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@@ -1,3 +1,33 @@ +D-Bus 1.1.20 - "Conisten Water" (27 Febuary) +== + +- This is the next generation supported STABLE release of D-Bus. For all + intents and purposes this is the 1.2.0 release WITHOUT the planned X11/MIT + license change due to a couple of license holders who have yet to respond. + For the most part this license change is being persued to simplify licensing + issues and fix a couple of licensing courner cases. When this happens D-Bus + will be released under the 1.2.0 version. + +- D-Bus 1.0.x effectively goes into security fix mode and will only be + updated for major issues. + +- Fixed CVE-2008-0595 - security policy of the type <allow send_interface= + "some.interface.WithMethods"/> work as an implicit allow for + messages sent without an interface bypassing the default deny rules and + potentially allowing restricted methods exported on the bus to be executed + by unauthorized users. + +- Fixes dbus-launch so the session bus goes away so does D-Bus + +- Builds against latest gcc/glibc changes + +- Correctly unref connections without guids during shutdown + +- About the name: Submitted by Greg K Nicholson, Conisten Water is a lake in + Cumbria, England where several water speed records have been broken. Between + 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in Bluebird K7, a hydroplane. + (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_Water#Waterspeed_record) + D-Bus 1.1.4 - 1.2.0RC2 (17 January 2007) == - Fixes inotify support |