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authorJohn (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>2007-05-25 21:53:06 +0000
committerJohn (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>2007-05-25 21:53:06 +0000
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-D-Bus 1.0.0 (08 November 2006)
-==
-- Documents updated with API/ABI garuntees
-- Added missing patch FreeBSD need to run out of the box
-- dbus-monitor now has a profile mode
-- AUTHORS file updated with names from the ChangeLog
- Thanks to everyone who helped get us here
-
-D-Bus 1.0 RC 3 (0.95) (02 November 2006)
-==
-- DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE no longer needs to be defined when building apps
-- ./configure checks now work when cross compiling
-- dbus-uuidgen --ensure is now run in the init script so there is no need to
- run it in a post script
-- dbus-uuidgen now writes out to /var/lib/dbus to work with systems that do not
- have a writable /etc. Packages should install and own the /var/lib/dbus
- directory
-- recursive locks are now used when dbus_threads_init_default is called
-- standard_session_servicedirs tag added to the session.conf
- under a normal build this specifies these service directories:
- /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services
- /usr/share/dbus-1/services
- $HOME/.local/share/dbus-1/services
-- fixed crash when a service directory is specified more than once
-- fixed a crash in *BSD when watching config directories for changes
-- fixed Irix build by using dirp->__dd_fd to get the file descriptor
-- cleaned up the LOCAL_CREDS vs CMGCRED credential code so *BSD's don't
- crash here anymore
-- dbus_message_iter_get_array_len deprecated
-- cleanup-man-pages.sh added so packagers can clean up Doxygen man page output
- from 7 to 2 megs
-- large documentation improvements
-- numerous bug fixes
-
-D-Bus 1.0 RC 2 (0.94) (14 October 2006)
-==
-- dbus-uuidgen binary added for future remote machine identification
- packagers should call dbus-uuidgen --ensure in their post
-- GetMachineId peer method added to the bus API
-- dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages API added to let the bus send
- peer messages directly to an app
-- Autolaunch abilities added to dbus-launch with the --autolaunch flag
- This feature allows libdbus to start a session bus if none can be found
- This is an internal feature and should not be used by scripts
- DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is still the correct way to specify a session bus
-- dbus-launch now prints out a simple key value pairs instead of shell scripts
- if one of the shell flags aren't used
-- support DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT env variable to cause blocking waiting for gdb
-- weak ref are now held for shared connections so the right things happen
- this fixes some pretty major bugs with the way connections were handled
-- Some refactoring for Windows (doesn't effect Unix)
-- Solaris build fixes
-- MacOSX build fixes
-- Cross compile build fixes. We now assume getpwnam_r is posix and va_lists
- can be copied by value since we can't check this in a cross compile. If
- this is not true for a particular target is up to the developer to patch.
-- Bug fixing all around
-
-D-Bus 1.0 RC 1 (0.93) (14 September 2006)
-==
-- dbus_threads_init_default added for initalizing threads without the need for
- bindings
-- Filters are now properly removed
-- dbus_connection_open now holds a hard ref to shared connections
-- We now print out a warning and do nothing when someone tries to close a
- shared connection
-- The --introspect switch has been added to the bus for printing out
- introspection data without actually running the bus
-- LOCAL_CREDS socket credentials are now supported for systems which
- support it such as NetBSD
-- Generalize kqueue support so it works with NetBSD as well as FreeBSD
-- Numerous bug fixes and memory leaks patched
-
-D-Bus 0.92 (18 August 2006)
-==
-- Proper thread locking added to pending calls
-- Threading semantics changed from init early to init before the second thread
- is started
-- Correctly error out when an application tries to acquire or release the
- org.freedesktop.DBus name instead of sending false result codes
-- kqueue directory watching code can now be used to monitor config file changes
- on FreeBSD
-- --with-dbus-daemondir configure switch added so the daemon can be installed
- separate from the user binaries
-- Makefiles fixed for cygwin
-- Various fixes for the ongoing Windows port
-- Fixed docs and comments to use the D-Bus spelling instead of D-BUS
-- Many memleaks and bugs fixed
-
-D-Bus 0.91 (24 July 2006)
-==
-- Remove some lingering bits left over from the bindings split
-- Fix assertion causing D-Bus applications to crash when checks are enabled
-- Fix a timeout bug which would block applications from being auto started
-
-D-Bus 0.90 (17 July 2006)
-==
-- API/ABI freeze for 1.0
-- Bindings are now split out into seperate packages
-- ListActivatableNames added as a method on the bus
-- Removed deprecated dbus_connection_disconnect (use dbus_connection_close)
-- Shared connections are now unreffed on disconnect
-- Fixed pending calls for threaded enviornments
-- Pending calls get timed out on connection disconnect
-- dbus_connection_send_with_reply returns TRUE and a NULL pending call
- if you call it on a connection object which has been disconnected already
- (it returns FALSE on Out of Memory errors only)
-- dbus-monitor now correctly catches methods, not just signals
-- dbus-monitor now prints object paths
-
-D-BUS 0.62 (12 June 2006)
-==
-- Doc fixes
-- Added support for all data-types for the dbus tools
-- Fixed eavesdropping on method calls (dbus-monitor)
-- Fixed silent dropping of method calls with interface=NULL
-- Fixed console ownership problems in Solaris
-- Fixed installation of dbus-signature.h and #include it in dbus/dbus.h
-- Flush the user database cache on config reload
-- GLib bindings:
- - Fix memory leaks
- - Fix properties in DBusGProxy so that they can be given in any
- order
- - Added lots of assertions to ensure correct use
- - Remove duplicated code
- - Fix static string pointer uses in GPtrArray-based collections
-- Python bindings:
- - Remove reference to sys/cdefs.h
-- Qt4 bindings:
- - Code reorganized
- - Added the dbusidl2cpp, dbuscpp2xml and dbus tools
- - Added example programs (ping-pong, complex ping-pong, listnames, chat)
- - Updated selftests
- - Fixed compilation and .moc- and .ui-file processing and cleaning
- - Made central classes derive from QObject
- - Enhance error reporting
- - Many bugfixes
-- Mono bindings:
- - Minor bugfixes
-
-D-BUS 0.61 (24 Febuary 2006)
-==
-- Documentation all around
-- dbus-launch now produces correct sh and csh syntax
-- Nested arrays now work correctly
-- GLib bindings:
- - Inheriting from DBusGProxy is now possible
- - GPtrArrays can now be marshalled
- - org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ClientCSymbol annotation added
- - Openning connections to arbitrary addresses now supported
-- Python bindings:
- - sender_keyword and path_keyword keywords added to signal listener API
- - Byte types now demarshal to unsigned char
- - calling methods now do the correct thing
-- Qt bindings:
- - both Qt3 and Qt4 bindings can be built at the same time
- - Use the standard org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply annotation
- for the "async" calls instead of creating one for us.
-- Mono bindings:
- - 64bit arch fixes
-- Massive bug fixing all around
-
-D-BUS 0.60 (30 November 2005)
-==
-
-- major ABI/API changes - sonames changed
-- RequestName queuing behavior has changed (refer to dbus-specification)
- - DBUS_NAME_FLAG_PROHIBIT_REPLACEMENT has been removed and
- DBUS_NAME_FLAG_ALLOW_REPLACEMENT has been added to the flags
-- signals emitted by the bus now show up in the introspect data
-- auth EXTERNAL now supported on BSD varients
-- ReleaseName method added to the bus to allow a service
- to remove itself as owner of a bus name
-- dbus_connection_read_write added for getting messages off the bus
- in the absence of a mainloop
-- Qt4 bindings added and the Qt3 bindings have been depricated
-- python bindings:
- - marshal using introspect data if available
- - better exception handling and propigation
- - private connections are now supported
- - UTF-8 cleanups
- - out_signature added to method decorators for specifying
- how the return values should be marshaled
- - sender_keyword added to method decorators for specifying
- and argument to provide the unique name of the method caller
- - async_callbacks added to method decorators
- - multiple inheritance of classes now supported
-- GLib bindings:
- - respect NoReply annotations
- - dbus_g_method_return_get_reply and dbus_g_method_return_send_reply
- added to the lowlevel code for use when the dbus-glib marshalling
- code is not adiquate
-- numerous bug fixes all around
-
-D-BUS 0.50 (06 September 2005)
-===
-This is a minor release from 0.36.2. The series number has changed
-not because of any technical reasons but as an indication that we
-are moving closer to 1.0. It is hoped that this will be the last
-series to see major changes, most of which will be isolated to the
-GLib and Python bindings, as we transition to concentrate more on
-bug busting and code auditing.
-
-- D-Bus builds on the Cygwin platform
-- Makefile cleanups
-- Various bug fixes
-- Optimization of the dbus object tree
-- Memleaks and GIL crasher bugs have been fixed in the Python bindings
-
-D-BUS 0.36.2 (29 August 2005)
-===
-- Security: Restrict other users from connecting to another users
- session bus
-
-D-BUS 0.36.1 (24 August 2005)
-===
-- Python Bindings:
- - fixed to work with hal-device-manager
- - For 64bit builds everything is installed to lib64/python2.4/
- since Python can't handle multilib
-
-D-BUS 0.36 (23 August 2005)
-===
-- Maximum sized of cached messages have been reduced to 10K
-- Match rules now allow matching on arguments inside the message
-- introspect.xsl XSLT style sheet added for formatting introspection
- data into XHTML for analysis
-- Python bindings:
- - now have working type objects for explicit
- typecasting
- - Variant type has been added
- - Dictionaries, Variants and Arrays can all be passed the signiture or
- type(s) of their children
- - the optional timeout= keyword has been added when making method calls
- - match on args has been implemented
- - a .pth file has been added for dealing with libraries and python files
- being in different directories such as in 64bit installs
- - various bug fixes
-- GLib bindings:
- - deeply recursive types now supported
- - many symbols are no longer exported as part of the public API
- - various memleak and other bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.35.2 (17 July 2005)
-===
-- Rename Unix Security Context to SELinux Security Context in API
-- Fixed more dist errors that distcheck didn't pick up on
-- Fixed various bugs in the python bindings that prevented them from working
-
-D-BUS 0.35.1 (16 July 2005)
-===
-- Fixed dist error where python/dbus_bindings.pxd was being shipped
- instead of dbus_bindings.pxd.in
-- Use this instead of the 0.35 tarball
-
-D-BUS 0.35 (15 July 2005)
-===
-- --with-dbus-user added to the configure scripts for configuring the
- user the system bus runs on
-- --with-console-auth-dir added to configure scripts for configuring the
- directory to look in for console user locks
-- service files for auto-starting D-Bus services now has the ability to pass
- in command line arguments to the executable
-- Huge auto-start bug squashed which caused some services not to start when
- requested in rapid succession
-- SE-Linux security contexts can now be appended to messages for inspection
- by services that enforce their own security policies
-- Colin says the GLib binding are ready for general consumption
-- New GLib tutorial
-- New GLib example code
-- Python bindings are now version (0,42,0)
-- Python bindings API has changed on the service side
-- dbus.service has been split out as a seperate module
-- dbus.service.Service is renamed to dbus.service.BusName
-- dbus.service.Object has swapped the bus_name and object_path constructor
- parameters to make it easier to do inheritance over the bus
-- dbus.glib has been seperated out in order to lessen the dependency on glib
- and to allow other mainloops to be integrated with the bindings including
- a planned generic mainloop for non-gui apps.
-- Python bindings now aquire the GIL when calling back into the python
- interpreter. Fixes crashes when using threading and other random segfaults.
-- New Python tutorial
-- Numerous D-Bus bug fixes all around
-
-D-BUS 0.34 (15 June 2005)
-===
-- dbus_connection_disconnect is deprecated in favor of dbus_connection_close
-- The bus can now use D_NOTIFY (if available) to check when configuration files
- have changed and reload them
-- New dbus_message_has_path/member/interface API added
-- The Ping message from the org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer interface is now handled
-- Complete glib bindings overhaul (and are still under construction)
-- Tutorial now has an updated GLib section
-- GLib bindings can now send/receive hash tables, arrays and other complex types
-- Python bindings overhaul (most public facing API's done)
-- Python bindings have been split up into separate files
-- Python added new type classes for hinting to the marshaler what type
- to send over the wire
-- Python bindings now have decorators for specifying exported methods and signals
-- Numerous bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.33 (25 Apr 2005)
-===
-
-- downgrade requirement from GTK+-2.6 to 2.4 for building gtk components
-- python binding API's have been overhalled to be more "pythonic" and cleaner
-- python bindings now export dbus.version which is set to (0,40,0)
-- python bindings now implement the org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable interface
-- python binding match rules are now more flexable
-- make check has been fixed
-- many, many major bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.32 (29 Mar 2005)
-===
-
-- mono bindings now compiles correctly
-- mono binding cleanups
-- glib bindings generates wrappers for bus methods in dbus-glib-bindings.h
-- glib binding cleanus
-- users and groups can now be specified by UID and GID in config files
-- numerous memory leak fixes
-- various other fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.31 (07 Mar 2005)
-===
-
-- land the new message args API and recursive type system
-- add docs and fixed Doxygen warnings throught source
-- split out some functions not needed in libdbus to *-util.c source files
-- take out type convienience functions
-- libdbus now back below 150K
-- booleans are now 32-bit instead of 8-bit
-- specification updated
-- grand renaming to strip out the use of "service"
- just say "name" instead (or "bus name" when ambiguous)
-- rename dbus-daemon-1 to dbus-daemon throughout
-- rename activation to auto-start
-- auto-start on by default now
-- note that libdbus is the low-level API
-- python bindings updated to the new API
-- mono bindings updated to the new API
-- add 16 bit types
-- dictionaries are now ARRAYS of DICT_ENTRY
-- dbus-glib-tool renamed to dbus-binding-tool
-- massive rewrite of the glib bindings
-- saner names for the dbus interface, object path and service defines
-- new functions for handling type signitures
-- bump sonames for libdbus and libdbus-glib
-- various small fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.23 (11 Jan 2005)
-===
-
-- add setgroups() to drop supplementary groups
-- updated SELinux support
-- add an "at console" security policy
-- fix a bug where org.freedesktop.DBus wasn't recognized as an existing
- service.
-- error out if --enable-mono is explicitly set and mono libs can't be found
-- set the max_match_rules_per_connection limit from the config file.
-- removed dbus_bug_get_with_g_main since it's been replaced by
- dbus_g_bus_get
-- fix fd leaks in socket code
-- lots and lots of mono binding updates, including fixes to make it
- compatible with Mono 1.1.3
-- added --nofork option to override config file setting at runtime
-- added support for int64 and uint64 to the python bindings
-- lots of python binding updates
-- config file DTD updates
-- use SerivceOwnerChanges signal instead of ServiceCreated and
- ServiceDeleted
-- fixes to the authentication code
-- new init script for Slackware
-- print out the pid even when --fork is passed
-- increase preallocation sizes in DBusMessage to heavily reduce
- reallocs
-- lots of performance enhancements
-- lots more small bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.22
-===
-
-- add --reply-timeout to dbus-send
-- fix a memleak
-- fix Solaris/Forte build
-- switch to AFL 2.1 rather than 2.0 to address patent termination clause
- concerns
-- add SELinux support
-- mostly repair libxml backend for config parser, still doesn't
- pass out of memory tests
-- fix distcheck to include language bindings
-- add GetConnectionUnixUser method on bus driver
-- also for UnixProcessID
-- lots of Python, Mono, other binding fixes
-- change GLib bindings to not include dbus/dbus.h (fully encapsulate libdbus)
-- pass paths as strings, not arrays of string
-- add message signature header field
-- cleanups to marshaling code
-- clean up authentication code
-- reload conf files on SIGHUP
-- rename SERVICE/SENDER_SERVICE to DESTINATION/SENDER
-- fix circular conf file inclusion
-- allow empty arrays
-- tons of other small bugfixes
-
-D-BUS 0.21
-===
-
-- implement "auto activation" flag on messages, so the destination
- service can be launched automatically
-- fix a bug in custom type marshaling
-- optimize case where multiple apps activate the same service
- (avoid "thundering herd")
-- add dynamic service file discovery/reloading
-- fix a busy loop when blocking for a reply
-- fix a 64-bit crash involving varargs
-- fix a bus crash when processing an AcquireService
-- allow appending TYPE_BYTE via append_args_valist
-- fix dicts-inside-dicts
-- enhancements to Python and Qt bindings
-
-D-BUS 0.20
-===
-
-This release lands some very large API changes and numerous bugfixes.
-The list of changes is too large to fully document here; please refer
-to the documentation, and message-bus-list archives.
-
-D-BUS 0.13
-===
-
-This is probably the last release before landing the large API changes
-on the "dbus-object-names" branch.
-
-- fix system bus to always use filesystem socket; anyone
- can create any abstract socket, which isn't secure
- since if you can crash the system bus you'd be able
- to replace it.
-- add DTD for configuration file
-- improve specification a bit
-
-D-BUS 0.12
-===
-
-- fix "service messagebus status" on Red Hat
-- fix demarshaling of DBUS_TYPE_NAMED
-- fix "eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session`" to exit properly
-- fix build without --prefix
-- useless fooling with Mono bindings
-- useless fooling with gcj bindings
-- fix srcdir != builddir
-- fix various compiler warnings and other issues
-- add get/set data to DBusMessage
-- fix headers for C++
-- OS X build fixes
-- abstract domain sockets support (Linux only)
-- add dbus-cleanup-sockets utility for people
- not using linux
-- be consistent about defaulting to --session/--system
- with command line tools
-- merge in policies from included config files
-- fix build on non-x86
-- docs updates
-- lots of other bugfixes
-
-D-BUS 0.11
-===
-
-- add --enable-docs to turn off/on the docbook stuff
- (doesn't cover doxygen stuff yet)
-- make people define DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
- and read warning in README so they don't
- expect the API to be frozen already
-- rename .pc files to "dbus-1.pc" instead of
- "dbus-1.0.pc" etc. - this will require changing
- pkg-config invocations
-- some docs cleanups
-- add man pages for all executables
-- allow send to/from bus driver in the default system.conf
-- fix user lookup bug
-- implement dbus-launch to launch the session message bus
-- fix some thread deadlocks
-- some performance profiling/optimization
-- add dbus_bus_activate_service() function
-- fix some minor bugs here and there
-- install Red Hat initscript in the right place
-
-D-BUS 0.10
-===
-
-- reversed order of args to dbus_message_new()
-- renamed dbus_message_name_is() and some other
- functions
-- change DBusWatch to have dbus_watch_handle()
- similar to dbus_timeout_handle(), drop
- connection/server-specific handle routines
-- change message serials to be unsigned
-- implemented <allow>/<deny>/<limit> features for
- config file; system bus now has a deny-all policy
- by default.
-- system.conf has <includedir>system.d</includedir>
- so packages can install additions to the default
- policy to <allow> the messages they need. e.g.
- CUPS might install a cups.conf - see
- test/data/valid-config-files/system.d/test.conf
- for an example.
-- add timeouts for authentication, activation
-- add glib-style "checks" on public API, enable
- those by default, disable assertions by default
-- add GMainContext argument to GLib setup functions,
- can be NULL for default context. Needed for threads.
-- add 64-bit integer type
-- validate type of standard message header fields
-- consider messages in the org.freedesktop.Local
- namespace to be invalid (to avoid fake disconnect
- messages for example)
-- fix assorted memory leaks and other bugs in
- the SHA-1 auth mechanism
-- cache user database information (groups user is
- in, etc.) helps a lot with NIS
-- always store uid_t, pid_t, gid_t in "ulong"
- rather than "int"
-- implement config file settings for which
- users can connect
-- SHA-1 unit test
-- dbus-send, dbus-monitor command line utilities
-- fixed lots of misc crashes and other bugs
-
-D-BUS 0.9
-===
-
-- implemented a test case for service activation,
- and fixed many bugs exposed by that
-- implemented recursive argument marshaling/demarshaling
- for messages, allowing multidimensional arrays
-- fixed up integration of message dispatch with
- main loop by adding a callback on change of
- dispatch status
-- add a pidfile feature to daemon
-- some build fixes
-- clean up unix domain sockets on exit
-- add --print-address and the ability
- to create a random server address
- in a temporary directory
-
-D-BUS 0.8
-===
-
-- fix dumb bug in 0.7
-
-D-BUS 0.7
-===
-
-- implement configuration file used to control bus characteristics
-- implement daemon mode, changing user ID, and other system
- bus features
-- add init scripts for systemwide bus
-- add "make check-coverage" target to check test coverage
-- more test suite additions
-- many, many bugfixes
-- many API changes/fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.6
-===
-- Vastly improved bus daemon test suite
-- Lots of misc. bugfixes and memory leak fixes
-- Support for marshalling key/value data
-- Activation improvements.
-
-D-BUS 0.5
-===
-
-- Specification updates
-- port to OS X and other BSD variants
-- port to Solaris
-- Partial work on cookie-based authentication
-- Thread safety fixes
-- Lots of misc. bugfixes
-- Support for more array types
-- Add data slots to DBusServer
-- DBusString security audit fixes
-- Fix for systems (or valgrind) with unaligned malloc blocks
-
-D-BUS 0.4
-===
-
-- Preliminary activation support.
-- Better authentication test suite
-- Bus test program
-- Specification updates
-- Thread safety
-- Bug fixes
-
-D-BUS 0.3
-===
-
- - Preliminary limitations
- - Message sending works
- - Bus client
- - Array marshalling/demarshalling
- - Services
- - Better OOM handling in the bus
- - In-proc debug transport
- - Transport/server address support
-
-D-BUS 0.2
-===
-
- - Include test code in the tarball.
-
-D-BUS 0.1
-===
-
- - Initial release.
+D-Bus 1.1.0 (25 May 2007)
+==
+- first release in the development series, unless you need specific
+ functionality please use the stable releases as API's may change
+ (though we will try hard not to)
+- now works on windows thanks to the hard work of the windows porting team
+- better eavesdropping support now picks up reply messages for debugging
+- .pc file now lists the directory the daemon is installed into (daemondir)
+- GetAll call added to the properties interface
+- support for message serialization added for use with external transports like
+ TUBES!!!
+- many bugs fixed