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Known limitation: - because the socket is opened before forking, the process will still be - logged as if it had dbus-daemon's process ID and user ID. - (fd.o #68559, Chengwei Yang) - -• Document more configuration elements in dbus-daemon(1) - (fd.o #69125, Chengwei Yang) - -Fixes: - -• Don't leak string arrays or fds if dbus_message_iter_get_args_valist() - unpacks them and then encounters an error (fd.o #21259, Chengwei Yang) - -• If compiled with libaudit, retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE so we can write - disallowed method calls to the audit log, fixing a regression in 1.7.6 - (fd.o #49062, Colin Walters) - -• path_namespace='/' in match rules incorrectly matched nothing; it - now matches everything. (fd.o #70799, Simon McVittie) - -D-Bus 1.7.6 (2013-10-09) -== - -The “CSI Shrewsbury” release. - -Build-time configuration changes: - -• Directory change notification via dnotify on Linux is no longer - supported; it hadn't compiled successfully since 2010 in any case. - If you don't have inotify (Linux) or kqueue (*BSD), you will need - to send SIGHUP to the dbus-daemon when its configuration changes. - (fd.o #33001, Chengwei Yang) - -• Compiling with --disable-userdb-cache is no longer supported; - it didn't work since at least 2008, and would lead to an extremely - slow dbus-daemon even it worked. (fd.o #15589, #17133, #66947; - Chengwei Yang) - -• The DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS CMake option didn't actually disable most - assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent - with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang) - -• --with-valgrind=auto enables Valgrind instrumentation if and only if - valgrind headers are available. The default is still --with-valgrind=no. - (fd.o #56925, Simon McVittie) - -Dependencies: - -• Platforms with no 64-bit integer type are no longer supported. - (fd.o #65429, Simon McVittie) - -• GNU make is now (documented to be) required. (fd.o #48277, Simon McVittie) - -• Full test coverage no longer requires dbus-glib, although the tests do not - exercise the shared library (only a static copy) if dbus-glib is missing. - (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) - -Enhancements: - -• D-Bus Specification 0.22 - · Document GetAdtAuditSessionData() and - GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext() (fd.o #54445, Simon) - · Fix example .service file (fd.o #66481, Chengwei Yang) - · Don't claim D-Bus is "low-latency" (lower than what?), just - give factual statements about it supporting async use - (fd.o #65141, Justin Lee) - · Document the contents of .service files, and the fact that - system services' filenames are constrained - (fd.o #66608; Simon McVittie, Chengwei Yang) - -• Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if - dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with - older libdbus, library users should continue to call - dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so. - (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie) - -• Add GetConnectionCredentials() method (fd.o #54445, Simon) - -• New API: dbus_setenv(), a simple wrapper around setenv(). - Note that this is not thread-safe. (fd.o #39196, Simon) - -• Add dbus-send --peer=ADDRESS (connect to a given peer-to-peer connection, - like --address=ADDRESS in previous versions) and dbus-send --bus=ADDRESS - (connect to a given bus, like dbus-monitor --address=ADDRESS). - dbus-send --address still exists for backwards compatibility, - but is no longer documented. (fd.o #48816, Andrey Mazo) - -• Windows-specific: - · "dbus-daemon --nofork" is allowed on Windows again. (fd.o #68852, - Simon McVittie) - -Fixes: - -• Avoid an infinite busy-loop if a signal interrupts waitpid() - (fd.o #68945, Simon McVittie) - -• Clean up memory for parent nodes when objects are unexported - (fd.o #60176, Thomas Fitzsimmons) - -• Make dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages(x, FALSE) behave as - documented. Previously, it assumed its second parameter was TRUE. - (fd.o #69165, Chengwei Yang) - -• Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly - (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang) - -• Document <servicedir> search order correctly (fd.o #66994, Chengwei Yang) - -• Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4. - (fd.o #65923, Chengwei Yang) - -• If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free - an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang) - -• If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list - that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang) - -• fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang) - -• fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279, - Colin Walters) - -• Avoid calling function parameters "interface" since certain Windows headers - have a namespace-polluting macro of that name (fd.o #66493, Ivan Romanov) - -• Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang) - -• Various thread-safety improvements to static variables (fd.o #68610, - Simon McVittie) - -• Make "make -j check" work (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) - -• Fix a NULL pointer dereference on an unlikely error path - (fd.o #69327, Sviatoslav Chagaev) - -• Improve valgrind memory pool tracking (fd.o #69326, - Sviatoslav Chagaev) - -• Don't over-allocate memory in dbus-monitor (fd.o #69329, - Sviatoslav Chagaev) - -• dbus-monitor can monitor dbus-daemon < 1.5.6 again - (fd.o #66107, Chengwei Yang) - -• Unix-specific: - · If accept4() fails with EINVAL, as it can on older Linux kernels - with newer glibc, try accept() instead of going into a busy-loop. - (fd.o #69026, Chengwei Yang) - · If socket() or socketpair() fails with EINVAL or EPROTOTYPE, - for instance on Hurd or older Linux with a new glibc, try without - SOCK_CLOEXEC. (fd.o #69073; Pino Toscano, Chengwei Yang) - · Fix a file descriptor leak on an error code path. - (fd.o #69182, Sviatoslav Chagaev) - · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables - (fd.o #39196, Simon) - · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang) - · Don't fail the autolaunch test if there is no DISPLAY (fd.o #40352, Simon) - · Use dbus-launch from the builddir for testing, not the installed copy - (fd.o #37849, Chengwei Yang) - · Fix compilation if writev() is unavailable (fd.o #69409, - Vasiliy Balyasnyy) - · Remove broken support for LOCAL_CREDS credentials passing, and - document where each credential-passing scheme is used (fd.o #60340, - Simon McVittie) - · Make autogen.sh work on *BSD by not assuming GNU coreutils functionality - (fd.o #35881, #69787; Chengwei Yang) - · dbus-monitor: be portable to NetBSD (fd.o #69842, Chengwei Yang) - · dbus-launch: stop using non-portable asprintf (fd.o #37849, Simon) - · Improve error reporting from the setuid activation helper (fd.o #66728, - Chengwei Yang) - -• Windows-specific: - · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help' - (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker) - · Add support for looking up local TCPv4 clients' credentials on - Windows XP via the undocumented AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack - function (fd.o #66060, Ralf Habacker) - · Fix insufficient dependency-tracking (fd.o #68505, Simon McVittie) - · Don't include wspiapi.h, fixing a compiler warning (fd.o #68852, - Simon McVittie) - -• Internal changes: - · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing - conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang) - · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters) - · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker) - · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations - etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005, #66257, #69165, #69410, #70218; - Chengwei Yang, Vasiliy Balyasnyy) - -D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13) -== - -The “but is your thread-safety thread-safe?” release. - -Security fixes: - -• CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial - of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea. - (Simon) - -Dependencies: - -• The Windows version of libdbus now contains a C++ source file, used - to provide global initialization when the library is loaded. - gcc (mingw*) users should ensure that g++ is also installed. - -• The libxml2-based configuration reader (which hasn't worked for 2.5 years, - and was never the recommended option) has been removed. Expat is now a - hard dependency. - -Enhancements: - -• It should now be safe to call dbus_threads_init_default() from any thread, - at any time. Authors of loadable modules and plugins that use libdbus - should consider doing so during initialization. - (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie) - -• Improve dbus-send documentation and command-line parsing (fd.o #65424, - Chengwei Yang) - -Unix-specific: - · dbus-run-session: experimental new tool to start a temporary D-Bus - session, e.g. for regression tests or a text console, replacing - certain uses of dbus-launch which weren't really correct - (fd.o #39196, Simon) - -Other fixes: - -• In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value - (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang) - -• Unix-specific: - · Fix a crash similar to CVE-2013-2168 the first time we try to use syslog - on a platform not defining LOG_PERROR, such as Solaris or QNX. - This regressed in 1.7.0. (Simon) - · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before - systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang) - · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write() - (Chengwei Yang) - -• Windows-specific: - · Under cmake, install runtime libraries (DLLs) into bin/ instead of lib/ - so that Windows finds them (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) - -D-Bus 1.7.2 (2013-04-25) -== - -The “only partially opaque” release. - -Configuration changes: - -• On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the - session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default - limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are - reduced further, to 128. - -Enhancements: - -• D-Bus Specification 0.21 - · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF, - U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072, - Simon McVittie) - -Fixes: - -• Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot - (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk - (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams) - -• Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker, - Simon McVittie) - -• Unix-specific: - · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie) - · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication - (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen) - · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket - (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez) - · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on - Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen) - · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd - (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt) - · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for - meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker) - · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under - QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer) - -• Windows-specific: - · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials; - pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security - identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787, - Ralf Habacker) - -D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22) -== - -The "Disingenuous Assertions" release. - -This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6 -remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions -or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release. - -Build-time configuration changes: - -• The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer - supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and - --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you - usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are - usually correct. - -• Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer - supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and - DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead. - -• cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a - cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at - <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling>; or use Autotools - as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set - PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately. - -Requirements: - -• Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake). -• man2html is no longer used. - -Enhancements: - -• D-Bus Specification 0.20 - · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that - implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters) - · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie) - · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!) - -• The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating - the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake. - (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) - -Fixes: - -• In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system - bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon) - -• Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings - with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan) - -• Merge <servicehelper> from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560, - Krzysztof Konopko) - -• Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) - -• Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat - (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) - -• Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733, - Ralf Habacker) - -• Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie) - -• Unix-specific: - · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on - (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon) - · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927, - Michel HERMIER) - · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681) - · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer) - -• Windows-specific: - · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now - "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself - and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables - described above if you require a different autolaunch scope. - (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie) - · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker) - -• Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319, - Ralf Habacker) - -D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28) -== - -The "Fix one thing, break another" release. - -• Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening - work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202 - broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given - the difficulty of making this work without extensive - changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is - deferred. - -D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28) -== - -The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release. - -• CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202) - Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie, - Geoffrey Thomas, and others. -• Unix-specific: - · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin) - · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h - before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith) - -D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18) -== - -• Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with - a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console - (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner) - -• Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657, - Simon McVittie) - -• Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2; - fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie) - -• Windows-specific: - · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space - (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron) - -D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27) -== - -The "Ice Cabbage" release. - -• Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4 - (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie) - -• Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM - (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie) - -• Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from - Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with - --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default; - distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode. - (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie) - -• Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds, - fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie) - -• Unix-specific: - · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie) - -D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05) -== - -The “soul of this machine has improved” release. - -This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will -be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch. - -Summary of changes since 1.4.x: - -• New requirements - · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix - · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent) - -• D-Bus Specification v0.19 - -• New dbus-daemon features - · <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> rules allow the service to - own names like com.example.Service.Instance3 - · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies - · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd - · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules - · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true - -• New public API - · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.) - · dbus_type_is_valid() - · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type - -• Bug fixes - · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes - · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors - · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows - · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20 - -• Other major implementation changes - · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability - · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like - dbus_threads_init_default() instead - · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance - -• Developer features - · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind) - · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats) - · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests - and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1) - -Changes since 1.5.12: - -• Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 - spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen) - -• Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as - non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot) - -• Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove - an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds - (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie) - -D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27) -== - -The “Big Book of Science” release. - -• Add public API to validate various string types: - dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(), - dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8() - (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie) - -• Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their - own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie) - -• Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1) - (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie) - -• Add support for policy rules like <allow own_prefix="com.example.Service"/> - in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy) - -• Windows-specific: - · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again - on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie) - · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64 - (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey) - -D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21) -== - -The "fire in Delerium" release. - -On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base -and SUSv2) is now required. - -• D-Bus Specification 0.19: - · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names, - and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names, - and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie) - · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and - where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306; - Simon McVittie) - · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering) - -• Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation - as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it - takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie) - -• Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106, - Pavel Strashkin) - -• Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker): - · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027) - · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029) - · only create batch files on Windows - · fix option and cache syntax - · add help-options target - · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our - own version (fd.o #41033) - -• Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6 - (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie) - -• Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt) - -• Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on - its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel) - -• Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with - DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie) - -• Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used - by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting - unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie) - -• Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for - setups where the default configuration must include <pidfile/> to avoid - breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use - it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520, - Lennart Poettering) - -• Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug - libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind - (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie) - -• Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie) - -• Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz) - -• If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment, - abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks - into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048, - Simon McVittie) - -• Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048, - Simon McVittie) - -• Unix-specific: - · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has - been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex - (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie) - · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches - welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris - event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) - · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check - whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering) - · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie) - · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er) - · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck' - (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie) - · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch - helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation - attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules - (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie) - -• Windows-specific: - · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558; - Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker) - · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609, - Simon McVittie) - -D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21) -== - -The "cross-metering" release. - -In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all -of the bugfixes from 1.4.16. - -• Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds - (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie) - -• If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require - Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not, - and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing - (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie) - -• When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers - as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker) - -• Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie) - -• Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters) - -• Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636, - Simon McVittie) - -• Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker) - -• Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir) - (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo) - -• Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating - a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie) - -• Unix-specific: - · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656; - Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie) - · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups - when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb) - · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228, - Simon McVittie) - · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h, - like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen) - · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10 - (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie) - · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10 - (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie) - · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like - Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie) - -• Windows-specific: - · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its - C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) - · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie) - · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie) - -D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29) -== - -The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release. - -In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the -bugfixes from 1.4.14. - -Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need -changes to work as intended): - -• Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a - different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this - behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will - not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed - (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano) - -Other changes: - -• D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252; - Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie) - · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules - · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages - · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you - · promote the type system to be a top-level section - -• Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path - or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE, - and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš) - -• Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated - via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in - 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie) - -• Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258, - Simon McVittie) - -• Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until - test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie) - -• The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file - descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie) - -• Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if - the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache, - which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393, - Simon McVittie) - -• Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker) - -• Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610; - Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering) - -• Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message - (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie) - -• Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from - a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats - (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie) - -• Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie) - -• Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie): - · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc - · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output - · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir}) - -• Unix-specific: - · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all - the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib, - even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64, - /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering) - · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie) - -• Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker): - · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection - · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound - -D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10) -== - -Security (local denial of service): - -• Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing - local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon - (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7) - (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie) - -New things: - -• The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name, - DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX) - which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus. - -• If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built, - providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via - ./configure --enable-installed-tests - for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie) - -Changes: - -• Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount, - fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie) - -• Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is - small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual - toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark - various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for - your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie) - -• Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD - (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli) - -• Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation - when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie) - -• Windows-specific changes: - · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand) - -D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01) -== - -The "Boar Hunter" release. - -Notes for distributors: - - This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing - to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their - toolchain supports it reliably, via something like: - - ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" - - or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper. - -Changes: - - • D-Bus Specification v0.17 - · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant - (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie) - · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen) - • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether - it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie) - • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the - -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options - but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie) - • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way - (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato) - • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions - (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie) - • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt - (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie) - • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705, - Colin Walters) - • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358, - Simon McVittie) - • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie) - • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id - (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering) - • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open - on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie) - • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus, - rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson) - • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie) - • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling - (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie) - • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681, - Simon McVittie) - • Windows: - • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker) - -D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11) -== - -The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant -flying shark" release. - - • D-Bus Specification v0.16 - · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules - (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie) - · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings, - and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson) - • 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) - • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support - (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie) - • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie) - • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on - paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls - to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering) - -D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08) -== - -The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release. - - • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions - (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie) - • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496, - Anders Kaseorg) - • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add - --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether - in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie) - • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495, - Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen) - • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and - booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie) - • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly - errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering) - • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage - data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie) - • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to - .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg) - • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec= - (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters) - • Windows: - · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h - (Andre Heinecke) - · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation - (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand) - -D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17) -== - -The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release. - - • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests, - which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4 - -D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17) -== - - • 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) -== - - • 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. - -D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010) -== - - systemd hookup - -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 - -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 |