1 D-Bus 1.7.0 (UNRELEASED)
4 Build-time configuration changes:
6 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
7 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
8 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
9 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
12 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS cmake variable is no longer
13 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
14 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
18 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
19 • man2html is no longer used.
23 • D-Bus Specification 0.21
24 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
25 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
26 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
27 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
29 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
30 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
31 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
35 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
36 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
38 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
39 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
41 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
44 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
46 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
47 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
49 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
53 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
54 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
55 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
57 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
58 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, Matt Fischer)
61 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
62 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
63 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
64 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
65 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
66 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
68 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
71 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
74 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
76 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
77 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
78 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
79 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
80 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
83 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
86 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
88 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
89 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
90 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
92 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
93 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
94 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
96 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
99 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
100 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
101 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
103 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
106 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
107 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
110 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
111 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
113 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
116 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
118 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
119 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
121 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
122 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
124 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
125 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
126 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
127 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
128 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
130 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
131 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
134 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
136 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
139 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
141 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
142 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
144 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
147 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
148 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
150 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
152 • New dbus-daemon features
153 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
154 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
155 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
156 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
157 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
158 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
161 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
162 · dbus_type_is_valid()
163 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
166 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
167 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
168 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
169 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
171 • Other major implementation changes
172 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
173 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
174 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
175 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
178 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
179 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
180 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
181 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
183 Changes since 1.5.12:
185 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
186 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
188 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
189 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
191 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
192 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
193 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
195 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
198 The “Big Book of Science” release.
200 • Add public API to validate various string types:
201 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
202 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
203 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
205 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
206 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
208 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
209 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
211 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
212 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
215 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
216 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
217 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
218 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
220 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
223 The "fire in Delerium" release.
225 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
226 and SUSv2) is now required.
228 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
229 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
230 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
231 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
232 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
233 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
235 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
237 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
238 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
239 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
241 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
244 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
245 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
246 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
247 · only create batch files on Windows
248 · fix option and cache syntax
249 · add help-options target
250 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
251 own version (fd.o #41033)
253 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
254 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
256 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
258 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
259 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
261 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
262 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
264 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
265 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
266 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
268 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
269 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
270 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
271 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
274 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
275 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
276 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
278 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
280 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
282 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
283 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
284 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
287 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
291 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
292 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
293 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
294 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
295 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
296 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
297 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
298 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
299 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
300 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
301 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
302 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
303 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
304 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
305 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
306 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
309 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
310 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
311 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
314 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
317 The "cross-metering" release.
319 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
320 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
322 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
323 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
325 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
326 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
327 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
328 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
330 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
331 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
333 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
335 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
337 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
340 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
342 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
343 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
345 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
346 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
349 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
350 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
351 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
352 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
353 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
355 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
356 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
357 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
358 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
359 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
360 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
361 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
362 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
365 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
366 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
367 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
368 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
370 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
373 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
375 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
376 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
378 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
379 changes to work as intended):
381 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
382 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
383 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
384 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
385 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
389 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
390 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
391 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
392 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
393 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
394 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
396 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
397 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
398 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
400 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
401 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
402 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
404 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
407 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
408 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
410 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
411 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
413 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
414 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
415 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
418 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
420 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
421 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
423 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
424 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
426 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
427 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
428 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
430 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
432 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
433 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
434 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
435 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
438 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
439 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
440 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
441 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
442 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
444 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
445 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
446 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
448 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
451 Security (local denial of service):
453 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
454 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
455 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
456 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
460 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
461 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
462 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
464 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
465 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
466 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
467 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
471 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
472 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
474 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
475 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
476 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
477 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
478 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
480 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
481 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
483 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
484 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
486 • Windows-specific changes:
487 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
489 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
492 The "Boar Hunter" release.
494 Notes for distributors:
496 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
497 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
498 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
500 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
502 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
506 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
507 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
508 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
509 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
510 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
511 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
512 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
513 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
514 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
515 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
516 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
517 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
518 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
519 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
520 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
521 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
523 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
525 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
526 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
527 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
528 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
529 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
530 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
531 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
532 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
533 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
534 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
535 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
538 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
540 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
543 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
544 flying shark" release.
546 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
547 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
548 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
549 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
550 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
551 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
553 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
555 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
556 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
557 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
558 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
559 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
560 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
562 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
565 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
567 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
568 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
569 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
571 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
572 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
573 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
574 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
575 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
576 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
577 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
578 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
579 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
580 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
581 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
582 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
583 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
584 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
585 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
587 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
589 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
590 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
592 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
595 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
597 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
598 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
600 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
603 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
604 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
605 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
606 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
607 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
608 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
609 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
610 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
611 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
612 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
613 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
614 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
615 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
616 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
617 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
618 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
619 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
620 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
621 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
623 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
625 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
626 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
627 • Fix syslog string processing
629 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
630 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
632 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
634 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
636 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
638 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
641 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
642 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
643 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
644 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
646 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
647 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
650 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
654 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
656 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
657 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
658 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
660 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
662 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
663 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
664 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
665 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
666 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
667 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
668 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon