1 D-Bus 1.8.18 (2015-05-14)
4 The “unicorn rifts” release.
8 • On Unix platforms, change the default configuration for the session bus
9 to only allow EXTERNAL authentication (secure kernel-mediated
10 credentials-passing), as was already done for the system bus.
12 This avoids falling back to DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, which relies on strongly
13 unpredictable pseudo-random numbers; under certain circumstances
14 (/dev/urandom unreadable or malloc() returns NULL), dbus could
15 fall back to using rand(), which does not have the desired unpredictability.
16 The fallback to rand() has not been changed in this stable-branch since
17 the necessary code changes for correct error-handling are rather intrusive.
19 If you are using D-Bus over the (unencrypted!) tcp: or nonce-tcp: transport,
20 in conjunction with DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 and a shared home directory using
21 NFS or similar, you will need to reconfigure the session bus to accept
22 DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 by commenting out the <auth> element. This configuration
25 (fd.o #90414, Simon McVittie)
29 • Add locking to DBusCounter's reference count and notify function
30 (fd.o #89297, Adrian Szyndela)
32 • Ensure that DBusTransport's reference count is protected by the
33 corresponding DBusConnection's lock (fd.o #90312, Adrian Szyndela)
35 • On Windows, listen on the same port for IPv4 and IPv6 (previously
36 broken by an endianness mistake), and fix a failure to bind TCP
37 sockets on approximately 1 attempt in 256 (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker)
39 • Correctly release DBusServer mutex before early-return if we run out
40 of memory while copying authentication mechanisms (fd.o #90004,
43 • Fix some missing \n in verbose (debug log) messages (fd.o #90004,
46 • Clean up some memory leaks in test code (fd.o #90004, Ralf Habacker)
48 D-Bus 1.8.16 (2015-02-09)
51 The “poorly concealed wrestlers” release.
55 • Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure
56 messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would
57 allow a local denial of service: unprivileged processes could
58 flood the bus with these forged messages, winning the race with
59 the actual service activation and causing an error reply
60 to be sent back when service auto-activation was requested.
61 This does not prevent the real service from being started,
62 so it only works while the real service is not running.
63 (CVE-2015-0245, fd.o #88811; Simon McVittie)
67 • fix a Windows build failure (fd.o #88009, Ralf Habacker)
69 • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of the
70 previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under
71 Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker)
73 D-Bus 1.8.14 (2015-01-05)
76 The “40lb of roofing nails” release.
80 • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment from uids other than
81 the uid of the dbus-daemon. If a system service installs unsafe
82 security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
83 (such as CVE-2014-8148) then this prevents memory consumption and
84 possible privilege escalation via UpdateActivationEnvironment.
86 We believe that in practice, privilege escalation here is avoided
87 by dbus-daemon-launch-helper sanitizing its environment; but
88 it seems better to be safe.
90 • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats interface
91 on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus. Some system services
92 install unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
93 to any destination, method and interface with a specified object path;
94 while less bad than allowing arbitrary method calls, these security
95 policies are still harmful, since dbus-daemon normally offers the
96 same API on all object paths and other system services might behave
101 • Add missing initialization so GetExtendedTcpTable doesn't crash on
102 Windows Vista SP0 (fd.o #77008, Илья А. Ткаченко)
104 D-Bus 1.8.12 (2014-11-24)
107 The “days of fuchsia passed” release.
111 • Partially revert the CVE-2014-3639 patch by increasing the default
112 authentication timeout on the system bus from 5 seconds back to 30
113 seconds, since this has been reported to cause boot regressions for
114 some users, mostly with parallel boot (systemd) on slower hardware.
116 On fast systems where local users are considered particularly hostile,
117 administrators can return to the 5 second timeout (or any other value
118 in milliseconds) by saving this as /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf:
121 <limit name="auth_timeout">5000</limit>
124 (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie)
126 • Add a message in syslog/the Journal when the auth_timeout is exceeded
127 (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie)
129 • Send back an AccessDenied error if the addressed recipient is not allowed
130 to receive a message (and in builds with assertions enabled, don't
131 assert under the same conditions). (fd.o #86194, Jacek Bukarewicz)
133 D-Bus 1.8.10 (2014-11-10)
136 The “tenants with a leaking roof get priority” release.
140 • Increase dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536
141 so that CVE-2014-3636 part A cannot exhaust the system bus'
142 file descriptors, completing the incomplete fix in 1.8.8.
143 (CVE-2014-7824, fd.o #85105; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
145 D-Bus 1.8.8 (2014-09-16)
148 The "smashy smashy egg man" release.
152 • Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which
153 could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun.
154 (CVE-2014-3635, fd.o #83622; Simon McVittie)
156 • Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message
157 from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of
158 connections from exhausting the system bus' file descriptors under
159 Linux's default rlimit. Distributors or system administrators with a
160 more restrictive fd limit may wish to reduce these limits further.
162 Additionally, on Linux this prevents a second denial of service
163 in which the dbus-daemon can be made to exceed the maximum number
164 of fds per sendmsg() and disconnect the process that would have
166 (CVE-2014-3636, fd.o #82820; Alban Crequy)
168 • Disconnect connections that still have a fd pending unmarshalling after
169 a new configurable limit, pending_fd_timeout (defaulting to 150 seconds),
170 removing the possibility of creating an abusive connection that cannot be
171 disconnected by setting up a circular reference to a connection's
173 (CVE-2014-3637, fd.o #80559; Alban Crequy)
175 • Reduce default for maximum pending replies per connection from 8192 to 128,
176 mitigating an algorithmic complexity denial-of-service attack
177 (CVE-2014-3638, fd.o #81053; Alban Crequy)
179 • Reduce default for authentication timeout on the system bus from
180 30 seconds to 5 seconds, avoiding denial of service by using up
181 all unauthenticated connection slots; and when all unauthenticated
182 connection slots are used up, make new connection attempts block
183 instead of disconnecting them.
184 (CVE-2014-3639, fd.o #80919; Alban Crequy)
188 • Check for libsystemd from systemd >= 209, falling back to
189 the older separate libraries if not found (Umut Tezduyar Lindskog,
192 • On Linux, use prctl() to disable core dumps from a test executable
193 that deliberately raises SIGSEGV to test dbus-daemon's handling
194 of that condition (fd.o #83772, Simon McVittie)
196 • Fix compilation with --enable-stats (fd.o #81043, Gentoo #507232;
199 • Improve documentation for running tests on Windows (fd.o #41252,
202 D-Bus 1.8.6 (2014-06-02)
207 • On Linux ≥ 2.6.37-rc4, if sendmsg() fails with ETOOMANYREFS, silently drop
208 the message. This prevents an attack in which a malicious client can
209 make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service, which is a local
211 (fd.o #80163, CVE-2014-3532; Alban Crequy)
213 • Track remaining Unix file descriptors correctly when more than one
214 message in quick succession contains fds. This prevents another attack
215 in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system
217 (fd.o #79694, fd.o #80469, CVE-2014-3533; Alejandro Martínez Suárez,
218 Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
222 • When dbus-launch --exit-with-session starts a dbus-daemon but then cannot
223 attach to a session, kill the dbus-daemon as intended
224 (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
226 D-Bus 1.8.4 (2014-06-10)
231 • Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered and fixed a denial-of-service
232 flaw in dbus-daemon, part of the reference implementation of D-Bus.
233 Additionally, in highly unusual environments the same flaw could lead to
234 a side channel between processes that should not be able to communicate.
235 (CVE-2014-3477, fd.o #78979)
237 D-Bus 1.8.2 (2014-04-30)
240 The “nobody wants red” release.
244 • in the CMake build system, add some hints for Linux users cross-compiling
245 Windows D-Bus binaries to be able to run tests under Wine
246 (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker)
248 • add Documentation key to dbus.service (fd.o #77447, Cameron Norman)
252 • in "dbus-uuidgen --ensure", try to copy systemd's /etc/machine-id
253 to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id instead of generating an entirely new ID
254 (fd.o #77941, Simon McVittie)
256 • if dbus-launch receives an X error very quickly, do not kill
257 unrelated processes (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
259 • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon, instead of the
260 previous 64 (fd.o #71297; Cristian Onet, Ralf Habacker)
262 • cope with \r\n newlines in regression tests, since on Windows,
263 dbus-daemon.exe uses text mode (fd.o #75863, Руслан Ижбулатов)
265 D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20)
268 The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release.
270 This starts a new stable branch. The 1.6.x branch is now considered to be
271 outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as security
272 flaws. The 1.4.x and 1.2.x branches no longer have upstream support and
273 are unlikely to get any more releases, but if distributors still need to
274 support them, please share security patches via upstream.
276 Summary of changes since 1.6.x:
278 • libdbus always behaves as if dbus_threads_init_default() had been called
279 (thread-safety by default)
280 • new dbus-run-session tool, replacing certain misuses of dbus-launch
281 • dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again
282 • new org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials method
283 • GetConnectionUnixProcessID also works correctly on Windows, returning
284 the Windows process ID
285 • GetConnectionWindowsSID returns the correct SID on Windows
286 • expat is required, libxml2 can no longer be used as a substitute
287 • the userDB cache is required, and cannot be disabled
288 • a 64-bit integer type (either int, long, long long or _int64) is required
289 • better systemd-journald integration on Linux
290 • fixed long-standing fd and array leaks when failing to parse a message
291 • fixed referenced-but-never-freed parent nodes (effectively memory leaks)
292 when using certain object-path allocation patterns, notably in Avahi
293 • better defaults for Windows support
294 • better CMake support
295 • better portability to mingw32, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX and Hurd
296 • the source language for the man pages is now Docbook XML
298 Enhancements since 1.7.10:
300 • Enhance the CMake build system to check for GLib and compile/run
301 a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, #73495; Ralf Habacker)
305 • don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840,
308 • fix compilation of systemd journal support on older systemd versions where
309 sd-journal.h doesn't include syslog.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
311 • fix compilation on older MSVC versions by including stdlib.h
312 (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
314 • Allow <allow_anonymous/> to appear in an included configuration file
315 (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier)
317 Test behaviour changes since 1.7.10:
319 • If the tests crash with an assertion failure, they no longer default to
320 blocking for a debugger to be attached. Set DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT in the
321 environment if you want the old behaviour.
323 • To improve debuggability, the dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-eavesdrop tests
324 can be run with an external dbus-daemon by setting
325 DBUS_TEST_DAEMON_ADDRESS in the environment. Test-cases that require
326 an unusually-configured dbus-daemon are skipped.
328 D-Bus 1.7.10 (2014-01-06)
331 The “weighted companion cube” release.
333 This is a release candidate for D-Bus 1.8.
335 D-Bus Specification 0.23:
337 • don't require messages with no INTERFACE to be dispatched
338 (fd.o #68597, Simon McVittie)
340 • document "tcp:bind=..." and "nonce-tcp:bind=..." (fd.o #72301,
343 • define "listenable" and "connectable" addresses, and discuss
344 the difference (fd.o #61303, Simon McVittie)
348 • support printing Unix file descriptors in dbus-send, dbus-monitor
349 (fd.o #70592, Robert Ancell)
351 • don't install systemd units if --disable-systemd is given
352 (fd.o #71818, Chengwei Yang)
356 • don't leak memory on out-of-memory while listing activatable or
357 active services (fd.o #71526, Radoslaw Pajak)
359 • fix undefined behaviour in a regression test (fd.o #69924, DreamNik)
361 • escape Unix socket addresses correctly (fd.o #46013, Chengwei Yang)
363 • on SELinux systems, don't assume that SECCLASS_DBUS, DBUS__ACQUIRE_SVC
364 and DBUS__SEND_MSG are numerically equal to their values in the
365 reference policy (fd.o #88719, osmond sun)
367 • define PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION if missing from MinGW < 4 headers
368 (fd.o #71366, Matt Fischer)
370 • define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid conflicts between winsock.h and
371 winsock2.h (fd.o #71405, Matt Fischer)
373 • do not return failure from _dbus_read_nonce() with no error set,
374 preventing a potential crash (fd.o #72298, Chengwei Yang)
376 • on BSD systems, avoid some O(1)-per-process memory and fd leaks in kqueue,
377 preventing test failures (fd.o #69332, fd.o #72213; Chengwei Yang)
379 • fix warning spam on Hurd by not trying to set SO_REUSEADDR on Unix sockets,
380 which doesn't do anything anyway on at least Linux and FreeBSD
381 (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
383 • fix use of TCP sockets on FreeBSD and Hurd by tolerating EINVAL from
384 sendmsg() with SCM_CREDS (retrying with plain send()), and looking
385 for credentials more correctly (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
387 • ensure that tests run with a temporary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to avoid
388 getting mixed up in XDG/systemd "user sessions" (fd.o #61301,
391 • refresh cached policy rules for existing connections when bus
392 configuration changes (fd.o #39463, Chengwei Yang)
394 D-Bus 1.7.8 (2013-11-01)
397 The “extreme hills” release.
401 • If systemd support is enabled, libsystemd-journal is now required.
405 • When activating a non-systemd service under systemd, annotate its
406 stdout/stderr with its bus name in the Journal. Known limitation:
407 because the socket is opened before forking, the process will still be
408 logged as if it had dbus-daemon's process ID and user ID.
409 (fd.o #68559, Chengwei Yang)
411 • Document more configuration elements in dbus-daemon(1)
412 (fd.o #69125, Chengwei Yang)
416 • Don't leak string arrays or fds if dbus_message_iter_get_args_valist()
417 unpacks them and then encounters an error (fd.o #21259, Chengwei Yang)
419 • If compiled with libaudit, retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE so we can write
420 disallowed method calls to the audit log, fixing a regression in 1.7.6
421 (fd.o #49062, Colin Walters)
423 • path_namespace='/' in match rules incorrectly matched nothing; it
424 now matches everything. (fd.o #70799, Simon McVittie)
426 D-Bus 1.7.6 (2013-10-09)
429 The “CSI Shrewsbury” release.
431 Build-time configuration changes:
433 • Directory change notification via dnotify on Linux is no longer
434 supported; it hadn't compiled successfully since 2010 in any case.
435 If you don't have inotify (Linux) or kqueue (*BSD), you will need
436 to send SIGHUP to the dbus-daemon when its configuration changes.
437 (fd.o #33001, Chengwei Yang)
439 • Compiling with --disable-userdb-cache is no longer supported;
440 it didn't work since at least 2008, and would lead to an extremely
441 slow dbus-daemon even it worked. (fd.o #15589, #17133, #66947;
444 • The DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS CMake option didn't actually disable most
445 assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent
446 with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
448 • --with-valgrind=auto enables Valgrind instrumentation if and only if
449 valgrind headers are available. The default is still --with-valgrind=no.
450 (fd.o #56925, Simon McVittie)
454 • Platforms with no 64-bit integer type are no longer supported.
455 (fd.o #65429, Simon McVittie)
457 • GNU make is now (documented to be) required. (fd.o #48277, Simon McVittie)
459 • Full test coverage no longer requires dbus-glib, although the tests do not
460 exercise the shared library (only a static copy) if dbus-glib is missing.
461 (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
465 • D-Bus Specification 0.22
466 · Document GetAdtAuditSessionData() and
467 GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext() (fd.o #54445, Simon)
468 · Fix example .service file (fd.o #66481, Chengwei Yang)
469 · Don't claim D-Bus is "low-latency" (lower than what?), just
470 give factual statements about it supporting async use
471 (fd.o #65141, Justin Lee)
472 · Document the contents of .service files, and the fact that
473 system services' filenames are constrained
474 (fd.o #66608; Simon McVittie, Chengwei Yang)
476 • Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if
477 dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with
478 older libdbus, library users should continue to call
479 dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so.
480 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
482 • Add GetConnectionCredentials() method (fd.o #54445, Simon)
484 • New API: dbus_setenv(), a simple wrapper around setenv().
485 Note that this is not thread-safe. (fd.o #39196, Simon)
487 • Add dbus-send --peer=ADDRESS (connect to a given peer-to-peer connection,
488 like --address=ADDRESS in previous versions) and dbus-send --bus=ADDRESS
489 (connect to a given bus, like dbus-monitor --address=ADDRESS).
490 dbus-send --address still exists for backwards compatibility,
491 but is no longer documented. (fd.o #48816, Andrey Mazo)
494 · "dbus-daemon --nofork" is allowed on Windows again. (fd.o #68852,
499 • Avoid an infinite busy-loop if a signal interrupts waitpid()
500 (fd.o #68945, Simon McVittie)
502 • Clean up memory for parent nodes when objects are unexported
503 (fd.o #60176, Thomas Fitzsimmons)
505 • Make dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages(x, FALSE) behave as
506 documented. Previously, it assumed its second parameter was TRUE.
507 (fd.o #69165, Chengwei Yang)
509 • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly
510 (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang)
512 • Document <servicedir> search order correctly (fd.o #66994, Chengwei Yang)
514 • Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4.
515 (fd.o #65923, Chengwei Yang)
517 • If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free
518 an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang)
520 • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list
521 that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang)
523 • fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang)
525 • fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279,
528 • Avoid calling function parameters "interface" since certain Windows headers
529 have a namespace-polluting macro of that name (fd.o #66493, Ivan Romanov)
531 • Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang)
533 • Various thread-safety improvements to static variables (fd.o #68610,
536 • Make "make -j check" work (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
538 • Fix a NULL pointer dereference on an unlikely error path
539 (fd.o #69327, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
541 • Improve valgrind memory pool tracking (fd.o #69326,
544 • Don't over-allocate memory in dbus-monitor (fd.o #69329,
547 • dbus-monitor can monitor dbus-daemon < 1.5.6 again
548 (fd.o #66107, Chengwei Yang)
551 · If accept4() fails with EINVAL, as it can on older Linux kernels
552 with newer glibc, try accept() instead of going into a busy-loop.
553 (fd.o #69026, Chengwei Yang)
554 · If socket() or socketpair() fails with EINVAL or EPROTOTYPE,
555 for instance on Hurd or older Linux with a new glibc, try without
556 SOCK_CLOEXEC. (fd.o #69073; Pino Toscano, Chengwei Yang)
557 · Fix a file descriptor leak on an error code path.
558 (fd.o #69182, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
559 · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables
561 · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang)
562 · Don't fail the autolaunch test if there is no DISPLAY (fd.o #40352, Simon)
563 · Use dbus-launch from the builddir for testing, not the installed copy
564 (fd.o #37849, Chengwei Yang)
565 · Fix compilation if writev() is unavailable (fd.o #69409,
567 · Remove broken support for LOCAL_CREDS credentials passing, and
568 document where each credential-passing scheme is used (fd.o #60340,
570 · Make autogen.sh work on *BSD by not assuming GNU coreutils functionality
571 (fd.o #35881, #69787; Chengwei Yang)
572 · dbus-monitor: be portable to NetBSD (fd.o #69842, Chengwei Yang)
573 · dbus-launch: stop using non-portable asprintf (fd.o #37849, Simon)
574 · Improve error reporting from the setuid activation helper (fd.o #66728,
578 · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help'
579 (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker)
580 · Add support for looking up local TCPv4 clients' credentials on
581 Windows XP via the undocumented AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack
582 function (fd.o #66060, Ralf Habacker)
583 · Fix insufficient dependency-tracking (fd.o #68505, Simon McVittie)
584 · Don't include wspiapi.h, fixing a compiler warning (fd.o #68852,
588 · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing
589 conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
590 · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters)
591 · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker)
592 · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations
593 etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005, #66257, #69165, #69410, #70218;
594 Chengwei Yang, Vasiliy Balyasnyy)
596 D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13)
599 The “but is your thread-safety thread-safe?” release.
603 • CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial
604 of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea.
609 • The Windows version of libdbus now contains a C++ source file, used
610 to provide global initialization when the library is loaded.
611 gcc (mingw*) users should ensure that g++ is also installed.
613 • The libxml2-based configuration reader (which hasn't worked for 2.5 years,
614 and was never the recommended option) has been removed. Expat is now a
619 • It should now be safe to call dbus_threads_init_default() from any thread,
620 at any time. Authors of loadable modules and plugins that use libdbus
621 should consider doing so during initialization.
622 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
624 • Improve dbus-send documentation and command-line parsing (fd.o #65424,
628 · dbus-run-session: experimental new tool to start a temporary D-Bus
629 session, e.g. for regression tests or a text console, replacing
630 certain uses of dbus-launch which weren't really correct
635 • In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value
636 (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang)
639 · Fix a crash similar to CVE-2013-2168 the first time we try to use syslog
640 on a platform not defining LOG_PERROR, such as Solaris or QNX.
641 This regressed in 1.7.0. (Simon)
642 · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before
643 systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang)
644 · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write()
648 · Under cmake, install runtime libraries (DLLs) into bin/ instead of lib/
649 so that Windows finds them (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
651 D-Bus 1.7.2 (2013-04-25)
654 The “only partially opaque” release.
656 Configuration changes:
658 • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the
659 session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default
660 limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are
661 reduced further, to 128.
665 • D-Bus Specification 0.21
666 · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF,
667 U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072,
672 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
673 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
674 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
676 • Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker,
680 · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie)
681 · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication
682 (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen)
683 · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket
684 (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez)
685 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
686 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
687 · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd
688 (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt)
689 · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for
690 meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker)
691 · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under
692 QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer)
695 · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials;
696 pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security
697 identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787,
700 D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22)
703 The "Disingenuous Assertions" release.
705 This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6
706 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions
707 or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
709 Build-time configuration changes:
711 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
712 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
713 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
714 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
717 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer
718 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
719 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
721 • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a
722 cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at
723 <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools
724 as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set
725 PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately.
729 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
730 • man2html is no longer used.
734 • D-Bus Specification 0.20
735 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
736 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
737 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
738 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
740 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
741 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
742 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
746 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
747 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
749 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
750 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
752 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
755 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
757 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
758 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
760 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
763 • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie)
766 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
767 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
768 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
770 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
771 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer)
774 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
775 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
776 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
777 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
778 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
779 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
781 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
784 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
787 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
789 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
790 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
791 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
792 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
793 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
796 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
799 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
801 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
802 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
803 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
805 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
806 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
807 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
809 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
812 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
813 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
814 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
816 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
819 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
820 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
823 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
824 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
826 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
829 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
831 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
832 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
834 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
835 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
837 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
838 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
839 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
840 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
841 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
843 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
844 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
847 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
849 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
852 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
854 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
855 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
857 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
860 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
861 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
863 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
865 • New dbus-daemon features
866 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
867 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
868 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
869 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
870 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
871 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
874 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
875 · dbus_type_is_valid()
876 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
879 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
880 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
881 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
882 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
884 • Other major implementation changes
885 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
886 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
887 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
888 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
891 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
892 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
893 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
894 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
896 Changes since 1.5.12:
898 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
899 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
901 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
902 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
904 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
905 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
906 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
908 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
911 The “Big Book of Science” release.
913 • Add public API to validate various string types:
914 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
915 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
916 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
918 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
919 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
921 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
922 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
924 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
925 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
928 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
929 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
930 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
931 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
933 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
936 The "fire in Delerium" release.
938 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
939 and SUSv2) is now required.
941 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
942 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
943 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
944 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
945 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
946 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
948 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
950 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
951 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
952 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
954 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
957 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
958 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
959 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
960 · only create batch files on Windows
961 · fix option and cache syntax
962 · add help-options target
963 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
964 own version (fd.o #41033)
966 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
967 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
969 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
971 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
972 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
974 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
975 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
977 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
978 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
979 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
981 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
982 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
983 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
984 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
987 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
988 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
989 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
991 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
993 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
995 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
996 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
997 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
1000 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
1004 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
1005 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
1006 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
1007 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
1008 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
1009 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
1010 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
1011 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
1012 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
1013 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
1014 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
1015 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
1016 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
1017 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
1018 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
1019 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
1022 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
1023 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
1024 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
1027 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
1030 The "cross-metering" release.
1032 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
1033 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
1035 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
1036 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
1038 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
1039 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
1040 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
1041 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
1043 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
1044 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
1046 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
1048 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
1050 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
1053 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
1055 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
1056 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
1058 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
1059 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
1062 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
1063 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
1064 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
1065 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
1066 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
1068 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
1069 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
1070 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
1071 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
1072 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
1073 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
1074 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
1075 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
1078 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
1079 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
1080 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
1081 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
1083 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
1086 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
1088 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
1089 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
1091 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
1092 changes to work as intended):
1094 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
1095 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
1096 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
1097 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
1098 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
1102 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
1103 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
1104 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
1105 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
1106 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
1107 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
1109 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
1110 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
1111 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
1113 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
1114 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
1115 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
1117 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
1120 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
1121 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
1123 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
1124 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
1126 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
1127 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
1128 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
1131 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
1133 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
1134 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
1136 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
1137 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
1139 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
1140 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
1141 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
1143 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
1145 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
1146 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
1147 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
1148 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
1151 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
1152 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
1153 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
1154 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
1155 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
1157 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
1158 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
1159 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
1161 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
1164 Security (local denial of service):
1166 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
1167 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
1168 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
1169 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
1173 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
1174 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
1175 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
1177 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
1178 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
1179 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
1180 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
1184 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
1185 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
1187 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
1188 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
1189 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
1190 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
1191 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
1193 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
1194 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
1196 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
1197 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
1199 • Windows-specific changes:
1200 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
1202 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
1205 The "Boar Hunter" release.
1207 Notes for distributors:
1209 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
1210 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
1211 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
1213 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
1215 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
1219 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
1220 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
1221 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
1222 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
1223 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
1224 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
1225 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
1226 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
1227 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
1228 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
1229 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
1230 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
1231 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
1232 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
1233 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
1234 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
1236 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
1238 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
1239 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
1240 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
1241 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
1242 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
1243 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
1244 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
1245 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
1246 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
1247 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
1248 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
1251 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
1253 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
1256 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
1257 flying shark" release.
1259 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
1260 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
1261 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
1262 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
1263 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
1264 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
1266 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
1268 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
1269 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
1270 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
1271 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
1272 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
1273 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
1275 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
1278 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
1280 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
1281 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
1282 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
1284 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
1285 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
1286 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
1287 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
1288 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
1289 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
1290 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
1291 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
1292 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
1293 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
1294 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
1295 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
1296 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
1297 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
1298 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
1300 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
1302 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
1303 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
1305 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
1308 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
1310 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
1311 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
1313 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
1316 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
1317 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
1318 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
1319 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
1320 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
1321 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
1322 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
1323 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
1324 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
1325 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
1326 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
1327 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
1328 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
1329 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
1330 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
1331 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
1332 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
1333 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
1334 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
1336 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
1338 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
1339 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
1340 • Fix syslog string processing
1342 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
1343 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
1345 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
1347 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
1349 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
1351 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
1354 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
1355 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
1356 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
1357 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
1359 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
1360 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
1361 • Various bug fixes.
1363 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
1367 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
1369 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
1370 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
1371 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
1373 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
1375 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
1376 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
1377 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
1378 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
1379 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
1380 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
1381 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon