1 D-Bus 1.5.2 (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)
25 • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt
26 (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie)
28 D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11)
31 The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant
32 flying shark" release.
34 • D-Bus Specification v0.16
35 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules
36 (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie)
37 · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings,
38 and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson)
39 • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
41 • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
43 • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support
44 (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie)
45 • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie)
46 • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on
47 paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls
48 to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
50 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
53 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
55 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
56 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
57 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
59 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
60 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
61 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
62 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
63 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
64 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
65 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
66 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
67 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
68 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
69 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
70 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
71 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
72 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
73 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
75 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
77 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
78 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
80 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
83 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
85 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
86 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
88 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
91 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
92 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
93 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
94 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
95 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
96 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
97 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
98 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
99 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
100 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
101 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
102 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
103 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
104 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
105 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
106 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
107 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
108 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
109 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
111 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
113 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
114 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
115 • Fix syslog string processing
117 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
118 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
120 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
122 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
124 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
126 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
129 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
130 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
131 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
132 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
134 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
135 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
138 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
142 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
144 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
145 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
146 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
148 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
150 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
151 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
152 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
153 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
154 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
155 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
156 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon