1 D-Bus 1.7.2 (UNRELEASED)
6 • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the
7 session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default
8 limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are
9 reduced further, to 128.
13 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
14 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
15 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
18 · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication
19 (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen)
20 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
21 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
22 · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd
23 (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt)
24 · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for
25 meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker)
26 · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under
27 QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer)
30 · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials;
31 pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security
32 identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787,
35 D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22)
38 The "Disingenuous Assertions" release.
40 This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6
41 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions
42 or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
44 Build-time configuration changes:
46 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
47 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
48 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
49 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
52 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer
53 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
54 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
56 • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a
57 cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at
58 <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools
59 as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set
60 PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately.
64 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
65 • man2html is no longer used.
69 • D-Bus Specification 0.20
70 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
71 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
72 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
73 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
75 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
76 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
77 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
81 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
82 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
84 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
85 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
87 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
90 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
92 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
93 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
95 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
98 • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie)
101 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
102 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
103 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
105 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
106 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer)
109 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
110 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
111 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
112 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
113 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
114 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
116 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
119 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
122 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
124 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
125 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
126 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
127 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
128 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
131 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
134 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
136 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
137 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
138 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
140 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
141 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
142 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
144 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
147 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
148 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
149 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
151 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
154 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
155 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
158 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
159 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
161 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
164 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
166 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
167 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
169 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
170 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
172 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
173 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
174 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
175 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
176 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
178 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
179 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
182 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
184 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
187 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
189 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
190 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
192 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
195 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
196 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
198 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
200 • New dbus-daemon features
201 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
202 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
203 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
204 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
205 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
206 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
209 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
210 · dbus_type_is_valid()
211 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
214 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
215 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
216 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
217 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
219 • Other major implementation changes
220 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
221 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
222 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
223 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
226 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
227 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
228 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
229 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
231 Changes since 1.5.12:
233 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
234 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
236 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
237 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
239 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
240 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
241 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
243 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
246 The “Big Book of Science” release.
248 • Add public API to validate various string types:
249 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
250 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
251 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
253 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
254 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
256 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
257 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
259 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
260 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
263 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
264 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
265 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
266 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
268 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
271 The "fire in Delerium" release.
273 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
274 and SUSv2) is now required.
276 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
277 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
278 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
279 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
280 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
281 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
283 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
285 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
286 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
287 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
289 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
292 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
293 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
294 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
295 · only create batch files on Windows
296 · fix option and cache syntax
297 · add help-options target
298 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
299 own version (fd.o #41033)
301 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
302 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
304 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
306 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
307 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
309 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
310 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
312 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
313 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
314 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
316 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
317 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
318 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
319 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
322 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
323 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
324 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
326 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
328 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
330 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
331 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
332 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
335 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
339 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
340 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
341 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
342 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
343 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
344 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
345 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
346 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
347 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
348 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
349 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
350 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
351 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
352 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
353 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
354 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
357 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
358 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
359 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
362 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
365 The "cross-metering" release.
367 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
368 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
370 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
371 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
373 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
374 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
375 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
376 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
378 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
379 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
381 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
383 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
385 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
388 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
390 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
391 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
393 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
394 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
397 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
398 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
399 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
400 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
401 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
403 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
404 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
405 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
406 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
407 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
408 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
409 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
410 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
413 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
414 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
415 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
416 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
418 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
421 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
423 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
424 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
426 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
427 changes to work as intended):
429 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
430 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
431 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
432 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
433 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
437 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
438 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
439 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
440 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
441 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
442 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
444 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
445 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
446 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
448 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
449 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
450 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
452 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
455 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
456 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
458 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
459 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
461 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
462 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
463 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
466 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
468 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
469 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
471 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
472 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
474 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
475 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
476 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
478 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
480 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
481 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
482 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
483 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
486 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
487 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
488 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
489 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
490 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
492 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
493 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
494 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
496 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
499 Security (local denial of service):
501 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
502 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
503 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
504 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
508 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
509 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
510 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
512 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
513 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
514 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
515 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
519 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
520 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
522 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
523 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
524 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
525 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
526 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
528 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
529 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
531 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
532 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
534 • Windows-specific changes:
535 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
537 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
540 The "Boar Hunter" release.
542 Notes for distributors:
544 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
545 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
546 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
548 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
550 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
554 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
555 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
556 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
557 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
558 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
559 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
560 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
561 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
562 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
563 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
564 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
565 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
566 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
567 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
568 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
569 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
571 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
573 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
574 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
575 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
576 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
577 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
578 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
579 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
580 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
581 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
582 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
583 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
586 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
588 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
591 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
592 flying shark" release.
594 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
595 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
596 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
597 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
598 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
599 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
601 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
603 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
604 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
605 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
606 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
607 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
608 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
610 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
613 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
615 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
616 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
617 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
619 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
620 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
621 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
622 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
623 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
624 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
625 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
626 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
627 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
628 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
629 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
630 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
631 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
632 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
633 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
635 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
637 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
638 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
640 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
643 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
645 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
646 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
648 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
651 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
652 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
653 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
654 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
655 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
656 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
657 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
658 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
659 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
660 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
661 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
662 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
663 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
664 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
665 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
666 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
667 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
668 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
669 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
671 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
673 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
674 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
675 • Fix syslog string processing
677 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
678 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
680 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
682 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
684 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
686 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
689 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
690 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
691 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
692 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
694 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
695 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
698 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
702 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
704 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
705 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
706 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
708 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
710 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
711 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
712 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
713 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
714 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
715 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
716 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon