1 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
4 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
7 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
8 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
9 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
10 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
11 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
12 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
14 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
16 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
17 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
18 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
19 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
20 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
21 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
23 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
26 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
28 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
29 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
30 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
32 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
33 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
34 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
35 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
36 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
37 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
38 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
39 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
40 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
41 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
42 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
43 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
44 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
45 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
46 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
48 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
50 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
51 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
53 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
56 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
58 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
59 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
61 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
64 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
65 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
66 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
67 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
68 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
69 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
70 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
71 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
72 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
73 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
74 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
75 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
76 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
77 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
78 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
79 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
80 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
81 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
82 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
84 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
86 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
87 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
88 • Fix syslog string processing
90 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
91 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
93 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
95 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
97 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
99 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
102 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
103 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
104 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
105 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
107 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
108 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
111 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
115 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
117 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
118 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
119 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
121 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
123 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
124 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
125 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
126 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
127 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
128 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
129 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon