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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-11-16 15:04:52 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2018-11-16 15:04:52 +0000
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Update NEWS
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ Bugzilla bugs (indicated by "fd.o #nnn") to Gitlab issues ("dbus#nnn")
and merge requests ("dbus!nnn"). See README and CONTRIBUTING.md for
more details.
+Dependencies:
+
+• dbus now requires at least a basic level of support for C99 variadic
+ macros, as implemented in gcc >= 3, all versions of Clang, and
+ MSVC >= 2005. In practice this requirement has existed since version
+ 1.9.2, but it is now official.
+
Enhancements:
• Rewrite CONTRIBUTING.md to reflect the current setup
@@ -18,8 +25,22 @@ Enhancements:
• Reference the freedesktop.org Code of Conduct (Simon McVittie)
+• Build an implementation of dbus-run-session for Windows
+ (dbus#135, dbus!22; Ralf Habacker)
+
+• On Linux with SELinux, use avc_open() and monitor the AVC netlink fd
+ in the main event loop, instead of using the deprecated avc_init()
+ and a thread (dbus#134, dbus!31; Laurent Bigonville)
+
+• On Linux with SELinux, use the SELINUX_CB_POLICYRELOAD callback
+ to detect policy reloads, instead of monitoring the access vector
+ cache with AVC_CALLBACK_RESET
+ (dbus#134, dbus!31; Laurent Bigonville)
+
+• Avoid double slashes in pkg-config paths (dbus!30, Ralf Habacker)
+
• Improve test coverage and clean up dead code
- (fd.o #107739, Simon McVittie)
+ (fd.o #107739, dbus#222; Simon McVittie)
• Allow --enable-relocation in combination with absolute paths for
--exec-prefix, --libdir (fd.o #107662, Simon McVittie)
@@ -42,12 +63,29 @@ Fixes:
· backslash escapes are not interpreted in section/group names
(dbus#208; David King, Simon McVittie)
+• Always use select()-based poll() emulation on Darwin-based OSs
+ (macOS, etc.) and on Interix, similar to what libcurl does
+ (dbus#232, dbus!19; Simon McVittie)
+
• Fix some small O(1) memory leaks (fd.o #107320, Simon McVittie)
+• Extend a test timeout to avoid spurious failures in CI
+ (dbus!26, Simon McVittie)
+
• Fix build warnings with recent gcc (dbus#208, dbus#225; David King)
• Fix build warnings without libX11 (dbus#228, Simon McVittie)
+• Fix whitespace and error behaviour for _dbus_command_from_pid()
+ (dbus#222, dbus!28; Simon McVittie)
+
+• When built with CMake, install dbus-daemon-launch-helper to
+ ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR}, analogous to ${libexecdir} in
+ Autotools (dbus!9, Simon McVittie)
+
+• When built with CMake and disabling tests, still install
+ dbus-daemon-launch-helper (dbus!9, Simon McVittie)
+
Tests and CI:
• Add Travis-CI builds for 64-bit Windows using mingw-w64