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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -D-Bus 1.8.11 (UNRELEASED) +D-Bus 1.9.4 (UNRELEASED) == ... -D-Bus 1.8.10 (2014-11-10) +D-Bus 1.9.2 (2014-11-10) == -The “tenants with a leaking roof get priority” release. +The “structurally unsound flapjack” release. Security fixes: @@ -15,6 +15,155 @@ Security fixes: file descriptors, completing the incomplete fix in 1.8.8. (CVE-2014-7824, fd.o #85105; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy) +Enhancements: + +• D-Bus Specification version 0.25 + · new value 'const' for EmitsChangedSignal annotation + (fd.o #72958, Lennart Poettering) + · new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag, for PolicyKit and similar + (fd.o #83449; Lennart Poettering, Simon McVittie) + · annotate table of types with reserved/basic/container, and for + basic types, fixed/string-like + · clarify arbitrary limits by quoting them in mebibytes + +• New API: add accessors for the ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag + (fd.o #83449, Simon McVittie) + +• Add dbus-test-tool, a D-Bus swiss army knife with multiple subcommands, + useful for debugging and performance testing: + · dbus-test-tool spam: send repeated messages + · dbus-test-tool echo: send an empty reply for all method calls + · dbus-test-tool black-hole: do not reply to method calls + (fd.o #34140; Alban Crequy, Simon McVittie, Will Thompson) + +• Add support for process ID in credentials-passing on NetBSD + (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche) + +• Add an example script to find potentially undesired match rules + (fd.o #84598, Alban Crequy) + +• Document the central assumption that makes our use of credentials-passing + secure (fd.o #83499, Simon McVittie) + +• Replace the dbus-glib section of the tutorial with a GDBus recommendation, + and add some links to GDBus and QtDBus documentation (fd.o #25140, + Simon McVittie) + +Fixes: + +• Use a less confusing NoReply message when disconnected with a reply pending + (fd.o #76112, Simon McVittie) + +• Make the .pc file relocatable by letting pkg-config do all variable + expansion itself (fd.o #75858, Руслан Ижбулатов) + +• Fix a build failure on platforms with kqueue, which regressed in 1.9.0 + (fd.o #85563, Patrick Welche) + +• Consistently save errno after socket calls (fd.o #83625, Simon McVittie) + +• In dbus-spawn, when the grandchild process exits due to a failed exec(), + do not lose the exec() errno (fd.o #24821, Simon McVittie) + +• Do not fail the tests if a parent process has leaked non-close-on-exec + file descriptors to us (fd.o #73689, fd.o #83899; Simon McVittie) + +• Do not fail the tests on Unix platforms with incomplete + credentials-passing support, but do fail if we can't pass credentials + on a platform where it is known to work: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD + (fd.o #69702, Simon McVittie) + +• Detect accept4, dirfd, inotify_init1, pipe2, and Unix fd passing + when building with cmake, and expand test coverage there + (fd.o #73689; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) + +D-Bus 1.9.0 (2014-10-01) +== + +The “tiered cheeses” release. + +Requirements: + +• Support for the systemd: (LISTEN_FDS) pseudo-transport on Linux now + requires either the libsystemd or libsd-daemon shared library, dropping the + embedded convenience copy of sd-daemon (fd.o #71818, Simon) + +Build-time configuration changes: + +• The Stats interface is now enabled by default, and locked-down to + root-only on the system bus. Configure with --disable-stats + to disable it altogether on memory- or disk-constrained systems, + or see ${docdir}/examples/ to open it up to non-root users on the + system bus or restrict access on the session bus. + (fd.o #80759; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy) + +• The CMake build system now builds the same shared library name as Autotools + on at least Linux and Windows: + - on Linux (and perhaps other Unix platforms), it previously built + libdbus-1.so, but now builds libdbus-1.so.3.* with development + symlink libdbus-1.so and SONAME/symlink libdbus-1.so.3 + - on Windows, it previously built either libdbus-1.dll (release) or + libdbus-1d.dll (debug), but now builds libdbus-1-3.dll, copied to + libdbus-1.dll for compatibility with older applications. + (fd.o #74117, Ralf Habacker) + +Enhancements: + +• D-Bus Specification version 0.24 + · document how to quote match rules (fd.o #24307, Simon McVittie) + · explicitly say that most message types never expect a reply + regardles of whether they have NO_REPLY_EXPECTED + (fd.o #75749, Simon McVittie) + +• on Unix platforms, disable Nagle's algorithm on TCP connections to improve + initial latency (fd.o #75544, Matt Hoosier) + +• use backtrace() if it is in -lexecinfo instead of libc, as on NetBSD + (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche) + +• in dbus-monitor, print more information about file descriptors + (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy) + +• do not install system bus configuration if built for Windows + (fd.o #83583; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) + +• Add GetAllMatchRules to the Stats interface (fd.o #24307, Alban Crequy) + +• Add a regression test for file descriptor passing (fd.o #83622, + Simon McVittie) + +Fixes: + +• fix an incorrect error message if a Unix socket path is too long + (fd.o #73887, Antoine Jacoutot) + +• in an MSYS/Cygwin environment, pass Unix-style filenames to xmlto, + fixing documentation generation (fd.o #75860, Руслан Ижбулатов) + +• in Unix with X11, avoid giving dbus-launch a misleading argv[0] + in ps(1) (fd.o #69716, Chengwei Yang) + +• avoid calling poll() with timeout < -1, which is considered invalid + on FreeBSD and NetBSD (fd.o #78480, Jaap Boender) + +• be portable to BSD-derived platforms where O_CLOEXEC is unavailable in libc + (like Mac OS X 10.6), or available in libc but unsupported by the kernel + (fd.o #77032; rmvsxop, OBATA Akio, Patrick Welche) + +• Fix include path for test/internal/*.c with cmake (Ralf Habacker) + +• Documentation improvements + (fd.o #80795, #84313; Thomas Haller, Sebastian Rasmussen) + +• in dbus-monitor, do not leak file descriptors that we have monitored + (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy) + +• Set the close-on-exec flag for the inotify file descriptor, even + if built with CMake or older libc (fd.o #73689, Simon McVittie) + +• Remove some LGPL code from the Windows dbus-daemon + (fd.o #57272, Ralf Habacker) + D-Bus 1.8.8 (2014-09-16) == |