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-D-Bus 1.5.14 (UNRELEASED)
+D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20)
==
-...
+The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release.
+
+This starts a new stable branch. The 1.6.x branch is now considered to be
+outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as security
+flaws. The 1.4.x and 1.2.x branches no longer have upstream support and
+are unlikely to get any more releases, but if distributors still need to
+support them, please share security patches via upstream.
+
+Summary of changes since 1.6.x:
+
+• libdbus always behaves as if dbus_threads_init_default() had been called
+ (thread-safety by default)
+• new dbus-run-session tool, replacing certain misuses of dbus-launch
+• dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again
+• new org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials method
+• GetConnectionUnixProcessID also works correctly on Windows, returning
+ the Windows process ID
+• GetConnectionWindowsSID returns the correct SID on Windows
+• expat is required, libxml2 can no longer be used as a substitute
+• the userDB cache is required, and cannot be disabled
+• a 64-bit integer type (either int, long, long long or _int64) is required
+• better systemd-journald integration on Linux
+• fixed long-standing fd and array leaks when failing to parse a message
+• fixed referenced-but-never-freed parent nodes (effectively memory leaks)
+ when using certain object-path allocation patterns, notably in Avahi
+• better defaults for Windows support
+• better CMake support
+• better portability to mingw32, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX and Hurd
+• the source language for the man pages is now Docbook XML
+
+Enhancements since 1.7.10:
+
+• Enhance the CMake build system to check for GLib and compile/run
+ a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, #73495; Ralf Habacker)
+
+Fixes since 1.7.10:
+
+• don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840,
+ Ralf Habacker)
+
+• fix compilation of systemd journal support on older systemd versions where
+ sd-journal.h doesn't include syslog.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
+
+• fix compilation on older MSVC versions by including stdlib.h
+ (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker)
+
+• Allow <allow_anonymous/> to appear in an included configuration file
+ (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier)
+
+Test behaviour changes since 1.7.10:
+
+• If the tests crash with an assertion failure, they no longer default to
+ blocking for a debugger to be attached. Set DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT in the
+ environment if you want the old behaviour.
+
+• To improve debuggability, the dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-eavesdrop tests
+ can be run with an external dbus-daemon by setting
+ DBUS_TEST_DAEMON_ADDRESS in the environment. Test-cases that require
+ an unusually-configured dbus-daemon are skipped.
+
+D-Bus 1.7.10 (2014-01-06)
+==
+
+The “weighted companion cube” release.
+
+This is a release candidate for D-Bus 1.8.
+
+D-Bus Specification 0.23:
+
+• don't require messages with no INTERFACE to be dispatched
+ (fd.o #68597, Simon McVittie)
+
+• document "tcp:bind=..." and "nonce-tcp:bind=..." (fd.o #72301,
+ Chengwei Yang)
+
+• define "listenable" and "connectable" addresses, and discuss
+ the difference (fd.o #61303, Simon McVittie)
+
+Enhancements:
+
+• support printing Unix file descriptors in dbus-send, dbus-monitor
+ (fd.o #70592, Robert Ancell)
+
+• don't install systemd units if --disable-systemd is given
+ (fd.o #71818, Chengwei Yang)
+
+Fixes:
+
+• don't leak memory on out-of-memory while listing activatable or
+ active services (fd.o #71526, Radoslaw Pajak)
+
+• fix undefined behaviour in a regression test (fd.o #69924, DreamNik)
+
+• escape Unix socket addresses correctly (fd.o #46013, Chengwei Yang)
+
+• on SELinux systems, don't assume that SECCLASS_DBUS, DBUS__ACQUIRE_SVC
+ and DBUS__SEND_MSG are numerically equal to their values in the
+ reference policy (fd.o #88719, osmond sun)
+
+• define PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION if missing from MinGW < 4 headers
+ (fd.o #71366, Matt Fischer)
+
+• define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid conflicts between winsock.h and
+ winsock2.h (fd.o #71405, Matt Fischer)
+
+• do not return failure from _dbus_read_nonce() with no error set,
+ preventing a potential crash (fd.o #72298, Chengwei Yang)
+
+• on BSD systems, avoid some O(1)-per-process memory and fd leaks in kqueue,
+ preventing test failures (fd.o #69332, fd.o #72213; Chengwei Yang)
+
+• fix warning spam on Hurd by not trying to set SO_REUSEADDR on Unix sockets,
+ which doesn't do anything anyway on at least Linux and FreeBSD
+ (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
+
+• fix use of TCP sockets on FreeBSD and Hurd by tolerating EINVAL from
+ sendmsg() with SCM_CREDS (retrying with plain send()), and looking
+ for credentials more correctly (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie)
+
+• ensure that tests run with a temporary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to avoid
+ getting mixed up in XDG/systemd "user sessions" (fd.o #61301,
+ Simon McVittie)
+
+• refresh cached policy rules for existing connections when bus
+ configuration changes (fd.o #39463, Chengwei Yang)
+
+D-Bus 1.7.8 (2013-11-01)
+==
+
+The “extreme hills” release.
+
+Dependencies:
+
+• If systemd support is enabled, libsystemd-journal is now required.
+
+Enhancements:
+
+• When activating a non-systemd service under systemd, annotate its
+ stdout/stderr with its bus name in the Journal. 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)
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