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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2007-05-25 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> + * Released 1.1.0 + +2007-05-25 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> + * Split NEWS and ChangeLog into a .pre-1-0 file as per HACKING We forgot to do this during the 1.0 release and it makes sense now as we get ready to release the first 1.1.0 development tarball @@ -1,614 +1,12 @@ -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 |