1 D-Bus 1.9.2 (UNRELEASED)
4 The “structurally unsound flapjack” release.
8 • D-Bus Specification version 0.25
9 · new value 'const' for EmitsChangedSignal annotation
10 (fd.o #72958, Lennart Poettering)
11 · new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag, for PolicyKit and similar
12 (fd.o #83449; Lennart Poettering, Simon McVittie)
13 · annotate table of types with reserved/basic/container, and for
14 basic types, fixed/string-like
15 · clarify arbitrary limits by quoting them in mebibytes
17 • New API: add accessors for the ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag
18 (fd.o #83449, Simon McVittie)
20 • Add dbus-test-tool, a D-Bus swiss army knife with multiple subcommands,
21 useful for debugging and performance testing:
22 · dbus-test-tool spam: send repeated messages
23 · dbus-test-tool echo: send an empty reply for all method calls
24 · dbus-test-tool black-hole: do not reply to method calls
25 (fd.o #34140; Alban Crequy, Simon McVittie, Will Thompson)
27 • Add support for process ID in credentials-passing on NetBSD
28 (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche)
30 • Add an example script to find potentially undesired match rules
31 (fd.o #84598, Alban Crequy)
33 • Document the central assumption that makes our use of credentials-passing
34 secure (fd.o #83499, Simon McVittie)
36 • Replace the dbus-glib section of the tutorial with a GDBus recommendation,
37 and add some links to GDBus and QtDBus documentation (fd.o #25140,
42 • Use a less confusing NoReply message when disconnected with a reply pending
43 (fd.o #76112, Simon McVittie)
45 • Make the .pc file relocatable by letting pkg-config do all variable
46 expansion itself (fd.o #75858, Руслан Ижбулатов)
48 • Fix a build failure on platforms with kqueue, which regressed in 1.9.0
49 (fd.o #85563, Patrick Welche)
51 • Consistently save errno after socket calls (fd.o #83625, Simon McVittie)
53 • In dbus-spawn, when the grandchild process exits due to a failed exec(),
54 do not lose the exec() errno (fd.o #24821, Simon McVittie)
56 • Do not fail the tests if a parent process has leaked non-close-on-exec
57 file descriptors to us (fd.o #73689, fd.o #83899; Simon McVittie)
59 • Do not fail the tests on Unix platforms with incomplete
60 credentials-passing support, but do fail if we can't pass credentials
61 on a platform where it is known to work: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
62 (fd.o #69702, Simon McVittie)
64 • Detect accept4, dirfd, inotify_init1, pipe2, and Unix fd passing
65 when building with cmake, and expand test coverage there
66 (fd.o #73689; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
68 D-Bus 1.9.0 (2014-10-01)
71 The “tiered cheeses” release.
75 • Support for the systemd: (LISTEN_FDS) pseudo-transport on Linux now
76 requires either the libsystemd or libsd-daemon shared library, dropping the
77 embedded convenience copy of sd-daemon (fd.o #71818, Simon)
79 Build-time configuration changes:
81 • The Stats interface is now enabled by default, and locked-down to
82 root-only on the system bus. Configure with --disable-stats
83 to disable it altogether on memory- or disk-constrained systems,
84 or see ${docdir}/examples/ to open it up to non-root users on the
85 system bus or restrict access on the session bus.
86 (fd.o #80759; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
88 • The CMake build system now builds the same shared library name as Autotools
89 on at least Linux and Windows:
90 - on Linux (and perhaps other Unix platforms), it previously built
91 libdbus-1.so, but now builds libdbus-1.so.3.* with development
92 symlink libdbus-1.so and SONAME/symlink libdbus-1.so.3
93 - on Windows, it previously built either libdbus-1.dll (release) or
94 libdbus-1d.dll (debug), but now builds libdbus-1-3.dll, copied to
95 libdbus-1.dll for compatibility with older applications.
96 (fd.o #74117, Ralf Habacker)
100 • D-Bus Specification version 0.24
101 · document how to quote match rules (fd.o #24307, Simon McVittie)
102 · explicitly say that most message types never expect a reply
103 regardles of whether they have NO_REPLY_EXPECTED
104 (fd.o #75749, Simon McVittie)
106 • on Unix platforms, disable Nagle's algorithm on TCP connections to improve
107 initial latency (fd.o #75544, Matt Hoosier)
109 • use backtrace() if it is in -lexecinfo instead of libc, as on NetBSD
110 (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche)
112 • in dbus-monitor, print more information about file descriptors
113 (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy)
115 • do not install system bus configuration if built for Windows
116 (fd.o #83583; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
118 • Add GetAllMatchRules to the Stats interface (fd.o #24307, Alban Crequy)
120 • Add a regression test for file descriptor passing (fd.o #83622,
125 • fix an incorrect error message if a Unix socket path is too long
126 (fd.o #73887, Antoine Jacoutot)
128 • in an MSYS/Cygwin environment, pass Unix-style filenames to xmlto,
129 fixing documentation generation (fd.o #75860, Руслан Ижбулатов)
131 • in Unix with X11, avoid giving dbus-launch a misleading argv[0]
132 in ps(1) (fd.o #69716, Chengwei Yang)
134 • avoid calling poll() with timeout < -1, which is considered invalid
135 on FreeBSD and NetBSD (fd.o #78480, Jaap Boender)
137 • be portable to BSD-derived platforms where O_CLOEXEC is unavailable in libc
138 (like Mac OS X 10.6), or available in libc but unsupported by the kernel
139 (fd.o #77032; rmvsxop, OBATA Akio, Patrick Welche)
141 • Fix include path for test/internal/*.c with cmake (Ralf Habacker)
143 • Documentation improvements
144 (fd.o #80795, #84313; Thomas Haller, Sebastian Rasmussen)
146 • in dbus-monitor, do not leak file descriptors that we have monitored
147 (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy)
149 • Set the close-on-exec flag for the inotify file descriptor, even
150 if built with CMake or older libc (fd.o #73689, Simon McVittie)
152 • Remove some LGPL code from the Windows dbus-daemon
153 (fd.o #57272, Ralf Habacker)
155 D-Bus 1.8.8 (2014-09-16)
158 The "smashy smashy egg man" release.
162 • Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which
163 could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun.
164 (CVE-2014-3635, fd.o #83622; Simon McVittie)
166 • Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message
167 from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of
168 connections from exhausting the system bus' file descriptors under
169 Linux's default rlimit. Distributors or system administrators with a
170 more restrictive fd limit may wish to reduce these limits further.
172 Additionally, on Linux this prevents a second denial of service
173 in which the dbus-daemon can be made to exceed the maximum number
174 of fds per sendmsg() and disconnect the process that would have
176 (CVE-2014-3636, fd.o #82820; Alban Crequy)
178 • Disconnect connections that still have a fd pending unmarshalling after
179 a new configurable limit, pending_fd_timeout (defaulting to 150 seconds),
180 removing the possibility of creating an abusive connection that cannot be
181 disconnected by setting up a circular reference to a connection's
183 (CVE-2014-3637, fd.o #80559; Alban Crequy)
185 • Reduce default for maximum pending replies per connection from 8192 to 128,
186 mitigating an algorithmic complexity denial-of-service attack
187 (CVE-2014-3638, fd.o #81053; Alban Crequy)
189 • Reduce default for authentication timeout on the system bus from
190 30 seconds to 5 seconds, avoiding denial of service by using up
191 all unauthenticated connection slots; and when all unauthenticated
192 connection slots are used up, make new connection attempts block
193 instead of disconnecting them.
194 (CVE-2014-3639, fd.o #80919; Alban Crequy)
198 • Check for libsystemd from systemd >= 209, falling back to
199 the older separate libraries if not found (Umut Tezduyar Lindskog,
202 • On Linux, use prctl() to disable core dumps from a test executable
203 that deliberately raises SIGSEGV to test dbus-daemon's handling
204 of that condition (fd.o #83772, Simon McVittie)
206 • Fix compilation with --enable-stats (fd.o #81043, Gentoo #507232;
209 • Improve documentation for running tests on Windows (fd.o #41252,
212 D-Bus 1.8.6 (2014-06-02)
217 • On Linux ≥ 2.6.37-rc4, if sendmsg() fails with ETOOMANYREFS, silently drop
218 the message. This prevents an attack in which a malicious client can
219 make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service, which is a local
221 (fd.o #80163, CVE-2014-3532; Alban Crequy)
223 • Track remaining Unix file descriptors correctly when more than one
224 message in quick succession contains fds. This prevents another attack
225 in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system
227 (fd.o #79694, fd.o #80469, CVE-2014-3533; Alejandro Martínez Suárez,
228 Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
232 • When dbus-launch --exit-with-session starts a dbus-daemon but then cannot
233 attach to a session, kill the dbus-daemon as intended
234 (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
236 D-Bus 1.8.4 (2014-06-10)
241 • Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered and fixed a denial-of-service
242 flaw in dbus-daemon, part of the reference implementation of D-Bus.
243 Additionally, in highly unusual environments the same flaw could lead to
244 a side channel between processes that should not be able to communicate.
245 (CVE-2014-3477, fd.o #78979)
247 D-Bus 1.8.2 (2014-04-30)
250 The “nobody wants red” release.
254 • in the CMake build system, add some hints for Linux users cross-compiling
255 Windows D-Bus binaries to be able to run tests under Wine
256 (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker)
258 • add Documentation key to dbus.service (fd.o #77447, Cameron Norman)
262 • in "dbus-uuidgen --ensure", try to copy systemd's /etc/machine-id
263 to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id instead of generating an entirely new ID
264 (fd.o #77941, Simon McVittie)
266 • if dbus-launch receives an X error very quickly, do not kill
267 unrelated processes (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко)
269 • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon, instead of the
270 previous 64 (fd.o #71297; Cristian Onet, Ralf Habacker)
272 • cope with \r\n newlines in regression tests, since on Windows,
273 dbus-daemon.exe uses text mode (fd.o #75863, Руслан Ижбулатов)
275 D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20)
278 The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release.
280 This starts a new stable branch. The 1.6.x branch is now considered to be
281 outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as security
282 flaws. The 1.4.x and 1.2.x branches no longer have upstream support and
283 are unlikely to get any more releases, but if distributors still need to
284 support them, please share security patches via upstream.
286 Summary of changes since 1.6.x:
288 • libdbus always behaves as if dbus_threads_init_default() had been called
289 (thread-safety by default)
290 • new dbus-run-session tool, replacing certain misuses of dbus-launch
291 • dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again
292 • new org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials method
293 • GetConnectionUnixProcessID also works correctly on Windows, returning
294 the Windows process ID
295 • GetConnectionWindowsSID returns the correct SID on Windows
296 • expat is required, libxml2 can no longer be used as a substitute
297 • the userDB cache is required, and cannot be disabled
298 • a 64-bit integer type (either int, long, long long or _int64) is required
299 • better systemd-journald integration on Linux
300 • fixed long-standing fd and array leaks when failing to parse a message
301 • fixed referenced-but-never-freed parent nodes (effectively memory leaks)
302 when using certain object-path allocation patterns, notably in Avahi
303 • better defaults for Windows support
304 • better CMake support
305 • better portability to mingw32, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX and Hurd
306 • the source language for the man pages is now Docbook XML
308 Enhancements since 1.7.10:
310 • Enhance the CMake build system to check for GLib and compile/run
311 a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, #73495; Ralf Habacker)
315 • don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840,
318 • fix compilation of systemd journal support on older systemd versions where
319 sd-journal.h doesn't include syslog.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
321 • fix compilation on older MSVC versions by including stdlib.h
322 (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
324 • Allow <allow_anonymous/> to appear in an included configuration file
325 (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier)
327 Test behaviour changes since 1.7.10:
329 • If the tests crash with an assertion failure, they no longer default to
330 blocking for a debugger to be attached. Set DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT in the
331 environment if you want the old behaviour.
333 • To improve debuggability, the dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-eavesdrop tests
334 can be run with an external dbus-daemon by setting
335 DBUS_TEST_DAEMON_ADDRESS in the environment. Test-cases that require
336 an unusually-configured dbus-daemon are skipped.
338 D-Bus 1.7.10 (2014-01-06)
341 The “weighted companion cube” release.
343 This is a release candidate for D-Bus 1.8.
345 D-Bus Specification 0.23:
347 • don't require messages with no INTERFACE to be dispatched
348 (fd.o #68597, Simon McVittie)
350 • document "tcp:bind=..." and "nonce-tcp:bind=..." (fd.o #72301,
353 • define "listenable" and "connectable" addresses, and discuss
354 the difference (fd.o #61303, Simon McVittie)
358 • support printing Unix file descriptors in dbus-send, dbus-monitor
359 (fd.o #70592, Robert Ancell)
361 • don't install systemd units if --disable-systemd is given
362 (fd.o #71818, Chengwei Yang)
366 • don't leak memory on out-of-memory while listing activatable or
367 active services (fd.o #71526, Radoslaw Pajak)
369 • fix undefined behaviour in a regression test (fd.o #69924, DreamNik)
371 • escape Unix socket addresses correctly (fd.o #46013, Chengwei Yang)
373 • on SELinux systems, don't assume that SECCLASS_DBUS, DBUS__ACQUIRE_SVC
374 and DBUS__SEND_MSG are numerically equal to their values in the
375 reference policy (fd.o #88719, osmond sun)
377 • define PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION if missing from MinGW < 4 headers
378 (fd.o #71366, Matt Fischer)
380 • define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid conflicts between winsock.h and
381 winsock2.h (fd.o #71405, Matt Fischer)
383 • do not return failure from _dbus_read_nonce() with no error set,
384 preventing a potential crash (fd.o #72298, Chengwei Yang)
386 • on BSD systems, avoid some O(1)-per-process memory and fd leaks in kqueue,
387 preventing test failures (fd.o #69332, fd.o #72213; Chengwei Yang)
389 • fix warning spam on Hurd by not trying to set SO_REUSEADDR on Unix sockets,
390 which doesn't do anything anyway on at least Linux and FreeBSD
391 (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
393 • fix use of TCP sockets on FreeBSD and Hurd by tolerating EINVAL from
394 sendmsg() with SCM_CREDS (retrying with plain send()), and looking
395 for credentials more correctly (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
397 • ensure that tests run with a temporary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to avoid
398 getting mixed up in XDG/systemd "user sessions" (fd.o #61301,
401 • refresh cached policy rules for existing connections when bus
402 configuration changes (fd.o #39463, Chengwei Yang)
404 D-Bus 1.7.8 (2013-11-01)
407 The “extreme hills” release.
411 • If systemd support is enabled, libsystemd-journal is now required.
415 • When activating a non-systemd service under systemd, annotate its
416 stdout/stderr with its bus name in the Journal. Known limitation:
417 because the socket is opened before forking, the process will still be
418 logged as if it had dbus-daemon's process ID and user ID.
419 (fd.o #68559, Chengwei Yang)
421 • Document more configuration elements in dbus-daemon(1)
422 (fd.o #69125, Chengwei Yang)
426 • Don't leak string arrays or fds if dbus_message_iter_get_args_valist()
427 unpacks them and then encounters an error (fd.o #21259, Chengwei Yang)
429 • If compiled with libaudit, retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE so we can write
430 disallowed method calls to the audit log, fixing a regression in 1.7.6
431 (fd.o #49062, Colin Walters)
433 • path_namespace='/' in match rules incorrectly matched nothing; it
434 now matches everything. (fd.o #70799, Simon McVittie)
436 D-Bus 1.7.6 (2013-10-09)
439 The “CSI Shrewsbury” release.
441 Build-time configuration changes:
443 • Directory change notification via dnotify on Linux is no longer
444 supported; it hadn't compiled successfully since 2010 in any case.
445 If you don't have inotify (Linux) or kqueue (*BSD), you will need
446 to send SIGHUP to the dbus-daemon when its configuration changes.
447 (fd.o #33001, Chengwei Yang)
449 • Compiling with --disable-userdb-cache is no longer supported;
450 it didn't work since at least 2008, and would lead to an extremely
451 slow dbus-daemon even it worked. (fd.o #15589, #17133, #66947;
454 • The DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS CMake option didn't actually disable most
455 assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent
456 with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
458 • --with-valgrind=auto enables Valgrind instrumentation if and only if
459 valgrind headers are available. The default is still --with-valgrind=no.
460 (fd.o #56925, Simon McVittie)
464 • Platforms with no 64-bit integer type are no longer supported.
465 (fd.o #65429, Simon McVittie)
467 • GNU make is now (documented to be) required. (fd.o #48277, Simon McVittie)
469 • Full test coverage no longer requires dbus-glib, although the tests do not
470 exercise the shared library (only a static copy) if dbus-glib is missing.
471 (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
475 • D-Bus Specification 0.22
476 · Document GetAdtAuditSessionData() and
477 GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext() (fd.o #54445, Simon)
478 · Fix example .service file (fd.o #66481, Chengwei Yang)
479 · Don't claim D-Bus is "low-latency" (lower than what?), just
480 give factual statements about it supporting async use
481 (fd.o #65141, Justin Lee)
482 · Document the contents of .service files, and the fact that
483 system services' filenames are constrained
484 (fd.o #66608; Simon McVittie, Chengwei Yang)
486 • Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if
487 dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with
488 older libdbus, library users should continue to call
489 dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so.
490 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
492 • Add GetConnectionCredentials() method (fd.o #54445, Simon)
494 • New API: dbus_setenv(), a simple wrapper around setenv().
495 Note that this is not thread-safe. (fd.o #39196, Simon)
497 • Add dbus-send --peer=ADDRESS (connect to a given peer-to-peer connection,
498 like --address=ADDRESS in previous versions) and dbus-send --bus=ADDRESS
499 (connect to a given bus, like dbus-monitor --address=ADDRESS).
500 dbus-send --address still exists for backwards compatibility,
501 but is no longer documented. (fd.o #48816, Andrey Mazo)
504 · "dbus-daemon --nofork" is allowed on Windows again. (fd.o #68852,
509 • Avoid an infinite busy-loop if a signal interrupts waitpid()
510 (fd.o #68945, Simon McVittie)
512 • Clean up memory for parent nodes when objects are unexported
513 (fd.o #60176, Thomas Fitzsimmons)
515 • Make dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages(x, FALSE) behave as
516 documented. Previously, it assumed its second parameter was TRUE.
517 (fd.o #69165, Chengwei Yang)
519 • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly
520 (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang)
522 • Document <servicedir> search order correctly (fd.o #66994, Chengwei Yang)
524 • Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4.
525 (fd.o #65923, Chengwei Yang)
527 • If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free
528 an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang)
530 • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list
531 that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang)
533 • fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang)
535 • fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279,
538 • Avoid calling function parameters "interface" since certain Windows headers
539 have a namespace-polluting macro of that name (fd.o #66493, Ivan Romanov)
541 • Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang)
543 • Various thread-safety improvements to static variables (fd.o #68610,
546 • Make "make -j check" work (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie)
548 • Fix a NULL pointer dereference on an unlikely error path
549 (fd.o #69327, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
551 • Improve valgrind memory pool tracking (fd.o #69326,
554 • Don't over-allocate memory in dbus-monitor (fd.o #69329,
557 • dbus-monitor can monitor dbus-daemon < 1.5.6 again
558 (fd.o #66107, Chengwei Yang)
561 · If accept4() fails with EINVAL, as it can on older Linux kernels
562 with newer glibc, try accept() instead of going into a busy-loop.
563 (fd.o #69026, Chengwei Yang)
564 · If socket() or socketpair() fails with EINVAL or EPROTOTYPE,
565 for instance on Hurd or older Linux with a new glibc, try without
566 SOCK_CLOEXEC. (fd.o #69073; Pino Toscano, Chengwei Yang)
567 · Fix a file descriptor leak on an error code path.
568 (fd.o #69182, Sviatoslav Chagaev)
569 · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables
571 · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang)
572 · Don't fail the autolaunch test if there is no DISPLAY (fd.o #40352, Simon)
573 · Use dbus-launch from the builddir for testing, not the installed copy
574 (fd.o #37849, Chengwei Yang)
575 · Fix compilation if writev() is unavailable (fd.o #69409,
577 · Remove broken support for LOCAL_CREDS credentials passing, and
578 document where each credential-passing scheme is used (fd.o #60340,
580 · Make autogen.sh work on *BSD by not assuming GNU coreutils functionality
581 (fd.o #35881, #69787; Chengwei Yang)
582 · dbus-monitor: be portable to NetBSD (fd.o #69842, Chengwei Yang)
583 · dbus-launch: stop using non-portable asprintf (fd.o #37849, Simon)
584 · Improve error reporting from the setuid activation helper (fd.o #66728,
588 · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help'
589 (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker)
590 · Add support for looking up local TCPv4 clients' credentials on
591 Windows XP via the undocumented AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack
592 function (fd.o #66060, Ralf Habacker)
593 · Fix insufficient dependency-tracking (fd.o #68505, Simon McVittie)
594 · Don't include wspiapi.h, fixing a compiler warning (fd.o #68852,
598 · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing
599 conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
600 · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters)
601 · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker)
602 · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations
603 etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005, #66257, #69165, #69410, #70218;
604 Chengwei Yang, Vasiliy Balyasnyy)
606 D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13)
609 The “but is your thread-safety thread-safe?” release.
613 • CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial
614 of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea.
619 • The Windows version of libdbus now contains a C++ source file, used
620 to provide global initialization when the library is loaded.
621 gcc (mingw*) users should ensure that g++ is also installed.
623 • The libxml2-based configuration reader (which hasn't worked for 2.5 years,
624 and was never the recommended option) has been removed. Expat is now a
629 • It should now be safe to call dbus_threads_init_default() from any thread,
630 at any time. Authors of loadable modules and plugins that use libdbus
631 should consider doing so during initialization.
632 (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
634 • Improve dbus-send documentation and command-line parsing (fd.o #65424,
638 · dbus-run-session: experimental new tool to start a temporary D-Bus
639 session, e.g. for regression tests or a text console, replacing
640 certain uses of dbus-launch which weren't really correct
645 • In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value
646 (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang)
649 · Fix a crash similar to CVE-2013-2168 the first time we try to use syslog
650 on a platform not defining LOG_PERROR, such as Solaris or QNX.
651 This regressed in 1.7.0. (Simon)
652 · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before
653 systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang)
654 · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write()
658 · Under cmake, install runtime libraries (DLLs) into bin/ instead of lib/
659 so that Windows finds them (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
661 D-Bus 1.7.2 (2013-04-25)
664 The “only partially opaque” release.
666 Configuration changes:
668 • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the
669 session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default
670 limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are
671 reduced further, to 128.
675 • D-Bus Specification 0.21
676 · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF,
677 U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072,
682 • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot
683 (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk
684 (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams)
686 • Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker,
690 · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie)
691 · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication
692 (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen)
693 · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket
694 (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez)
695 · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on
696 Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen)
697 · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd
698 (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt)
699 · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for
700 meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker)
701 · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under
702 QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer)
705 · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials;
706 pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security
707 identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787,
710 D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22)
713 The "Disingenuous Assertions" release.
715 This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6
716 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions
717 or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
719 Build-time configuration changes:
721 • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer
722 supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and
723 --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you
724 usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are
727 • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer
728 supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and
729 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead.
731 • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a
732 cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at
733 <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools
734 as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set
735 PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately.
739 • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake).
740 • man2html is no longer used.
744 • D-Bus Specification 0.20
745 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that
746 implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters)
747 · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie)
748 · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!)
750 • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating
751 the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake.
752 (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
756 • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system
757 bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon)
759 • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings
760 with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan)
762 • Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560,
765 • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
767 • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat
768 (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker)
770 • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733,
773 • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie)
776 · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on
777 (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon)
778 · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927,
780 · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681)
781 · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer)
784 · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now
785 "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself
786 and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables
787 described above if you require a different autolaunch scope.
788 (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie)
789 · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker)
791 • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319,
794 D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28)
797 The "Fix one thing, break another" release.
799 • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening
800 work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202
801 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given
802 the difficulty of making this work without extensive
803 changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is
806 D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28)
809 The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release.
811 • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202)
812 Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie,
813 Geoffrey Thomas, and others.
815 · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin)
816 · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h
817 before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith)
819 D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18)
822 • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with
823 a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console
824 (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner)
826 • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657,
829 • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2;
830 fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie)
833 · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space
834 (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron)
836 D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27)
839 The "Ice Cabbage" release.
841 • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4
842 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie)
844 • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM
845 (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie)
847 • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from
848 Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with
849 --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default;
850 distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode.
851 (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie)
853 • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds,
854 fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie)
857 · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie)
859 D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05)
862 The “soul of this machine has improved” release.
864 This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will
865 be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch.
867 Summary of changes since 1.4.x:
870 · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix
871 · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent)
873 • D-Bus Specification v0.19
875 • New dbus-daemon features
876 · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to
877 own names like com.example.Service.Instance3
878 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies
879 · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd
880 · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules
881 · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true
884 · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.)
885 · dbus_type_is_valid()
886 · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type
889 · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes
890 · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors
891 · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows
892 · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20
894 • Other major implementation changes
895 · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability
896 · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like
897 dbus_threads_init_default() instead
898 · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance
901 · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind)
902 · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats)
903 · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests
904 and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1)
906 Changes since 1.5.12:
908 • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
909 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen)
911 • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as
912 non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot)
914 • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove
915 an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds
916 (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie)
918 D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27)
921 The “Big Book of Science” release.
923 • Add public API to validate various string types:
924 dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(),
925 dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8()
926 (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie)
928 • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their
929 own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie)
931 • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1)
932 (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie)
934 • Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/>
935 in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy)
938 · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again
939 on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie)
940 · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64
941 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey)
943 D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21)
946 The "fire in Delerium" release.
948 On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base
949 and SUSv2) is now required.
951 • D-Bus Specification 0.19:
952 · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names,
953 and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names,
954 and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie)
955 · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and
956 where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306;
958 · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering)
960 • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation
961 as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it
962 takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie)
964 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
967 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
968 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
969 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
970 · only create batch files on Windows
971 · fix option and cache syntax
972 · add help-options target
973 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
974 own version (fd.o #41033)
976 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
977 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
979 • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt)
981 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
982 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
984 • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with
985 DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie)
987 • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used
988 by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting
989 unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie)
991 • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for
992 setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid
993 breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use
994 it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520,
997 • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug
998 libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind
999 (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie)
1001 • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie)
1003 • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz)
1005 • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment,
1006 abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks
1007 into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048,
1010 • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048,
1014 · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has
1015 been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex
1016 (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie)
1017 · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches
1018 welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris
1019 event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker)
1020 · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check
1021 whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering)
1022 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
1023 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
1024 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
1025 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
1026 · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch
1027 helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation
1028 attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules
1029 (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie)
1032 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
1033 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
1034 · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609,
1037 D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21)
1040 The "cross-metering" release.
1042 In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all
1043 of the bugfixes from 1.4.16.
1045 • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds
1046 (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie)
1048 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
1049 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
1050 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
1051 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
1053 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
1054 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
1056 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
1058 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
1060 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
1063 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
1065 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
1066 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
1068 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
1069 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
1072 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
1073 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
1074 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
1075 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
1076 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
1078 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
1079 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
1080 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
1081 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
1082 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
1083 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
1084 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
1085 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
1088 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
1089 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
1090 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
1091 · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
1093 D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29)
1096 The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release.
1098 In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the
1099 bugfixes from 1.4.14.
1101 Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need
1102 changes to work as intended):
1104 • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a
1105 different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this
1106 behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will
1107 not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed
1108 (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano)
1112 • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252;
1113 Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie)
1114 · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules
1115 · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages
1116 · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you
1117 · promote the type system to be a top-level section
1119 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
1120 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE,
1121 and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
1123 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
1124 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
1125 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
1127 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
1130 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
1131 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
1133 • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file
1134 descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie)
1136 • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if
1137 the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache,
1138 which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393,
1141 • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker)
1143 • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610;
1144 Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering)
1146 • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message
1147 (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie)
1149 • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from
1150 a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats
1151 (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie)
1153 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
1155 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
1156 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
1157 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
1158 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
1161 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
1162 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
1163 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
1164 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
1165 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
1167 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
1168 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
1169 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
1171 D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10)
1174 Security (local denial of service):
1176 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
1177 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
1178 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
1179 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
1183 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
1184 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
1185 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
1187 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
1188 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
1189 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
1190 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
1194 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
1195 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
1197 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
1198 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
1199 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
1200 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
1201 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
1203 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
1204 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
1206 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
1207 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
1209 • Windows-specific changes:
1210 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
1212 D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01)
1215 The "Boar Hunter" release.
1217 Notes for distributors:
1219 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
1220 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
1221 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
1223 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
1225 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
1229 • D-Bus Specification v0.17
1230 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant
1231 (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie)
1232 · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen)
1233 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
1234 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
1235 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
1236 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
1237 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
1238 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
1239 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
1240 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
1241 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
1242 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
1243 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
1244 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
1246 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
1248 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
1249 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
1250 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
1251 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
1252 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
1253 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
1254 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
1255 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
1256 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
1257 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
1258 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
1261 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
1263 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
1266 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
1267 flying shark" release.
1269 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
1270 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
1271 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
1272 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
1273 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
1274 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
1276 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
1278 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
1279 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
1280 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
1281 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
1282 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
1283 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
1285 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
1288 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
1290 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
1291 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
1292 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
1294 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
1295 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
1296 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
1297 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
1298 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
1299 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
1300 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
1301 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
1302 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
1303 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
1304 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
1305 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
1306 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
1307 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
1308 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
1310 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
1312 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
1313 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
1315 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
1318 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
1320 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
1321 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
1323 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
1326 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
1327 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
1328 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
1329 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
1330 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
1331 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
1332 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
1333 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
1334 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
1335 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
1336 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
1337 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
1338 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
1339 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
1340 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
1341 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
1342 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
1343 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
1344 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
1346 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
1348 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
1349 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
1350 • Fix syslog string processing
1352 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
1353 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
1355 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
1357 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
1359 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
1361 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
1364 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
1365 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
1366 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
1367 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
1369 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
1370 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
1371 • Various bug fixes.
1373 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
1377 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
1379 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
1380 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
1381 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
1383 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
1385 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
1386 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
1387 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
1388 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
1389 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
1390 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
1391 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon