1 D-Bus 1.5.2 (UNRELEASED)
4 Notes for distributors:
6 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
7 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
8 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
10 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
12 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
16 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
17 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
18 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
19 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
20 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
21 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
22 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
23 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
24 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
25 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
26 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
27 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
28 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
29 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
30 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
32 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
33 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
34 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
35 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
36 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
37 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
39 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
42 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
43 flying shark" release.
45 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
46 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
47 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
48 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
49 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
50 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
52 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
54 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
55 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
56 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
57 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
58 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
59 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
61 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
64 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
66 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
67 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
68 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
70 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
71 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
72 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
73 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
74 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
75 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
76 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
77 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
78 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
79 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
80 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
81 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
82 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
83 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
84 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
86 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
88 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
89 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
91 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
94 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
96 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
97 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
99 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
102 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
103 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
104 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
105 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
106 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
107 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
108 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
109 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
110 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
111 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
112 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
113 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
114 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
115 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
116 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
117 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
118 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
119 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
120 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
122 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
124 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
125 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
126 • Fix syslog string processing
128 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
129 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
131 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
133 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
135 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
137 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
140 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
141 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
142 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
143 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
145 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
146 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
149 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
153 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
155 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
156 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
157 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
159 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
161 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
162 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
163 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
164 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
165 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
166 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
167 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon