* Release 0.36

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D-BUS 0.36 (23 August 2005)
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- Maximum sized of cached messages have been reduced to 10K
- Match rules now allow matching on arguments inside the message
- introspect.xsl XSLT style sheet added for formatting introspection
  data into XHTML for analysis
- Python bindings:
  - now have working type objects for explicit
    typecasting
  - Variant type has been added
  - Dictionaries, Variants and Arrays can all be passed the signiture or
    type(s) of their children
  - the optional timeout= keyword has been added when making method calls
  - match on args has been implemented
  - a .pth file has been added for dealing with libraries and python files
    being in different directories such as in 64bit installs
  - various bug fixes
- GLib bindings:
  - deeply recursive types now supported
  - many symbols are no longer exported as part of the public API
  - various memleak and other bug fixes

D-BUS 0.35.2 (17 July 2005)
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- Rename Unix Security Context to SELinux Security Context in API
- Fixed more dist errors that distcheck didn't pick up on
- Fixed various bugs in the python bindings that prevented them from working

D-BUS 0.35.1 (16 July 2005)
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- Fixed dist error where python/dbus_bindings.pxd was being shipped 
  instead of dbus_bindings.pxd.in
- Use this instead of the 0.35 tarball 

D-BUS 0.35 (15 July 2005)
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- --with-dbus-user added to the configure scripts for configuring the 
  user the system bus runs on
- --with-console-auth-dir added to configure scripts for configuring the
  directory to look in for console user locks
- service files for auto-starting D-Bus services now has the ability to pass
  in command line arguments to the executable
- Huge auto-start bug squashed which caused some services not to start when
  requested in rapid succession
- SE-Linux security contexts can now be appended to messages for inspection
  by services that enforce their own security policies
- Colin says the GLib binding are ready for general consumption
- New GLib tutorial
- New GLib example code
- Python bindings are now version (0,42,0)
- Python bindings API has changed on the service side
- dbus.service has been split out as a seperate module
- dbus.service.Service is renamed to dbus.service.BusName
- dbus.service.Object has swapped the bus_name and object_path constructor
  parameters to make it easier to do inheritance over the bus
- dbus.glib has been seperated out in order to lessen the dependency on glib
  and to allow other mainloops to be integrated with the bindings including
  a planned generic mainloop for non-gui apps.
- Python bindings now aquire the GIL when calling back into the python
  interpreter.  Fixes crashes when using threading and other random segfaults.
- New Python tutorial
- Numerous D-Bus bug fixes all around

D-BUS 0.34 (15 June 2005)
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- dbus_connection_disconnect is deprecated in favor of dbus_connection_close
- The bus can now use D_NOTIFY (if available) to check when configuration files 
  have changed and reload them
- New dbus_message_has_path/member/interface API added
- The Ping message from the org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer interface is now handled
- Complete glib bindings overhaul (and are still under construction)
- Tutorial now has an updated GLib section 
- GLib bindings can now send/receive hash tables, arrays and other complex types
- Python bindings overhaul (most public facing API's done)
- Python bindings have been split up into separate files
- Python added new type classes for hinting to the marshaler what type
  to send over the wire
- Python bindings now have decorators for specifying exported methods and signals
- Numerous bug fixes

D-BUS 0.33 (25 Apr 2005)
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- downgrade requirement from GTK+-2.6 to 2.4 for building gtk components
- python binding API's have been overhalled to be more "pythonic" and cleaner
- python bindings now export dbus.version which is set to (0,40,0)
- python bindings now implement the org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable interface
- python binding match rules are now more flexable
- make check has been fixed
- many, many major bug fixes

D-BUS 0.32 (29 Mar 2005)
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- mono bindings now compiles correctly
- mono binding cleanups
- glib bindings generates wrappers for bus methods in dbus-glib-bindings.h
- glib binding cleanus
- users and groups can now be specified by UID and GID in config files
- numerous memory leak fixes
- various other fixes

D-BUS 0.31 (07 Mar 2005)
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- land the new message args API and recursive type system
- add docs and fixed Doxygen warnings throught source
- split out some functions not needed in libdbus to *-util.c source files
- take out type convienience functions
- libdbus now back below 150K
- booleans are now 32-bit instead of 8-bit
- specification updated
- grand renaming to strip out the use of "service"
  just say "name" instead (or "bus name" when ambiguous)
- rename dbus-daemon-1 to dbus-daemon throughout
- rename activation to auto-start
- auto-start on by default now
- note that libdbus is the low-level API
- python bindings updated to the new API
- mono bindings updated to the new API
- add 16 bit types
- dictionaries are now ARRAYS of DICT_ENTRY
- dbus-glib-tool renamed to dbus-binding-tool
- massive rewrite of the glib bindings
- saner names for the dbus interface, object path and service defines
- new functions for handling type signitures
- bump sonames for libdbus and libdbus-glib
- various small fixes

D-BUS 0.23 (11 Jan 2005)
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- add setgroups() to drop supplementary groups
- updated SELinux support
- add an "at console" security policy
- fix a bug where org.freedesktop.DBus wasn't recognized as an existing
  service.
- error out if --enable-mono is explicitly set and mono libs can't be found
- set the max_match_rules_per_connection limit from the config file.
- removed dbus_bug_get_with_g_main since it's been replaced by
  dbus_g_bus_get
- fix fd leaks in socket code
- lots and lots of mono binding updates, including fixes to make it
  compatible with Mono 1.1.3
- added --nofork option to override config file setting at runtime
- added support for int64 and uint64 to the python bindings
- lots of python binding updates
- config file DTD updates
- use SerivceOwnerChanges signal instead of ServiceCreated and
  ServiceDeleted
- fixes to the authentication code
- new init script for Slackware
- print out the pid even when --fork is passed
- increase preallocation sizes in DBusMessage to heavily reduce
  reallocs
- lots of performance enhancements
- lots more small bug fixes

D-BUS 0.22
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- add --reply-timeout to dbus-send
- fix a memleak
- fix Solaris/Forte build
- switch to AFL 2.1 rather than 2.0 to address patent termination clause 
  concerns
- add SELinux support
- mostly repair libxml backend for config parser, still doesn't 
  pass out of memory tests
- fix distcheck to include language bindings
- add GetConnectionUnixUser method on bus driver
- also for UnixProcessID
- lots of Python, Mono, other binding fixes
- change GLib bindings to not include dbus/dbus.h (fully encapsulate libdbus)
- pass paths as strings, not arrays of string
- add message signature header field
- cleanups to marshaling code
- clean up authentication code
- reload conf files on SIGHUP
- rename SERVICE/SENDER_SERVICE to DESTINATION/SENDER
- fix circular conf file inclusion
- allow empty arrays
- tons of other small bugfixes

D-BUS 0.21
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- implement "auto activation" flag on messages, so the destination 
  service can be launched automatically
- fix a bug in custom type marshaling
- optimize case where multiple apps activate the same service
  (avoid "thundering herd")
- add dynamic service file discovery/reloading
- fix a busy loop when blocking for a reply
- fix a 64-bit crash involving varargs
- fix a bus crash when processing an AcquireService
- allow appending TYPE_BYTE via append_args_valist
- fix dicts-inside-dicts
- enhancements to Python and Qt bindings

D-BUS 0.20
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This release lands some very large API changes and numerous bugfixes.
The list of changes is too large to fully document here; please refer
to the documentation, and message-bus-list archives.

D-BUS 0.13
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This is probably the last release before landing the large API changes
on the "dbus-object-names" branch.

- fix system bus to always use filesystem socket; anyone 
  can create any abstract socket, which isn't secure 
  since if you can crash the system bus you'd be able
  to replace it.
- add DTD for configuration file
- improve specification a bit

D-BUS 0.12
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- fix "service messagebus status" on Red Hat
- fix demarshaling of DBUS_TYPE_NAMED
- fix "eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session`" to exit properly
- fix build without --prefix
- useless fooling with Mono bindings
- useless fooling with gcj bindings
- fix srcdir != builddir
- fix various compiler warnings and other issues
- add get/set data to DBusMessage
- fix headers for C++
- OS X build fixes
- abstract domain sockets support (Linux only)
- add dbus-cleanup-sockets utility for people
  not using linux
- be consistent about defaulting to --session/--system 
  with command line tools
- merge in policies from included config files
- fix build on non-x86
- docs updates
- lots of other bugfixes

D-BUS 0.11
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- add --enable-docs to turn off/on the docbook stuff
  (doesn't cover doxygen stuff yet)
- make people define DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
  and read warning in README so they don't 
  expect the API to be frozen already
- rename .pc files to "dbus-1.pc" instead of 
  "dbus-1.0.pc" etc. - this will require changing 
  pkg-config invocations
- some docs cleanups
- add man pages for all executables
- allow send to/from bus driver in the default system.conf
- fix user lookup bug
- implement dbus-launch to launch the session message bus
- fix some thread deadlocks
- some performance profiling/optimization
- add dbus_bus_activate_service() function
- fix some minor bugs here and there
- install Red Hat initscript in the right place

D-BUS 0.10
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- reversed order of args to dbus_message_new()
- renamed dbus_message_name_is() and some other
  functions
- change DBusWatch to have dbus_watch_handle() 
  similar to dbus_timeout_handle(), drop 
  connection/server-specific handle routines
- change message serials to be unsigned
- implemented <allow>/<deny>/<limit> features for 
  config file; system bus now has a deny-all policy 
  by default.
- system.conf has <includedir>system.d</includedir>
  so packages can install additions to the default 
  policy to <allow> the messages they need. e.g.
  CUPS might install a cups.conf - see 
  test/data/valid-config-files/system.d/test.conf 
  for an example.
- add timeouts for authentication, activation
- add glib-style "checks" on public API, enable 
  those by default, disable assertions by default
- add GMainContext argument to GLib setup functions, 
  can be NULL for default context. Needed for threads.
- add 64-bit integer type
- validate type of standard message header fields
- consider messages in the org.freedesktop.Local
  namespace to be invalid (to avoid fake disconnect 
  messages for example)
- fix assorted memory leaks and other bugs in 
  the SHA-1 auth mechanism
- cache user database information (groups user is 
  in, etc.) helps a lot with NIS
- always store uid_t, pid_t, gid_t in "ulong" 
  rather than "int"
- implement config file settings for which 
  users can connect
- SHA-1 unit test
- dbus-send, dbus-monitor command line utilities
- fixed lots of misc crashes and other bugs

D-BUS 0.9
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- implemented a test case for service activation,
  and fixed many bugs exposed by that
- implemented recursive argument marshaling/demarshaling 
  for messages, allowing multidimensional arrays
- fixed up integration of message dispatch with 
  main loop by adding a callback on change of 
  dispatch status
- add a pidfile feature to daemon
- some build fixes
- clean up unix domain sockets on exit
- add --print-address and the ability 
  to create a random server address 
  in a temporary directory

D-BUS 0.8
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- fix dumb bug in 0.7

D-BUS 0.7
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- implement configuration file used to control bus characteristics
- implement daemon mode, changing user ID, and other system
  bus features
- add init scripts for systemwide bus
- add "make check-coverage" target to check test coverage
- more test suite additions
- many, many bugfixes
- many API changes/fixes

D-BUS 0.6
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- Vastly improved bus daemon test suite
- Lots of misc. bugfixes and memory leak fixes
- Support for marshalling key/value data
- Activation improvements.

D-BUS 0.5
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- Specification updates
- port to OS X and other BSD variants
- port to Solaris
- Partial work on cookie-based authentication
- Thread safety fixes
- Lots of misc. bugfixes
- Support for more array types
- Add data slots to DBusServer
- DBusString security audit fixes
- Fix for systems (or valgrind) with unaligned malloc blocks

D-BUS 0.4
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- Preliminary activation support.
- Better authentication test suite
- Bus test program
- Specification updates
- Thread safety
- Bug fixes

D-BUS 0.3
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 - Preliminary limitations 
 - Message sending works
 - Bus client
 - Array marshalling/demarshalling
 - Services
 - Better OOM handling in the bus
 - In-proc debug transport
 - Transport/server address support

D-BUS 0.2
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 - Include test code in the tarball.

D-BUS 0.1
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 - Initial release.