From 5882fcb12c8e826fba5d2f403467885ad276e0f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Havoc Pennington Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:59:42 +0000 Subject: 2007-07-27 Havoc Pennington * release 1.1.2 --- NEWS | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4f72cd20..a7488150 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,35 @@ +D-Bus 1.1.2 (27 July 2007) +== + +- This release is intended to be a feature complete beta for stable + release 1.2.0, please test it. 1.2.0 will follow pretty soon if no + major problems are found. We'll do more betas if significant + changes are made. + +- This is a development release, so API's may still change if problems + are found (though we will try hard not to). + +- The system bus now supports starting services on demand. This uses a + setuid helper program because system bus daemon runs as a nobody + user, while services it launches may need to run as a different + user. + + ***Extra eyes auditing the setuid helper are encouraged and would be + timely right now, before 1.2.0*** + + A design doc is available in doc/system-activation.txt + +- The TCP address format has been enhanced, such that TCP may be + actually usable. The dbus-daemon man page describes the new + elements in the address format. 1.1.1 had added an all_interfaces + flag to the format, which has been removed in favor of a cleaner + approach. + +- Some thread-related bugs have been fixed, these are important fixes + if you are using multiple threads with libdbus, and not important + otherwise. + + D-Bus 1.1.1 (18 June 2007) == - This is a development release, unless you need specific -- cgit