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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 4 |
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@@ -1,12 +1,42 @@ -D-Bus 1.7.12 (UNRELEASED) +D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20) == -Enhancements: +The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release. + +This starts a new stable branch. The 1.6.x branch is now considered to be +outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as security +flaws. The 1.4.x and 1.2.x branches no longer have upstream support and +are unlikely to get any more releases, but if distributors still need to +support them, please share security patches via upstream. + +Summary of changes since 1.6.x: + +• libdbus always behaves as if dbus_threads_init_default() had been called + (thread-safety by default) +• new dbus-run-session tool, replacing certain misuses of dbus-launch +• dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again +• new org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials method +• GetConnectionUnixProcessID also works correctly on Windows, returning + the Windows process ID +• GetConnectionWindowsSID returns the correct SID on Windows +• expat is required, libxml2 can no longer be used as a substitute +• the userDB cache is required, and cannot be disabled +• a 64-bit integer type (either int, long, long long or _int64) is required +• better systemd-journald integration on Linux +• fixed long-standing fd and array leaks when failing to parse a message +• fixed referenced-but-never-freed parent nodes (effectively memory leaks) + when using certain object-path allocation patterns, notably in Avahi +• better defaults for Windows support +• better CMake support +• better portability to mingw32, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX and Hurd +• the source language for the man pages is now Docbook XML + +Enhancements since 1.7.10: • Enhance the CMake build system to check for GLib and compile/run - a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker) + a subset of the regression tests (fd.o #41252, #73495; Ralf Habacker) -Fixes: +Fixes since 1.7.10: • don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840, Ralf Habacker) @@ -20,7 +50,7 @@ Fixes: • Allow <allow_anonymous/> to appear in an included configuration file (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier) -Test behaviour changes: +Test behaviour changes since 1.7.10: • If the tests crash with an assertion failure, they no longer default to blocking for a debugger to be attached. Set DBUS_BLOCK_ON_ABORT in the diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 794e1569..ed77046a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ dnl -*- mode: m4 -*- AC_PREREQ([2.63]) m4_define([dbus_major_version], [1]) -m4_define([dbus_minor_version], [7]) -m4_define([dbus_micro_version], [11]) +m4_define([dbus_minor_version], [8]) +m4_define([dbus_micro_version], [0]) m4_define([dbus_version], [dbus_major_version.dbus_minor_version.dbus_micro_version]) AC_INIT([dbus],[dbus_version],[https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dbus],[dbus]) |