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Version 2.8:

   * Patch manpage source to build with docbook2x (Patch from Alexander Kurtakov 
         <akurtako -at- redhat -dot- com>)

Version 2.7:

	* Fix bug in disconnected signal/exception handling (Spotted by Serkan Kaba
			<serkan_kaba -at- yahoo -dot- com>)
	* Fix bug in empty signals (Spotted by Daniel Wagner <Daniel -dot- Wagner
			-at- bmw-carit -dot- de>)
	* Fix bug in maps containing complex types (Spotted by Tim Court <tim -dot- 
			court -at- venture3systems -dot- com>)
	* Fix signal handling bug in DBusDaemon (Spotted by Markus Gaebelein 
			<Markus -dot- Gaebelein -at- fiducia -dot- de>)
	* Make MessageReader/Writer use Buffered streams to try and improve
			performance
	* Support reading session bus address from file in $HOME
	* Fix TCP cookie timestamp problems (Report/fix from Johannes Felten
			<johannesfelten -at- googlemail -dot- com>)
	* Add handleError() method to callbacks (breaks backwards source compatibility)

Version 2.6:

	* Add DBusConnection.releaseBusName API
	* Add DBusConnection.PeerSet for tracking peer lifetimes
	* Fix bug where DBusDaemon never sends NameOwnerChanged/NameLost
	  signals
	* Patches from Omair Majid <omajid -at- redhat -dot- com> to fix
	  DBusCall manpage and allow alternative docbook-to-man implementations.
	* Fix dependency on unix.jar even in tcp mode
	* Fix Path/ObjectPath cast issues (reported by Greg DeAngelis
	  <gdeangel -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Fix behavior when disconnected (spotted by Christopher 
	  Armstrong <carmstrong -at- fastmail -dot- com -dot- au>)

Version 2.5.1:

	* Fix for possible NPex in DBusDaemon
	* Add hexdump.jar to Class-Path for libdbus-java.jar
	* Add GetAll to properties interface (Patch from
	  Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik <sveinung84 -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net>)
	* Make signals with renamed interfaces and member names work
	  if they are explicitly listened for (Partially fixes: #18257).
	  Also make the error reporting better when it doesn't work.
	* Add test for signal with renamed interface.
	* Fix clearing of string buffer during marshalling (Fixes: #17362)
	* Fix array marshalling bug (Fixes: #13291)

Version 2.5:

	* Patch from  Omair Majid <omajid -at- redhat -dot- com> to
	  have seperate javadoc installation directory
	* Patch from  Omair Majid <omajid -at- redhat -dot- com> to
	  have make all build the manpages.
	* ... but as serkan_kaba requested, also provide a bin target which doesn't
	* Fix returning DBusSerializables (Spotted by Johannes Felten
	  <johannesfelten -at- googlemail -dot- com>)
	* Fix CreateInterface (Spotted by Tom Walsh <walshtc -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Fix serial assignment race condition (Spotted by Ed Wei
	  <Edward.Wei.03 -at- alum -dot- dartmouth -dot- org>)
	* Fix dynamic introspection of objects which export the same
	  interface multiple times (Patch from	Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
	  <sveinung84 -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net>)
	* Fix CreateInterface to mangle names which are reserved words
	  (Spotted by Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik <sveinung84 -at- users -dot-
		sourceforge -dot- net>)
	* Fix DBusDaemon to not crash on bad tcp connections (Patch from
	  Hugues Moreau <hmoreau -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Relicence to LGPL or AFL.

Version 2.4:

	* Add DBusMemberName to force method names or signal names to something
	  other than the Java name (suggested by Viktar Vauchkevich <vctr -at-
	  yandex -dot- ru>)
	* Don't respond to Introspect/Ping except on the right interface 
	  (pointed out by Serkan Kaba <serkan_kaba -at- yahoo -dot- com>)
	* Automatically unexport objects which go out of scope in the 
	  parent program (don't hold a strong reference). This is now
	  optional and not the default for 1. sanity and 2. a possible
	  bug in the WeakReference workings in Sun.
	* Add fallback objects---a single object can be called for any
	  object under a given path prefix.
	* Add support for localization of strings via gettext.
	* Throw a nicer error when signals are not declared as part of an
	  interface.
	* .viewerclasses needs to depend on .binclasses
	* Use libunixsocket-java support for writing multiple byte arrays at 
	  once to write message vectors
	* check that the unix-socket-received uid matches for connections to 
	  DBusDaemon
	* Update to use libunixsocket-java syntax which works on BSDs
	* Fix utf-8 characters used in test to actually be the same character...
	* Add code to preallocate the buffer array array (Suggested by Adam
	  Bennett <cruxic -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Fix warnings when building with gcj (fixes a bug in Peer handling and
	  DBusSerializable handling)

Version 2.3.2:

	* Fix empty array/map bug (reported by	Jan Kümmel
	  <freedesktop -at- snorc -dot- org>)
	* Add licence headers to files missing them
	* Fix minor bug in AbstractConnection.java (reported by Frank Benoit
	  <benoit -at- tionex -dot- de>)
	* Make Marshalling more verbose and descriptive in the presence of
	  mismatched parameter lists (suggested by Anibal Sanchez
	  <anibal -dot- sanchez -at- sunya -dot- com -dot- ar>)
	* Fix struct type parsing error (spotted by Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
	  <gunnar -dot- grimnes -at- dfki -dot- de> and Frank Benoit 
	  <keinfarbton -at- googlemail -dot- com>)
	* Fix parsing of serializable classes
	* Anonymous SASL (needs testing)

Version 2.3.1:
	
	* Fix regression in normal array handling (spotted by Anibal Sanchez
	  <anibal -dot- sanchez -at- sunya -dot- com -dot- ar>)

Version 2.3:

	* Apply recursive-path patch for DBusViewer (written by Zsombor Gegesy
	  <gzsombor -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Add Class-Path to jar manifests
	* Update documentation for nested classes
	* Documentation build fix
	* Add test for arrays-of-structs
	* Fix arrays-of-structs bug (spotted by Daniel Machado
	  <cdanielmachado -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Fix bashism in Makefile
	* add DBusInterfaceName annotation to override the Java interface name as
	  the name exported on the bus.

Version 2.2:

	* Fix cross-test to pass.
	* Fix DBusViewer.sh *again* (Spotted by Serkan Kaba <serkan_kaba
			-at- yahoo -dot- com>)
	* Add DBusCall
	* fix CreateInterface to put DBusException in the right package in import
		statements. Spotted by Steve Crane <Steve -dot- Crane -at- rococosoft
		-dot- com>
	* Update Cross-test to new spec
	* Change casting and return types for get{Peer,}RemoteObject calls to 
	  use generics so you don't need explicit casts on return types.
	  Suggested by Philippe Marschall <philippe -dot- marschall -at- gmail
	  -dot- com>.
	* Test with multiple requested (same actual) connection
	* Add async-with-callback API.

Version 2.1:

	* make scripts with $JAVA
	* fix DBusViewer.sh (Spotted by Luigi Paioro <luigi -at- lambrate -dot-
			inaf -dot- it>

Version 2.0:
	
	* Remove libdbus-1 dependency and talk the wire protocol directly
	* Add dependency on http://www.matthew.ath.cx/projects/java/ unix, debug
     and hexdump libraries
	* API changes:
		* Exceptions (including DBusException and DBusExecutionException) moved
	 	  to the org.freedesktop.dbus.exceptions package.
		* Convert/deserialize and dbus<->java type conversion code moved from
		  org.freedesktop.dbus.DBusConnection to org.freedesktop.dbus.Marshalling.
		* Types moved to the org.freedesktop.dbus.types package.
		* All message metadata methods have been moved to the superclass and
		  getObjectPath() has been renamed to getPath().
		* Deprecated method registerService has been removed.
		* getUniqueName() and getNames() methods added to get the bus names
		  associated with this connection.
		* Access to the low-level API added.
	* Change all documentation to refer to 'implementation' not 'binding'
	* Add peer 2 peer support with DirectConnection class
	* add peer to peer test
	* split some code from DBusConnection into common super-class
	  AbstractConnection
	* Support float ('f') type with tests
	* Degrade floats to doubles when DBUS_JAVA_FLOATS is not set
	* add DBus.Peer interface to standard introspection data
	* Document peer to peer and low level.
	* Fix TCP and SHA-1 auth
	* fix wrapper scripts with new depends
	* add a DBusDaemon
	* Make daemon multithreaded; performance improvements
	* Add sending thread to library, move to blocking IO
	* Ensure key directory exists when serving cookie auth
	* Add TCP support to daemon
	* Remove dependency on dbus-daemon for tests
	* add --version support for other programs
	* Add windows wrapper scripts
	* Test working on Windows
	* Add makefile target to build zip file for windows
	* Add windows compile script
	* DBusDaemon can generate random TCP ports to listen on

Version 1.13:

	* add AccessDenied signal
	* fix deadlock issue when sending objectpaths in signals, spotted by Mathis
	* add Path type which can be used for non-auto OBJECT_PATH handling, spotted by Mathis
	* fix some freebsd build issues:
		* remove explicit recursive make calls
		* parameterize /usr/lib as DBUSLIBDIR
	  Spotted by Roberto Francisco Arroyo Moreno <robfram -at- ugr -dot- es>
	* rejig build system to replace variables in wrapper in make stage and
	  use DESTDIR properly, hence removing the RUNPREFIX stuff.
	* add checks and documentation for DBusInterfaces not being in a package.
	  Spotted by Henrik Petander <henrik -dot- petander -at- iki -dot- fi>

Version 1.12:

	* fix internal-cross-test bugs and increase error verbosity
	* add org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply, change to that from my own
	* add -pedantic -std=c99 flags to GCC
	* remove supplied Hal classes as they are out of date
	* change to using tex4ht rather than latex2html

Version 1.11:

	* fix script replacement directories to be different to install directories
	* split install-doc and install-man to allow easy split -doc package

Version 1.10:

	* fix URLs to point to fdo 
	* check for signal path validity in Java
	* fix NameAcquired spelling
	* check array lengths and name lengths
	* support method calls with empty interfaces
	* support for non-activating remote objects
	* remove errant debug statemant left in 1.9
	* Fix List<List<Integer>> bug spotted by Remi Emonet
	  <remi.emonet -at- inrialpes -dot- fr>
	* Fix OBJECT_PATH handling; bug spotted by Remi Emonet
	  <remi.emonet -at- inrialpes -dot- fr>
	* added getRemoteObject and getPeerRemoteObject methods with
	  introspection support to guess interfaces.
	* changed introspection to recurse over the exported object tree
	  and show sub-objects.
	* compare maps unordered in tests; spotted by Simon McVittie 
	  <simon -dot- mcvittie -at- collabora -dot- co -dot- uk>
	* implement UInt64 with BigInteger to allow full-range UInt64s
	* fix $ in introspection data for nested interfaces
	* fix the required dbus version in the docs
	* can now send DBUS_TYPE_SIGNATURE as Type[]
	* rewrite Variant handling to work with complex types
	* add $JAVA_HOME/include and $JAVA_HOME/include/linux to CFLAGS
	  (Fix from Joshua Nichols <nichoj -at- gentoo -dot- org>)
	* remove unneccessary build warnings
	  (Fix from Joshua Nichols <nichoj -at- gentoo -dot- org>)
	* seperate install and install-doc targets
	  (Suggested by Ralf Kistner <ralf.kistner -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* add -fno-stack-protector flag (only for gcc 4.1 or later)
	  (Suggested by Ralf Kistner <ralf.kistner -at- gmail -dot- com>)
	* Revamp tuples
	* Build without DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE set
	* fix LDFLAGS to work properly with --as-needed
	  (Suggested by TFKyle)
	* Update CreateInterface to new API
	* More speed fixes with type introspection
	* Add README and INSTALL files
	* Change wrappers to point to installed locations

Version 1.9:

	* Map and List handling optimisations 
	* Struct optimisations
	* Canonicalise D-Bus spelling in documentation
	* Update documentation
	* Implement cross-bindings test suite
	* add getPeerRemoteObject method
	* add addSigHandler methods which filter on sender and path
	* Signal handling optimisations
	* deprecating service in favour of bus name. Deprecated registerService in
	  favour of requestBusName

Version 1.8:

	* stop dvips printing on wierd systems
	* Doc patches from Dick Hollenbeck <dick -at- softplc -dot- com>
	* reduce TIMEOUT to 1ms and check for outbound messages in the JNI; reduces
	  RTT from 100ms to ~1ms
	* Remove two java collections which were doing a lot of allocation and
	  deallocation and replace with data structures based on arrays.
	* add removeSigHandler method
	* add profiling application
	* handle incoming & outgoing native array types natively (biiiig savings
			here)

Version 1.7:
	
	* compiles with -Xlint:all
	* fixed struct/nested struct creation
	* compile with -Os -O -Wall -Werror -g:none and strip
	* allow overloading methods by argument type
	* getJavaType bugfix from Antoine Perdaens
	* nulls in Variant fix from Antoine Perdaens
	* Variant parameter checking in <init>
	* CreateInterface now maintains order of parameters to signals

Version 1.6:

	* Custom serializable objects
	* Thread pool model
	* CreateInterfaces updated to handle new Structs, annotations, Signals etc

Version 1.5:
	
	* Remove static library dependency

Version 1.4:

	* provide call info to called methods
	* check for disconnections and throw
	* complete rewrite of Structs
	* add message send/receive debugging

Version 1.3:

	* Annotation and throws support
	* proper noreply support
	* asynchronous method call support
	* strip InternalErrorMessage reference from JNI

Version 1.2:

	* Make sure pending messages are sent on disconnect
	* Import of viewer application (Peter Cox <petercox -at- gawab -dot- com>)
	* Make CreateInterface usable in other apps.
	* Import extra functions that weren't documented into DBus.java
	* Implement throwing and catching of specific exception types

Version 1.1:

	* Fix connections to multiple busses
	* Allow connections by bus address
	* Stricter error checking in looking up connection object

Version 1.0:

	* 1.x is a java 1.5 version, 0.x is a java 1.4 version 
	* introspect on the root object
	* support for nested nodes in CreateInterface