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@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@ -D-Bus 1.5.10 (UNRELEASED) +D-Bus 1.4.18 (UNRELEASED) == … -D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21) +D-Bus 1.4.16 (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) +The "this answerphone fails to answer the phone" release. • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not, @@ -57,37 +51,17 @@ of the bugfixes from 1.4.16. · 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) +D-Bus 1.4.14 (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) +The "Puny receptacle!" release. -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 +Changes: • 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) + or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE + (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 @@ -99,26 +73,6 @@ Other changes: • 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): @@ -137,7 +91,7 @@ Other changes: · 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) +D-Bus 1.4.12 (2011-06-10) == Security (local denial of service): @@ -178,10 +132,10 @@ Changes: • 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) +D-Bus 1.4.10 (2011-06-01) == -The "Boar Hunter" release. +The "Ape Ale" release. Notes for distributors: @@ -195,10 +149,6 @@ Notes for distributors: 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 @@ -208,8 +158,6 @@ Changes: (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, @@ -229,28 +177,6 @@ Changes: • 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) == |