3 - Due to issues putting the re-licensing effort on hold indefinitely, it has
4 been decided to move to 1.2.x versioning scheme. Being that 1.1.20 is
5 considered to also be 1.2.0 and this being the second release in the 1.2.x
6 stable series we have versioned this release 1.2.1. This release contains a
7 number of bug fixes identified after 1.1.20.
8 - compiles under some older versions of glibc
9 - compiles without X support once again
10 - fix stuck server grab if dbus-launch is run in an existing D-Bus X session
11 - various Mac OSX build fixes added
12 - don't use the broken poll call on Mac OSX
13 - better checks for linker flag support should allow D-Bus to link under
15 - exit_on_disconnect is set after the connection registers with a bus so we
16 don't exit if we get a disconnect during the handshake
17 - dicts now work correctly with dbus-send
18 - inotify backend is now less aggressive
19 - pending calls expire correctly
20 - memleak of uuid when the bus is autolaunched fixed
22 D-Bus 1.1.20 - "Conisten Water" (27 Febuary)
25 - This is the next generation supported STABLE release of D-Bus. For all
26 intents and purposes this is the 1.2.0 release WITHOUT the planned X11/MIT
27 license change due to a couple of license holders who have yet to respond.
28 For the most part this license change is being persued to simplify licensing
29 issues and fix a couple of licensing courner cases. When this happens D-Bus
30 will be released under the 1.2.0 version.
32 - D-Bus 1.0.x effectively goes into security fix mode and will only be
33 updated for major issues.
35 - Fixed CVE-2008-0595 - security policy of the type <allow send_interface=
36 "some.interface.WithMethods"/> work as an implicit allow for
37 messages sent without an interface bypassing the default deny rules and
38 potentially allowing restricted methods exported on the bus to be executed
39 by unauthorized users.
41 - Fixes dbus-launch so the session bus goes away so does D-Bus
43 - Builds against latest gcc/glibc changes
45 - Correctly unref connections without guids during shutdown
47 - About the name: Submitted by Greg K Nicholson, Conisten Water is a lake in
48 Cumbria, England where several water speed records have been broken. Between
49 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in Bluebird K7, a hydroplane.
50 (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_Water#Waterspeed_record)
52 D-Bus 1.1.4 - 1.2.0RC2 (17 January 2007)
54 - Fixes inotify support
56 D-Bus 1.1.3 - 1.2.0RC1 (15 January 2007)
59 - This release is intended to be Release Candidate 1 of major release
60 D-Bus 1.2.0. If nothing is found to be wrong with this release it
61 will become 1.2.0 within a week. If we need to make major changes
62 we will release an RC2 and start the process over again.
64 - This is a development release, so API's may still change if problems
65 are found (though this is extreamly unlikely).
67 - DTD for the introspection format is fixed and uploaded to the servers
69 - Sources now reside in a git repository at
70 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=dbus/dbus.git;a=summary
72 - Argument path matching of the type arg0path='/aa/bb/' is now supported
73 (see the specification for more information)
75 - New error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ObjectPathInUse added
77 - Autolaunched busses now save their parameters in X11 if possible making them
78 behave closer to busses launched through the normal mechanisms
80 - inotify is now the default backend for watching configuration file changes
82 - More support for the AIX platform has been added
84 - Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements
86 D-Bus 1.1.2 (27 July 2007)
89 - This release is intended to be a feature complete beta for stable
90 release 1.2.0, please test it. 1.2.0 will follow pretty soon if no
91 major problems are found. We'll do more betas if significant
94 - This is a development release, so API's may still change if problems
95 are found (though we will try hard not to).
97 - The system bus now supports starting services on demand. This uses a
98 setuid helper program because system bus daemon runs as a nobody
99 user, while services it launches may need to run as a different
102 ***Extra eyes auditing the setuid helper are encouraged and would be
103 timely right now, before 1.2.0***
105 A design doc is available in doc/system-activation.txt
107 - The TCP address format has been enhanced, such that TCP may be
108 actually usable. The dbus-daemon man page describes the new
109 elements in the address format. 1.1.1 had added an all_interfaces
110 flag to the format, which has been removed in favor of a cleaner
113 - Some thread-related bugs have been fixed, these are important fixes
114 if you are using multiple threads with libdbus, and not important
118 D-Bus 1.1.1 (18 June 2007)
120 - This is a development release, unless you need specific
121 functionality please use the stable releases as API's may change
122 (though we will try hard not to)
123 - The bus daemon now generates a globally-unique ID for itself, which is available
124 using the convenience function dbus_bus_get_id(). Use this as a unique ID
125 for a user's session, for example.
126 - dbus_server_get_id(), dbus_connection_get_server_id() now available to access
127 the unique ID of a particular address
128 - dbus_watch_get_fd() deprecated since it had unclear cross-platform semantics.
129 dbus_watch_get_unix_fd() and dbus_watch_get_socket() replace it.
130 - support ANONYMOUS mechanism for authentication, which allows a client to
131 authenticate as nobody in particular
132 - add API dbus_connection_set_allow_anonymous() which will allow the message
133 stream to begin if the client auths as anonymous (otherwise, the client
134 will be dropped unless they auth as a user).
135 - the ANONYMOUS support means you can now use D-Bus (without a bus daemon) as
136 a protocol for a network service provided to anonymous Internet or LAN
138 - many internal changes to better support the Windows port, though the
139 port is still not complete in this release
140 - some improved documentation and return_if_fail checks
141 - some small bug fixes
143 D-Bus 1.1.0 (25 May 2007)
145 - first release in the development series, unless you need specific
146 functionality please use the stable releases as API's may change
147 (though we will try hard not to)
148 - better eavesdropping support now picks up reply messages for debugging
149 - .pc file now lists the directory the daemon is installed into (daemondir)
150 - GetAll call added to the properties interface
151 - support for message serialization added for use with external transports like