1 D-Bus 1.4.19 (UNRELEASED)
6 D-Bus 1.4.18 (2012-02-13)
9 The "snow in Brussels" release
11 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
14 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
15 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
16 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
17 · only create batch files on Windows
18 · fix option and cache syntax
19 · add help-options target
20 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
21 own version (fd.o #41033)
23 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
24 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
26 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
27 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
30 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
31 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
32 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
33 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
36 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
37 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
39 D-Bus 1.4.16 (2011-09-21)
42 The "this answerphone fails to answer the phone" release.
44 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
45 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
46 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
47 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
49 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
50 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
52 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
54 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
56 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
59 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
61 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
62 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
64 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
65 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
68 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
69 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
70 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
71 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
72 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
74 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
75 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
76 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
77 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
78 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
79 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
80 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
81 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
84 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
85 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
86 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
88 D-Bus 1.4.14 (2011-07-29)
91 The "Puny receptacle!" release.
95 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
96 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE
97 (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
99 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
100 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
101 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
103 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
106 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
107 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
109 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
111 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
112 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
113 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
114 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
117 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
118 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
119 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
120 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
121 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
123 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
124 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
125 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
127 D-Bus 1.4.12 (2011-06-10)
130 Security (local denial of service):
132 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
133 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
134 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
135 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
139 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
140 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
141 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
143 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
144 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
145 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
146 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
150 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
151 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
153 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
154 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
155 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
156 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
157 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
159 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
160 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
162 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
163 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
165 • Windows-specific changes:
166 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
168 D-Bus 1.4.10 (2011-06-01)
171 The "Ape Ale" release.
173 Notes for distributors:
175 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
176 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
177 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
179 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
181 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
185 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
186 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
187 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
188 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
189 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
190 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
191 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
192 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
193 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
194 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
196 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
198 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
199 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
200 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
201 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
202 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
203 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
204 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
205 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
206 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
207 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
208 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
211 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
213 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
216 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
218 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
219 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
220 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
222 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
223 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
224 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
225 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
226 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
227 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
228 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
229 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
230 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
231 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
232 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
233 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
234 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
235 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
236 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
238 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
240 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
241 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
243 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
246 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
248 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
249 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
251 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
254 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
255 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
256 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
257 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
258 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
259 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
260 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
261 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
262 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
263 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
264 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
265 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
266 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
267 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
268 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
269 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
270 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
271 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
272 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
274 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
276 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
277 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
278 • Fix syslog string processing
280 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
281 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
283 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
285 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
287 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
289 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
292 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
293 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
294 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
295 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
297 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
298 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
301 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
305 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
307 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
308 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
309 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
311 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
313 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
314 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
315 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
316 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
317 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
318 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
319 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon