1 D-Bus 1.4.10 (UNRELEASED)
4 Notes for distributors:
6 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
7 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
8 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
10 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
12 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
16 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
17 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
18 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
19 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
20 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
21 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
22 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
23 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
24 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
26 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
29 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
31 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
32 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
33 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
35 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
36 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
37 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
38 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
39 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
40 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
41 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
42 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
43 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
44 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
45 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
46 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
47 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
48 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
49 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
51 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
53 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
54 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
56 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
59 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
61 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
62 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
64 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
67 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
68 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
69 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
70 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
71 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
72 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
73 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
74 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
75 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
76 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
77 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
78 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
79 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
80 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
81 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
82 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
83 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
84 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
85 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
87 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
89 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
90 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
91 • Fix syslog string processing
93 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
94 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
96 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
98 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
100 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
102 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
105 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
106 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
107 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
108 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
110 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
111 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
114 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
118 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
120 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
121 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
122 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
124 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
126 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
127 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
128 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
129 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
130 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
131 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
132 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon