1 D-Bus 1.4.18 (UNRELEASED)
4 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
7 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
8 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
9 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
10 · only create batch files on Windows
11 · fix option and cache syntax
12 · add help-options target
13 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
14 own version (fd.o #41033)
16 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
17 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
20 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
21 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
22 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
23 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
26 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
27 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
29 D-Bus 1.4.16 (2011-09-21)
32 The "this answerphone fails to answer the phone" release.
34 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
35 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
36 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
37 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
39 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
40 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
42 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
44 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
46 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
49 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
51 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
52 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
54 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
55 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
58 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
59 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
60 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
61 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
62 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
64 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
65 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
66 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
67 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
68 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
69 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
70 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
71 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
74 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
75 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
76 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
78 D-Bus 1.4.14 (2011-07-29)
81 The "Puny receptacle!" release.
85 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
86 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE
87 (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
89 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
90 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
91 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
93 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
96 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
97 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
99 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
101 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
102 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
103 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
104 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
107 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
108 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
109 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
110 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
111 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
113 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
114 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
115 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
117 D-Bus 1.4.12 (2011-06-10)
120 Security (local denial of service):
122 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
123 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
124 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
125 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
129 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
130 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
131 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
133 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
134 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
135 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
136 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
140 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
141 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
143 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
144 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
145 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
146 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
147 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
149 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
150 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
152 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
153 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
155 • Windows-specific changes:
156 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
158 D-Bus 1.4.10 (2011-06-01)
161 The "Ape Ale" release.
163 Notes for distributors:
165 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
166 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
167 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
169 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
171 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
175 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
176 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
177 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
178 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
179 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
180 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
181 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
182 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
183 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
184 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
186 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
188 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
189 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
190 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
191 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
192 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
193 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
194 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
195 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
196 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
197 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
198 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
201 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
203 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
206 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
208 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
209 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
210 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
212 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
213 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
214 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
215 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
216 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
217 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
218 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
219 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
220 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
221 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
222 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
223 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
224 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
225 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
226 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
228 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
230 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
231 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
233 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
236 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
238 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
239 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
241 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
244 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
245 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
246 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
247 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
248 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
249 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
250 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
251 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
252 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
253 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
254 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
255 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
256 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
257 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
258 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
259 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
260 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
261 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
262 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
264 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
266 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
267 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
268 • Fix syslog string processing
270 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
271 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
273 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
275 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
277 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
279 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
282 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
283 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
284 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
285 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
287 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
288 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
291 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
295 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
297 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
298 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
299 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
301 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
303 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
304 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
305 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
306 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
307 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
308 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
309 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon