1 D-Bus 1.6.14 (UNRELEASED)
6 • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly
7 (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang)
9 • If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free
10 an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang)
12 • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list
13 that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang)
15 • Fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279,
18 D-Bus 1.6.12 (2013-06-13)
21 The “does this unit have a soul?” release.
25 • CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial
26 of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea.
29 • In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value
30 (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang)
33 · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before
34 systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang)
35 · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write()
38 D-Bus 1.6.10 (2013-04-24)
41 The “little-known facts about bananas” release.
43 • Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF,
44 U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again.
45 (fd.o #63072, Simon McVittie)
47 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
48 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
49 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
51 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
52 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
54 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
55 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
57 • Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927, Michel HERMIER)
59 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
63 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
64 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
66 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
69 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
71 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
72 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
73 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
74 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
75 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
78 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
81 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
83 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
84 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
85 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
87 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
88 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
89 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
91 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
94 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
95 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
96 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
98 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
101 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
102 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
105 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
106 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
108 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
111 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
113 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
114 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
116 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
117 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
119 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
120 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
121 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
122 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
123 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
125 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
126 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
129 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
131 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
134 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
136 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
137 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
139 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
142 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
143 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
145 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
147 • New dbus-daemon features
148 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
149 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
150 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
151 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
152 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
153 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
156 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
157 · dbus_type_is_valid()
158 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
161 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
162 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
163 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
164 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
166 • Other major implementation changes
167 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
168 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
169 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
170 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
173 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
174 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
175 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
176 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
178 Changes since 1.5.12:
180 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
181 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
183 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
184 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
186 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
187 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
188 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
190 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
193 The “Big Book of Science” release.
195 • Add public API to validate various string types:
196 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
197 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
198 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
200 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
201 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
203 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
204 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
206 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
207 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
210 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
211 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
212 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
213 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
215 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
218 The "fire in Delerium" release.
220 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
221 and SUSv2) is now required.
223 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
224 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
225 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
226 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
227 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
228 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
230 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
232 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
233 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
234 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
236 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
239 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
240 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
241 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
242 · only create batch files on Windows
243 · fix option and cache syntax
244 · add help-options target
245 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
246 own version (fd.o #41033)
248 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
249 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
251 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
253 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
254 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
256 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
257 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
259 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
260 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
261 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
263 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
264 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
265 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
266 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
269 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
270 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
271 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
273 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
275 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
277 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
278 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
279 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
282 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
286 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
287 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
288 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
289 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
290 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
291 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
292 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
293 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
294 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
295 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
296 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
297 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
298 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
299 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
300 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
301 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
304 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
305 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
306 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
309 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
312 The "cross-metering" release.
314 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
315 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
317 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
318 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
320 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
321 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
322 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
323 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
325 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
326 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
328 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
330 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
332 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
335 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
337 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
338 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
340 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
341 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
344 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
345 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
346 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
347 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
348 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
350 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
351 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
352 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
353 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
354 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
355 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
356 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
357 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
360 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
361 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
362 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
363 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
365 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
368 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
370 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
371 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
373 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
374 changes to work as intended):
376 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
377 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
378 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
379 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
380 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
384 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
385 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
386 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
387 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
388 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
389 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
391 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
392 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
393 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
395 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
396 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
397 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
399 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
402 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
403 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
405 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
406 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
408 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
409 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
410 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
413 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
415 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
416 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
418 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
419 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
421 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
422 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
423 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
425 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
427 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
428 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
429 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
430 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
433 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
434 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
435 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
436 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
437 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
439 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
440 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
441 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
443 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
446 Security (local denial of service):
448 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
449 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
450 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
451 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
455 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
456 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
457 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
459 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
460 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
461 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
462 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
466 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
467 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
469 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
470 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
471 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
472 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
473 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
475 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
476 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
478 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
479 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
481 • Windows-specific changes:
482 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
484 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
487 The "Boar Hunter" release.
489 Notes for distributors:
491 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
492 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
493 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
495 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
497 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
501 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
502 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
503 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
504 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
505 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
506 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
507 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
508 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
509 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
510 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
511 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
512 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
513 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
514 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
515 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
516 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
518 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
520 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
521 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
522 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
523 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
524 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
525 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
526 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
527 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
528 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
529 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
530 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
533 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
535 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
538 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
539 flying shark" release.
541 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
542 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
543 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
544 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
545 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
546 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
548 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
550 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
551 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
552 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
553 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
554 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
555 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
557 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
560 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
562 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
563 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
564 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
566 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
567 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
568 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
569 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
570 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
571 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
572 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
573 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
574 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
575 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
576 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
577 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
578 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
579 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
580 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
582 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
584 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
585 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
587 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
590 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
592 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
593 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
595 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
598 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
599 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
600 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
601 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
602 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
603 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
604 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
605 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
606 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
607 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
608 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
609 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
610 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
611 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
612 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
613 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
614 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
615 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
616 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
618 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
620 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
621 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
622 • Fix syslog string processing
624 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
625 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
627 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
629 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
631 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
633 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
636 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
637 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
638 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
639 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
641 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
642 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
645 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
649 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
651 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
652 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
653 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
655 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
657 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
658 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
659 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
660 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
661 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
662 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
663 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon