-D-BUS 0.62 (12 June 2006)
+D-Bus 1.5.0 (UNRELEASED)
==
-- Doc fixes
-- Added support for all data-types for the dbus tools
-- Fixed eavesdropping on method calls (dbus-monitor)
-- Fixed silent dropping of method calls with interface=NULL
-- Fixed console ownership problems in Solaris
-- Fixed installation of dbus-signature.h and #include it in dbus/dbus.h
-- Flush the user database cache on config reload
-- GLib bindings:
- - Fix memory leaks
- - Fix properties in DBusGProxy so that they can be given in any
- order
- - Added lots of assertions to ensure correct use
- - Remove duplicated code
- - Fix static string pointer uses in GPtrArray-based collections
-- Python bindings:
- - Remove reference to sys/cdefs.h
-- Qt4 bindings:
- - Code reorganized
- - Added the dbusidl2cpp, dbuscpp2xml and dbus tools
- - Added example programs (ping-pong, complex ping-pong, listnames, chat)
- - Updated selftests
- - Fixed compilation and .moc- and .ui-file processing and cleaning
- - Made central classes derive from QObject
- - Enhance error reporting
- - Many bugfixes
-- Mono bindings:
- - Minor bugfixes
-D-BUS 0.61 (24 Febuary 2006)
-==
-- Documentation all around
-- dbus-launch now produces correct sh and csh syntax
-- Nested arrays now work correctly
-- GLib bindings:
- - Inheriting from DBusGProxy is now possible
- - GPtrArrays can now be marshalled
- - org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ClientCSymbol annotation added
- - Openning connections to arbitrary addresses now supported
-- Python bindings:
- - sender_keyword and path_keyword keywords added to signal listener API
- - Byte types now demarshal to unsigned char
- - calling methods now do the correct thing
-- Qt bindings:
- - both Qt3 and Qt4 bindings can be built at the same time
- - Use the standard org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply annotation
- for the "async" calls instead of creating one for us.
-- Mono bindings:
- - 64bit arch fixes
-- Massive bug fixing all around
+ • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757,
+ Simon McVittie)
+ • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261,
+ Roberto Guido)
+ • Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
+ (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
-D-BUS 0.60 (30 November 2005)
+D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
==
-- major ABI/API changes - sonames changed
-- RequestName queuing behavior has changed (refer to dbus-specification)
- - DBUS_NAME_FLAG_PROHIBIT_REPLACEMENT has been removed and
- DBUS_NAME_FLAG_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT has been added to the flags
-- signals emitted by the bus now show up in the introspect data
-- auth EXTERNAL now supported on BSD varients
-- ReleaseName method added to the bus to allow a service
- to remove itself as owner of a bus name
-- dbus_connection_read_write added for getting messages off the bus
- in the absence of a mainloop
-- Qt4 bindings added and the Qt3 bindings have been depricated
-- python bindings:
- - marshal using introspect data if available
- - better exception handling and propigation
- - private connections are now supported
- - UTF-8 cleanups
- - out_signature added to method decorators for specifying
- how the return values should be marshaled
- - sender_keyword added to method decorators for specifying
- and argument to provide the unique name of the method caller
- - async_callbacks added to method decorators
- - multiple inheritance of classes now supported
-- GLib bindings:
- - respect NoReply annotations
- - dbus_g_method_return_get_reply and dbus_g_method_return_send_reply
- added to the lowlevel code for use when the dbus-glib marshalling
- code is not adiquate
-- numerous bug fixes all around
-
-D-BUS 0.50 (06 September 2005)
-===
-This is a minor release from 0.36.2. The series number has changed
-not because of any technical reasons but as an indication that we
-are moving closer to 1.0. It is hoped that this will be the last
-series to see major changes, most of which will be isolated to the
-GLib and Python bindings, as we transition to concentrate more on
-bug busting and code auditing.
-
-- D-Bus builds on the Cygwin platform
-- Makefile cleanups
-- Various bug fixes
-- Optimization of the dbus object tree
-- Memleaks and GIL crasher bugs have been fixed in the Python bindings
-
-D-BUS 0.36.2 (29 August 2005)
-===
-- Security: Restrict other users from connecting to another users
- session bus
-
-D-BUS 0.36.1 (24 August 2005)
-===
-- Python Bindings:
- - fixed to work with hal-device-manager
- - For 64bit builds everything is installed to lib64/python2.4/
- since Python can't handle multilib
-
-D-BUS 0.36 (23 August 2005)
-===
-- 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)
-===
-- 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)
-===
-- 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)
-===
-- --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)
-===
-- 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)
-===
-
-- 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)
-===
-
-- 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)
-===
-
-- 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)
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-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
-===
+ • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
+ which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
-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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- fix dumb bug in 0.7
-
-D-BUS 0.7
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-- 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
-===
-
-- 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
-===
-
-- Preliminary activation support.
-- Better authentication test suite
-- Bus test program
-- Specification updates
-- Thread safety
-- Bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.3
-===
+D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
+==
- - 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
+ • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
+ should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
+ • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
+ which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
+ also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
+ • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
+ • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
+ • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
+ (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
+ • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
+ fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
+ • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
+ • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
+ • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
+ • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
+ • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
+ • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
+ fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
+ • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
+ Debian #230231)
+ • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
+ fd.o #34292)
+ • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
+ (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
+ • Fix syslog string processing
+ • Ignore -Waddress
+ • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
+ with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
+ • Windows:
+ · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
+ • OpenBSD:
+ · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
+ • Solaris:
+ · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
+
+D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
+==
-D-BUS 0.2
-===
+ • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
+ crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
+ only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
+ nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
+ issue.
+ • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
+ • Windows autolaunch improvements.
+ • Various bug fixes.
- - Include test code in the tarball.
+D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
+==
+ - systemd hookup
-D-BUS 0.1
-===
+D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
+==
+ - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
+ - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
+ - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
- - Initial release.
+D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
+==
+ - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
+ - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
+ - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
+ (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
+ - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
+ and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
+ - feature negotiation in the bus daemon