1 D-BUS 0.62 (12 June 2006)
4 - Added support for all data-types for the dbus tools
5 - Fixed eavesdropping on method calls (dbus-monitor)
6 - Fixed silent dropping of method calls with interface=NULL
7 - Fixed console ownership problems in Solaris
8 - Fixed installation of dbus-signature.h and #include it in dbus/dbus.h
9 - Flush the user database cache on config reload
12 - Fix properties in DBusGProxy so that they can be given in any
14 - Added lots of assertions to ensure correct use
15 - Remove duplicated code
16 - Fix static string pointer uses in GPtrArray-based collections
18 - Remove reference to sys/cdefs.h
21 - Added the dbusidl2cpp, dbuscpp2xml and dbus tools
22 - Added example programs (ping-pong, complex ping-pong, listnames, chat)
24 - Fixed compilation and .moc- and .ui-file processing and cleaning
25 - Made central classes derive from QObject
26 - Enhance error reporting
31 D-BUS 0.61 (24 Febuary 2006)
33 - Documentation all around
34 - dbus-launch now produces correct sh and csh syntax
35 - Nested arrays now work correctly
37 - Inheriting from DBusGProxy is now possible
38 - GPtrArrays can now be marshalled
39 - org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ClientCSymbol annotation added
40 - Openning connections to arbitrary addresses now supported
42 - sender_keyword and path_keyword keywords added to signal listener API
43 - Byte types now demarshal to unsigned char
44 - calling methods now do the correct thing
46 - both Qt3 and Qt4 bindings can be built at the same time
47 - Use the standard org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply annotation
48 for the "async" calls instead of creating one for us.
51 - Massive bug fixing all around
53 D-BUS 0.60 (30 November 2005)
56 - major ABI/API changes - sonames changed
57 - RequestName queuing behavior has changed (refer to dbus-specification)
58 - DBUS_NAME_FLAG_PROHIBIT_REPLACEMENT has been removed and
59 DBUS_NAME_FLAG_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT has been added to the flags
60 - signals emitted by the bus now show up in the introspect data
61 - auth EXTERNAL now supported on BSD varients
62 - ReleaseName method added to the bus to allow a service
63 to remove itself as owner of a bus name
64 - dbus_connection_read_write added for getting messages off the bus
65 in the absence of a mainloop
66 - Qt4 bindings added and the Qt3 bindings have been depricated
68 - marshal using introspect data if available
69 - better exception handling and propigation
70 - private connections are now supported
72 - out_signature added to method decorators for specifying
73 how the return values should be marshaled
74 - sender_keyword added to method decorators for specifying
75 and argument to provide the unique name of the method caller
76 - async_callbacks added to method decorators
77 - multiple inheritance of classes now supported
79 - respect NoReply annotations
80 - dbus_g_method_return_get_reply and dbus_g_method_return_send_reply
81 added to the lowlevel code for use when the dbus-glib marshalling
83 - numerous bug fixes all around
85 D-BUS 0.50 (06 September 2005)
87 This is a minor release from 0.36.2. The series number has changed
88 not because of any technical reasons but as an indication that we
89 are moving closer to 1.0. It is hoped that this will be the last
90 series to see major changes, most of which will be isolated to the
91 GLib and Python bindings, as we transition to concentrate more on
92 bug busting and code auditing.
94 - D-Bus builds on the Cygwin platform
97 - Optimization of the dbus object tree
98 - Memleaks and GIL crasher bugs have been fixed in the Python bindings
100 D-BUS 0.36.2 (29 August 2005)
102 - Security: Restrict other users from connecting to another users
105 D-BUS 0.36.1 (24 August 2005)
108 - fixed to work with hal-device-manager
109 - For 64bit builds everything is installed to lib64/python2.4/
110 since Python can't handle multilib
112 D-BUS 0.36 (23 August 2005)
114 - Maximum sized of cached messages have been reduced to 10K
115 - Match rules now allow matching on arguments inside the message
116 - introspect.xsl XSLT style sheet added for formatting introspection
117 data into XHTML for analysis
119 - now have working type objects for explicit
121 - Variant type has been added
122 - Dictionaries, Variants and Arrays can all be passed the signiture or
123 type(s) of their children
124 - the optional timeout= keyword has been added when making method calls
125 - match on args has been implemented
126 - a .pth file has been added for dealing with libraries and python files
127 being in different directories such as in 64bit installs
130 - deeply recursive types now supported
131 - many symbols are no longer exported as part of the public API
132 - various memleak and other bug fixes
134 D-BUS 0.35.2 (17 July 2005)
136 - Rename Unix Security Context to SELinux Security Context in API
137 - Fixed more dist errors that distcheck didn't pick up on
138 - Fixed various bugs in the python bindings that prevented them from working
140 D-BUS 0.35.1 (16 July 2005)
142 - Fixed dist error where python/dbus_bindings.pxd was being shipped
143 instead of dbus_bindings.pxd.in
144 - Use this instead of the 0.35 tarball
146 D-BUS 0.35 (15 July 2005)
148 - --with-dbus-user added to the configure scripts for configuring the
149 user the system bus runs on
150 - --with-console-auth-dir added to configure scripts for configuring the
151 directory to look in for console user locks
152 - service files for auto-starting D-Bus services now has the ability to pass
153 in command line arguments to the executable
154 - Huge auto-start bug squashed which caused some services not to start when
155 requested in rapid succession
156 - SE-Linux security contexts can now be appended to messages for inspection
157 by services that enforce their own security policies
158 - Colin says the GLib binding are ready for general consumption
160 - New GLib example code
161 - Python bindings are now version (0,42,0)
162 - Python bindings API has changed on the service side
163 - dbus.service has been split out as a seperate module
164 - dbus.service.Service is renamed to dbus.service.BusName
165 - dbus.service.Object has swapped the bus_name and object_path constructor
166 parameters to make it easier to do inheritance over the bus
167 - dbus.glib has been seperated out in order to lessen the dependency on glib
168 and to allow other mainloops to be integrated with the bindings including
169 a planned generic mainloop for non-gui apps.
170 - Python bindings now aquire the GIL when calling back into the python
171 interpreter. Fixes crashes when using threading and other random segfaults.
172 - New Python tutorial
173 - Numerous D-Bus bug fixes all around
175 D-BUS 0.34 (15 June 2005)
177 - dbus_connection_disconnect is deprecated in favor of dbus_connection_close
178 - The bus can now use D_NOTIFY (if available) to check when configuration files
179 have changed and reload them
180 - New dbus_message_has_path/member/interface API added
181 - The Ping message from the org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer interface is now handled
182 - Complete glib bindings overhaul (and are still under construction)
183 - Tutorial now has an updated GLib section
184 - GLib bindings can now send/receive hash tables, arrays and other complex types
185 - Python bindings overhaul (most public facing API's done)
186 - Python bindings have been split up into separate files
187 - Python added new type classes for hinting to the marshaler what type
188 to send over the wire
189 - Python bindings now have decorators for specifying exported methods and signals
192 D-BUS 0.33 (25 Apr 2005)
195 - downgrade requirement from GTK+-2.6 to 2.4 for building gtk components
196 - python binding API's have been overhalled to be more "pythonic" and cleaner
197 - python bindings now export dbus.version which is set to (0,40,0)
198 - python bindings now implement the org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable interface
199 - python binding match rules are now more flexable
200 - make check has been fixed
201 - many, many major bug fixes
203 D-BUS 0.32 (29 Mar 2005)
206 - mono bindings now compiles correctly
207 - mono binding cleanups
208 - glib bindings generates wrappers for bus methods in dbus-glib-bindings.h
209 - glib binding cleanus
210 - users and groups can now be specified by UID and GID in config files
211 - numerous memory leak fixes
212 - various other fixes
214 D-BUS 0.31 (07 Mar 2005)
217 - land the new message args API and recursive type system
218 - add docs and fixed Doxygen warnings throught source
219 - split out some functions not needed in libdbus to *-util.c source files
220 - take out type convienience functions
221 - libdbus now back below 150K
222 - booleans are now 32-bit instead of 8-bit
223 - specification updated
224 - grand renaming to strip out the use of "service"
225 just say "name" instead (or "bus name" when ambiguous)
226 - rename dbus-daemon-1 to dbus-daemon throughout
227 - rename activation to auto-start
228 - auto-start on by default now
229 - note that libdbus is the low-level API
230 - python bindings updated to the new API
231 - mono bindings updated to the new API
233 - dictionaries are now ARRAYS of DICT_ENTRY
234 - dbus-glib-tool renamed to dbus-binding-tool
235 - massive rewrite of the glib bindings
236 - saner names for the dbus interface, object path and service defines
237 - new functions for handling type signitures
238 - bump sonames for libdbus and libdbus-glib
239 - various small fixes
241 D-BUS 0.23 (11 Jan 2005)
244 - add setgroups() to drop supplementary groups
245 - updated SELinux support
246 - add an "at console" security policy
247 - fix a bug where org.freedesktop.DBus wasn't recognized as an existing
249 - error out if --enable-mono is explicitly set and mono libs can't be found
250 - set the max_match_rules_per_connection limit from the config file.
251 - removed dbus_bug_get_with_g_main since it's been replaced by
253 - fix fd leaks in socket code
254 - lots and lots of mono binding updates, including fixes to make it
255 compatible with Mono 1.1.3
256 - added --nofork option to override config file setting at runtime
257 - added support for int64 and uint64 to the python bindings
258 - lots of python binding updates
259 - config file DTD updates
260 - use SerivceOwnerChanges signal instead of ServiceCreated and
262 - fixes to the authentication code
263 - new init script for Slackware
264 - print out the pid even when --fork is passed
265 - increase preallocation sizes in DBusMessage to heavily reduce
267 - lots of performance enhancements
268 - lots more small bug fixes
273 - add --reply-timeout to dbus-send
275 - fix Solaris/Forte build
276 - switch to AFL 2.1 rather than 2.0 to address patent termination clause
278 - add SELinux support
279 - mostly repair libxml backend for config parser, still doesn't
280 pass out of memory tests
281 - fix distcheck to include language bindings
282 - add GetConnectionUnixUser method on bus driver
283 - also for UnixProcessID
284 - lots of Python, Mono, other binding fixes
285 - change GLib bindings to not include dbus/dbus.h (fully encapsulate libdbus)
286 - pass paths as strings, not arrays of string
287 - add message signature header field
288 - cleanups to marshaling code
289 - clean up authentication code
290 - reload conf files on SIGHUP
291 - rename SERVICE/SENDER_SERVICE to DESTINATION/SENDER
292 - fix circular conf file inclusion
294 - tons of other small bugfixes
299 - implement "auto activation" flag on messages, so the destination
300 service can be launched automatically
301 - fix a bug in custom type marshaling
302 - optimize case where multiple apps activate the same service
303 (avoid "thundering herd")
304 - add dynamic service file discovery/reloading
305 - fix a busy loop when blocking for a reply
306 - fix a 64-bit crash involving varargs
307 - fix a bus crash when processing an AcquireService
308 - allow appending TYPE_BYTE via append_args_valist
309 - fix dicts-inside-dicts
310 - enhancements to Python and Qt bindings
315 This release lands some very large API changes and numerous bugfixes.
316 The list of changes is too large to fully document here; please refer
317 to the documentation, and message-bus-list archives.
322 This is probably the last release before landing the large API changes
323 on the "dbus-object-names" branch.
325 - fix system bus to always use filesystem socket; anyone
326 can create any abstract socket, which isn't secure
327 since if you can crash the system bus you'd be able
329 - add DTD for configuration file
330 - improve specification a bit
335 - fix "service messagebus status" on Red Hat
336 - fix demarshaling of DBUS_TYPE_NAMED
337 - fix "eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session`" to exit properly
338 - fix build without --prefix
339 - useless fooling with Mono bindings
340 - useless fooling with gcj bindings
341 - fix srcdir != builddir
342 - fix various compiler warnings and other issues
343 - add get/set data to DBusMessage
344 - fix headers for C++
346 - abstract domain sockets support (Linux only)
347 - add dbus-cleanup-sockets utility for people
349 - be consistent about defaulting to --session/--system
350 with command line tools
351 - merge in policies from included config files
352 - fix build on non-x86
354 - lots of other bugfixes
359 - add --enable-docs to turn off/on the docbook stuff
360 (doesn't cover doxygen stuff yet)
361 - make people define DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
362 and read warning in README so they don't
363 expect the API to be frozen already
364 - rename .pc files to "dbus-1.pc" instead of
365 "dbus-1.0.pc" etc. - this will require changing
366 pkg-config invocations
368 - add man pages for all executables
369 - allow send to/from bus driver in the default system.conf
370 - fix user lookup bug
371 - implement dbus-launch to launch the session message bus
372 - fix some thread deadlocks
373 - some performance profiling/optimization
374 - add dbus_bus_activate_service() function
375 - fix some minor bugs here and there
376 - install Red Hat initscript in the right place
381 - reversed order of args to dbus_message_new()
382 - renamed dbus_message_name_is() and some other
384 - change DBusWatch to have dbus_watch_handle()
385 similar to dbus_timeout_handle(), drop
386 connection/server-specific handle routines
387 - change message serials to be unsigned
388 - implemented <allow>/<deny>/<limit> features for
389 config file; system bus now has a deny-all policy
391 - system.conf has <includedir>system.d</includedir>
392 so packages can install additions to the default
393 policy to <allow> the messages they need. e.g.
394 CUPS might install a cups.conf - see
395 test/data/valid-config-files/system.d/test.conf
397 - add timeouts for authentication, activation
398 - add glib-style "checks" on public API, enable
399 those by default, disable assertions by default
400 - add GMainContext argument to GLib setup functions,
401 can be NULL for default context. Needed for threads.
402 - add 64-bit integer type
403 - validate type of standard message header fields
404 - consider messages in the org.freedesktop.Local
405 namespace to be invalid (to avoid fake disconnect
406 messages for example)
407 - fix assorted memory leaks and other bugs in
408 the SHA-1 auth mechanism
409 - cache user database information (groups user is
410 in, etc.) helps a lot with NIS
411 - always store uid_t, pid_t, gid_t in "ulong"
413 - implement config file settings for which
416 - dbus-send, dbus-monitor command line utilities
417 - fixed lots of misc crashes and other bugs
422 - implemented a test case for service activation,
423 and fixed many bugs exposed by that
424 - implemented recursive argument marshaling/demarshaling
425 for messages, allowing multidimensional arrays
426 - fixed up integration of message dispatch with
427 main loop by adding a callback on change of
429 - add a pidfile feature to daemon
431 - clean up unix domain sockets on exit
432 - add --print-address and the ability
433 to create a random server address
434 in a temporary directory
439 - fix dumb bug in 0.7
444 - implement configuration file used to control bus characteristics
445 - implement daemon mode, changing user ID, and other system
447 - add init scripts for systemwide bus
448 - add "make check-coverage" target to check test coverage
449 - more test suite additions
450 - many, many bugfixes
451 - many API changes/fixes
455 - Vastly improved bus daemon test suite
456 - Lots of misc. bugfixes and memory leak fixes
457 - Support for marshalling key/value data
458 - Activation improvements.
463 - Specification updates
464 - port to OS X and other BSD variants
466 - Partial work on cookie-based authentication
467 - Thread safety fixes
468 - Lots of misc. bugfixes
469 - Support for more array types
470 - Add data slots to DBusServer
471 - DBusString security audit fixes
472 - Fix for systems (or valgrind) with unaligned malloc blocks
477 - Preliminary activation support.
478 - Better authentication test suite
480 - Specification updates
487 - Preliminary limitations
488 - Message sending works
490 - Array marshalling/demarshalling
492 - Better OOM handling in the bus
493 - In-proc debug transport
494 - Transport/server address support
499 - Include test code in the tarball.