417 This starts a new stable branch. The 1.6.x branch is now considered to be
1418 outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as security
1419 flaws. The 1.4.x and 1.2.x branches no longer have upstream support and
1420 are unlikely to get any more releases, but if distributors still need to
1421 support them, please share security patches via upstream.
1423 Summary of changes since 1.6.x:
1425 • libdbus always behaves as if dbus_threads_init_default() had been called
1426 (thread-safety by default)
1427 • new dbus-run-session tool, replacing certain misuses of dbus-launch
1428 • dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again
1429 • new org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials method
1430 • GetConnectionUnixProcessID also works correctly on Windows, returning
1431 the Windows process ID
1432 • GetConnectionWindowsSID returns the correct SID on Windows
1433 • expat is required, libxml2 can no longer be used as a substitute
1434 • the userDB cache is required, and cannot be disabled
1435 • a 64-bit integer type (either int, long, long long or _int64) is required
1436 • better systemd-journald integration on Linux
1437 • fixed long-standing fd and array leaks when failing to parse a message
1438 • fixed referenced-but-never-freed parent nodes (effectively memory leaks)
1439 when using certain object-path allocation patterns, notably in Avahi
1440 • better defaults for Windows support
1441 • better CMake support
1442 • better portability to mingw32, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX and Hurd
1443 • the source language for the man pages is now Docbook XML
1445 Enhancements since 1.7.10:
1447 • Enhance the CMake build system to check for GLib and compile/run
1448 a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, #73495; Ralf Habacker)
1452 • don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840,
1455 • fix compilation of systemd journal support on older systemd versions where
1456 sd-journal.h doesn't include syslog.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
1458 • fix compilation on older MSVC versions by including stdlib.h
1459 (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
1461 • Allow <allow_anonymous/> to appear in an included configuration file
1462 (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier)
1464 Test behaviour changes since 1.7.10:
1466 • If the tests crash with an assertion failure, they no longer default to
1467 blocking for a debugger to be attached. Set DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT in the
1468 environment if you want the old behaviour.
1470 • To improve debuggability, the dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-eavesdrop tests
1471 can be run with an external dbus-daemon by setting
1472 DBUS_TEST_DAEMON_ADDRESS in the environment. Test-cases that require
1473 an unusually-configured dbus-daemon are skipped.
1475 D-Bus 1.7.10 (2014-01-06)
1478 The “weighted companion cube” release.
1480 This is a release candidate for D-Bus 1.8.
1482 D-Bus Specification 0.23:
1484 • don't require messages with no INTERFACE to be dispatched
1485 (fd.o #68597, Simon McVittie)
1487 • document "tcp:bind=..." and "nonce-tcp:bind=..." (fd.o #72301,
1490 • define "listenable" and "connectable" addresses, and discuss
1491 the difference (fd.o #61303, Simon McVittie)
1495 • support printing Unix file descriptors in dbus-send, dbus-monitor
1496 (fd.o #70592, Robert Ancell)
1498 • don't install systemd units if --disable-systemd is given
1499 (fd.o #71818, Chengwei Yang)
1503 • don't leak memory on out-of-memory while listing activatable or
1504 active services (fd.o #71526, Radoslaw Pajak)
1506 • fix undefined behaviour in a regression test (fd.o #69924, DreamNik)
1508 • escape Unix socket addresses correctly (fd.o #46013, Chengwei Yang)
1510 • on SELinux systems, don't assume that SECCLASS_DBUS, DBUS__ACQUIRE_SVC
1511 and DBUS__SEND_MSG are numerically equal to their values in the
1512 reference policy (fd.o #88719, osmond sun)
1514 • define PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION if missing from MinGW < 4 headers
1515 (fd.o #71366, Matt Fischer)
1517 • define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid conflicts between winsock.h and
1518 winsock2.h (fd.o #71405, Matt Fischer)
1520 • do not return failure from _dbus_read_nonce() with no error set,
1521 preventing a potential crash (fd.o #72298, Chengwei Yang)
1523 • on BSD systems, avoid some O(1)-per-process memory and fd leaks in kqueue,
1524 preventing test failures (fd.o #69332, fd.o #72213; Chengwei Yang)
1526 • fix warning spam on Hurd by not trying to set SO_REUSEADDR on Unix sockets,
1527 which doesn't do anything anyway on at least Linux and FreeBSD
1528 (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
1530 • fix use of TCP sockets on FreeBSD and Hurd by tolerating EINVAL from
1531 sendmsg() with SCM_CREDS (retrying with plain send()), and looking
1532 for credentials more correctly (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
1534 • ensure that tests run with a temporary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to avoid
1535 getting mixed up in XDG/systemd "user sessions" (fd.o #61301,
1538 • refresh cached policy rules for existing connections when bus
1539 configuration changes (fd.o #39463, Chengwei Yang)
1541 D-Bus 1.7.8 (2013-11-01)
1544 The “extreme hills” release.
1548 • If systemd support is enabled, libsystemd-journal is now required.
1552 • When activating a non-systemd service under systemd, annotate its
1553 stdout/stderr with its bus name in the Journal. Known limitation:
1554 because the socket is opened before forking, the process will still be
1555 logged as if it had dbus-daemon's process ID and user ID.
1556 (fd.o #68559, Chengwei Yang)
1558 • Document more configuration elements in dbus-daemon(1)
1559 (fd.o #69125, Chengwei Yang)
1563 • Don't leak string arrays or fds if dbus_message_iter_get_args_valist()
1564 unpacks them and then encounters an error (fd.o #21259, Chengwei Yang)
1566 • If compiled with libaudit, retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE so we can write
1567 disallowed method calls to the audit log, fixing a regression in 1.7.6
1568 (fd.o #49062, Colin Walters)
1570 • path_namespace='/' in match rules incorrectly matched nothing; it
1571 now matches everything. (fd.o #70799, Simon McVittie)
1573 D-Bus 1.7.6 (2013-10-09)
1576 The “CSI Shrewsbury” release.
1578 Build-time configuration changes:
1580 • Directory change notification via dnotify on Linux is no longer
1581 supported; it hadn't compiled successfully since 2010 in any case.
1582 If you don't have inotify (Linux) or kqueue (*BSD), you will need
1583 to send SIGHUP to the dbus-daemon when its configuration changes.
1584 (fd.o #33001, Chengwei Yang)
1586 • Compiling with --disable-userdb-cache is no longer supported;
1587 it didn't work since at least 2008, and would lead to an extremely
1588 slow dbus-daemon even it worked. (fd.o #15589, #17133, #66947;
1591 • The DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS CMake option didn't actually disable most
1592 assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent
1593 with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
1595 • --with-valgrind=auto enables Valgrind instrumentation if and only if
1596 valgrind headers are available. The default is still --with-valgrind=no.
1597 (fd.o #56925, Simon McVittie)
1601 • Platforms with no 64-bit integer type are no longer supported.
1602 (fd.o #65429, Simon McVittie)
1604 • GNU make is now (documented to be) required. (fd.o #48277, Simon McVittie)
1606 • Full test coverage no longer requires dbus-glib, although the tests do not
1607 exercise the shared library (only a static copy) if dbus-glib is missing.
1608 (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
1612 • D-Bus Specification 0.22
1613 · Document GetAdtAuditSessionData() and
1614 GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext() (fd.o #54445, Simon)
1615 · Fix example .service file (fd.o #66481, Chengwei Yang)
1616 · Don't claim D-Bus is "low-latency" (lower than what?), just
1617 give factual statements about it supporting async use
1618 (fd.o #65141, Justin Lee)
1619 · Document the contents of .service files, and the fact that
1620 system services' filenames are constrained
1621 (fd.o #66608; Simon McVittie, Chengwei Yang)
1623 • Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if
1624 dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with
1625 older libdbus, library users should continue to call
1626 dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so.
1627 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
1629 • Add GetConnectionCredentials() method (fd.o #54445, Simon)
1631 • New API: dbus_setenv(), a simple wrapper around setenv().
1632 Note that this is not thread-safe. (fd.o #39196, Simon)
1634 • Add dbus-send --peer=ADDRESS (connect to a given peer-to-peer connection,
1635 like --address=ADDRESS in previous versions) and dbus-send --bus=ADDRESS
1636 (connect to a given bus, like dbus-monitor --address=ADDRESS).
1637 dbus-send --address still exists for backwards compatibility,
1638 but is no longer documented. (fd.o #48816, Andrey Mazo)
1641 · "dbus-daemon --nofork" is allowed on Windows again. (fd.o #68852,
1646 • Avoid an infinite busy-loop if a signal interrupts waitpid()
1647 (fd.o #68945, Simon McVittie)
1649 • Clean up memory for parent nodes when objects are unexported
1650 (fd.o #60176, Thomas Fitzsimmons)
1652 • Make dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages(x, FALSE) behave as
1653 documented. Previously, it assumed its second parameter was TRUE.
1654 (fd.o #69165, Chengwei Yang)
1656 • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly
1657 (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang)
1659 • Document <servicedir> search order correctly (fd.o #66994, Chengwei Yang)
1661 • Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4.
1662 (fd.o #65923, Chengwei Yang)
1664 • If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free
1665 an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang)
1667 • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list
1668 that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang)
1670 • fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang)
1672 • fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279,
1675 • Avoid calling function parameters "interface" since certain Windows headers
1676 have a namespace-polluting macro of that name (fd.o #66493, Ivan Romanov)
1678 • Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang)
1680 • Various thread-safety improvements to static variables (fd.o #68610,
1683 • Make "make -j check" work (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
1685 • Fix a NULL pointer dereference on an unlikely error path
1686 (fd.o #69327, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
1688 • Improve valgrind memory pool tracking (fd.o #69326,
1691 • Don't over-allocate memory in dbus-monitor (fd.o #69329,
1694 • dbus-monitor can monitor dbus-daemon < 1.5.6 again
1695 (fd.o #66107, Chengwei Yang)
1698 · If accept4() fails with EINVAL, as it can on older Linux kernels
1699 with newer glibc, try accept() instead of going into a busy-loop.
1700 (fd.o #69026, Chengwei Yang)
1701 · If socket() or socketpair() fails with EINVAL or EPROTOTYPE,
1702 for instance on Hurd or older Linux with a new glibc, try without
1703 SOCK_CLOEXEC. (fd.o #69073; Pino Toscano, Chengwei Yang)
1704 · Fix a file descriptor leak on an error code path.
1705 (fd.o #69182, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
1706 · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables
1707 (fd.o #39196, Simon)
1708 · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang)
1709 · Don't fail the autolaunch test if there is no DISPLAY (fd.o #40352, Simon)
1710 · Use dbus-launch from the builddir for testing, not the installed copy
1711 (fd.o #37849, Chengwei Yang)
1712 · Fix compilation if writev() is unavailable (fd.o #69409,
1714 · Remove broken support for LOCAL_CREDS credentials passing, and
1715 document where each credential-passing scheme is used (fd.o #60340,
1717 · Make autogen.sh work on *BSD by not assuming GNU coreutils functionality
1718 (fd.o #35881, #69787; Chengwei Yang)
1719 · dbus-monitor: be portable to NetBSD (fd.o #69842, Chengwei Yang)
1720 · dbus-launch: stop using non-portable asprintf (fd.o #37849, Simon)
1721 · Improve error reporting from the setuid activation helper (fd.o #66728,
1725 · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help'
1726 (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker)
1727 · Add support for looking up local TCPv4 clients' credentials on
1728 Windows XP via the undocumented AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack
1729 function (fd.o #66060, Ralf Habacker)
1730 · Fix insufficient dependency-tracking (fd.o #68505, Simon McVittie)
1731 · Don't include wspiapi.h, fixing a compiler warning (fd.o #68852,
1735 · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing
1736 conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
1737 · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters)
1738 · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker)
1739 · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations
1740 etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005, #66257, #69165, #69410, #70218;
1741 Chengwei Yang, Vasiliy Balyasnyy)
1743 D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13)
1746 The “but is your thread-safety thread-safe?” release.
1750 • CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial
1751 of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea.
1756 • The Windows version of libdbus now contains a C++ source file, used
1757 to provide global initialization when the library is loaded.
1758 gcc (mingw*) users should ensure that g++ is also installed.
1760 • The libxml2-based configuration reader (which hasn't worked for 2.5 years,
1761 and was never the recommended option) has been removed. Expat is now a
1766 • It should now be safe to call dbus_threads_init_default() from any thread,
1767 at any time. Authors of loadable modules and plugins that use libdbus
1768 should consider doing so during initialization.
1769 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
1771 • Improve dbus-send documentation and command-line parsing (fd.o #65424,
1775 · dbus-run-session: experimental new tool to start a temporary D-Bus
1776 session, e.g. for regression tests or a text console, replacing
1777 certain uses of dbus-launch which weren't really correct
1778 (fd.o #39196, Simon)
1782 • In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value
1783 (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang)
1786 · Fix a crash similar to CVE-2013-2168 the first time we try to use syslog
1787 on a platform not defining LOG_PERROR, such as Solaris or QNX.
1788 This regressed in 1.7.0. (Simon)
1789 · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before
1790 systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang)
1791 · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write()
1795 · Under cmake, install runtime libraries (DLLs) into bin/ instead of lib/
1796 so that Windows finds them (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
1798 D-Bus 1.7.2 (2013-04-25)
1801 The “only partially opaque” release.
1803 Configuration changes:
1805 • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the
1806 session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default
1807 limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are
1808 reduced further, to 128.
1812 • D-Bus Specification 0.21
1813 · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF,
1814 U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072,
1819 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
1820 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
1821 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
1823 • Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker,
1827 · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie)
1828 · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication
1829 (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen)
1830 · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket
1831 (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez)
1832 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
1833 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
1834 · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd
1835 (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt)
1836 · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for
1837 meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker)
1838 · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under
1839 QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer)
1842 · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials;
1843 pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security
1844 identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787,
1847 D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22)
1850 The "Disingenuous Assertions" release.
1852 This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6
1853 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions
1854 or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
1856 Build-time configuration changes:
1858 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
1859 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
1860 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
1861 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
1864 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer
1865 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
1866 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
1868 • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a
1869 cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at
1870 <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools
1871 as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set
1872 PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately.
1876 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
1877 • man2html is no longer used.
1881 • D-Bus Specification 0.20
1882 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
1883 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
1884 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
1885 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
1887 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
1888 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
1889 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
1893 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
1894 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
1896 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
1897 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
1899 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
1902 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
1904 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
1905 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
1907 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
1910 • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie)
1913 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
1914 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
1915 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
1917 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
1918 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer)
1921 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
1922 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
1923 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
1924 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
1925 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
1926 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
1928 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
1931 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
1934 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
1936 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
1937 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
1938 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
1939 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
1940 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
1943 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
1946 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
1948 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
1949 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
1950 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
1952 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
1953 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
1954 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
1956 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
1959 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
1960 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
1961 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
1963 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
1966 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
1967 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
1970 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
1971 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
1973 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
1976 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
1978 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
1979 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
1981 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
1982 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
1984 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
1985 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
1986 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
1987 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
1988 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
1990 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
1991 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
1994 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
1996 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
1999 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
2001 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
2002 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
2004 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
2007 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
2008 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
2010 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
2012 • New dbus-daemon features
2013 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
2014 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
2015 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
2016 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
2017 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
2018 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
2021 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
2022 · dbus_type_is_valid()
2023 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
2026 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
2027 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
2028 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
2029 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
2031 • Other major implementation changes
2032 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
2033 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
2034 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
2035 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
2037 • Developer features
2038 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
2039 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
2040 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
2041 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
2043 Changes since 1.5.12:
2045 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
2046 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
2048 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
2049 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
2051 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
2052 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
2053 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
2055 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
2058 The “Big Book of Science” release.
2060 • Add public API to validate various string types:
2061 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
2062 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
2063 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
2065 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
2066 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
2068 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
2069 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
2071 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
2072 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
2075 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
2076 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
2077 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
2078 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
2080 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
2083 The "fire in Delerium" release.
2085 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
2086 and SUSv2) is now required.
2088 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
2089 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
2090 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
2091 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
2092 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
2093 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
2095 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
2097 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
2098 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
2099 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
2101 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
2104 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
2105 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
2106 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
2107 · only create batch files on Windows
2108 · fix option and cache syntax
2109 · add help-options target
2110 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
2111 own version (fd.o #41033)
2113 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
2114 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
2116 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
2118 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
2119 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
2121 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
2122 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
2124 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
2125 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
2126 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
2128 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
2129 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
2130 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
2131 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
2134 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
2135 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
2136 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
2138 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
2140 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
2142 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
2143 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
2144 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
2147 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
2151 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
2152 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
2153 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
2154 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
2155 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
2156 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
2157 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
2158 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
2159 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
2160 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
2161 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
2162 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
2163 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
2164 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
2165 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
2166 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
2169 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
2170 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
2171 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
2174 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
2177 The "cross-metering" release.
2179 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
2180 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
2182 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
2183 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
2185 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
2186 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
2187 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
2188 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
2190 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
2191 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
2193 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
2195 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
2197 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
2200 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
2202 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
2203 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
2205 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
2206 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
2209 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
2210 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
2211 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
2212 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
2213 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
2215 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
2216 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
2217 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
2218 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
2219 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
2220 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
2221 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
2222 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
2225 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
2226 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
2227 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
2228 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
2230 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
2233 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
2235 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
2236 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
2238 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
2239 changes to work as intended):
2241 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
2242 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
2243 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
2244 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
2245 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
2249 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
2250 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
2251 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
2252 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
2253 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
2254 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
2256 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
2257 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
2258 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
2260 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
2261 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
2262 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
2264 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
2267 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
2268 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
2270 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
2271 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
2273 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
2274 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
2275 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
2278 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
2280 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
2281 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
2283 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
2284 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
2286 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
2287 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
2288 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
2290 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
2292 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
2293 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
2294 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
2295 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
2298 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
2299 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
2300 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
2301 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
2302 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
2304 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
2305 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
2306 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
2308 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
2311 Security (local denial of service):
2313 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
2314 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
2315 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
2316 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
2320 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
2321 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
2322 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
2324 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
2325 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
2326 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
2327 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
2331 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
2332 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
2334 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
2335 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
2336 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
2337 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
2338 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
2340 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
2341 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
2343 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
2344 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
2346 • Windows-specific changes:
2347 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
2349 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
2352 The "Boar Hunter" release.
2354 Notes for distributors:
2356 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
2357 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
2358 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
2360 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
2362 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
2366 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
2367 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
2368 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
2369 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
2370 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
2371 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
2372 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
2373 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
2374 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
2375 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
2376 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
2377 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
2378 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
2379 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
2380 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
2381 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
2383 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
2385 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
2386 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
2387 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
2388 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
2389 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
2390 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
2391 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
2392 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
2393 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
2394 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
2395 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
2398 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
2400 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
2403 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
2404 flying shark" release.
2406 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
2407 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
2408 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
2409 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
2410 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
2411 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
2413 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
2415 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
2416 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
2417 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
2418 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
2419 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
2420 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
2422 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
2425 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
2427 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
2428 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
2429 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
2431 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
2432 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
2433 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
2434 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
2435 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
2436 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
2437 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
2438 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
2439 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
2440 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
2441 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
2442 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
2443 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
2444 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
2445 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
2447 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
2449 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
2450 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
2452 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
2455 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
2457 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
2458 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
2460 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
2463 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
2464 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
2465 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
2466 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
2467 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
2468 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
2469 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
2470 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
2471 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
2472 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
2473 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
2474 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
2475 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
2476 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
2477 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
2478 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
2479 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
2480 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
2481 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
2483 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
2485 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
2486 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
2487 • Fix syslog string processing
2489 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
2490 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
2492 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
2494 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
2496 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
2498 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
2501 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
2502 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
2503 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
2504 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
2506 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
2507 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
2508 • Various bug fixes.
2510 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
2514 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
2516 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
2517 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
2518 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
2520 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
2522 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
2523 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
2524 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
2525 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
2526 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
2527 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
2528 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon