dbus 1.15.8 (2023-08-21) ======================== Build-time configuration changes: • For this version of dbus, Meson is the recommended build system for all Unix platforms. CMake continues to be recommended for Windows, but this recommendation might change to Meson in a future release, so please test the Meson build. See INSTALL for details. • Autotools-generated files are no longer included in the tarball release. The Autotools build system is likely to be removed in a future dbus release, so Autotools users should migrate to Meson as soon as possible. It is still possible to build using Autotools, by following the same procedure as for a git clone (starting with the `./autogen.sh` script). Enhancements: • On Linux with sufficiently new glibc and kernel headers, report a pinned process file descriptor (pidfd) as the ProcessFD member of the GetConnectionCredentials() result (dbus!420, dbus!398; Luca Boccassi) • On Linux with systemd, start as the target user/group (retaining CAP_AUDIT_WRITE to preserve the ability to write to the audit log), instead of starting as root and dropping privileges (dbus!399, Luca Boccassi) • On 32-bit glibc systems, opt-in to 64-bit timestamps if possible. This will allow 32-bit builds of libdbus to continue working after 2038. (dbus#465, Simon McVittie) • On 32-bit glibc systems when built with CMake, also opt-in to large file sizes, offsets and inode numbers, as was done for Autotools since 1.12.x and Meson since the Meson build was introduced (dbus#465, fd.o #93545; Simon McVittie) • Avoid known dbus-daemon options being interpreted as optional arguments (dbus#467, Xin Shi) • If libdbus is a Meson subproject in a larger project, announce it as an implementation of the dbus-1 dependency (dbus!415, Barnabás Pőcze) • When built with CMake, get the version number from Meson instead of Autotools, in preparation for the Autotools build system being removed (dbus!382, Ralf Habacker) • When built with Meson, disable some unwanted warnings when either assertions or checks is disabled (dbus!412, Simon McVittie) • Use C11 if possible (dbus!431, Simon McVittie) • Expand coverage of SPDX/REUSE copyright/license information (dbus!427, Simon McVittie) • On Linux, let dbus-daemon start up successfully (with a warning) if inotify initialization fails, even if DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=1 is present in the environment (dbus#473, Simon McVittie) • On Unix, provide a better error message when looking up a user by name or user ID fails (dbus!442, Simon McVittie) Bug fixes: • Avoid a dbus-daemon crash if re-creating a connection's policy fails. If it isn't possible to re-create its policy (for example if it belongs to a user account that has been deleted or if the Name Service Switch is broken, on a system not supporting SO_PEERGROUPS), we now log a warning, continue to use its current policy, and continue to reload other connections' policies. (dbus#343; Peter Benie, Simon McVittie) • If getting the groups from a user ID fails, report the error correctly, instead of logging "(null)" (dbus#343, Simon McVittie) • Return the primary group ID in GetConnectionCredentials()' UnixGroupIDs field for processes with a valid-but-empty supplementary group list (dbus!422, cptpcrd) • `sudo meson install` without a DESTDIR is now possible, although strongly discouraged on production systems (dbus#436, Simon McVittie) • Fix a Meson deprecation warning (dbus#439, Simon McVittie) Tests and CI enhancements: • Internal CI changes (dbus#455, dbus!414, dbus#468, dbus#469, dbus!424, dbus!430, dbus#436, dbus#470; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.15.6 (2023-06-06) ======================== Denial-of-service fixes: • Fix an assertion failure in dbus-daemon when a privileged Monitoring connection (dbus-monitor, busctl monitor, gdbus monitor or similar) is active, and a message from the bus driver cannot be delivered to a client connection due to rules or outgoing message quota. This is a denial of service if triggered maliciously by a local attacker. (dbus#457; hongjinghao, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • Special-case reading pseudo-files from Linux /proc to take into account the filesystem's unusual semantics (dbus!401, Luca Boccassi) Other fixes: • Fix compilation on compilers not supporting __FUNCTION__ (dbus!404, Barnabás Pőcze) • Fix some memory leaks on out-of-memory conditions (dbus!403, Barnabás Pőcze) • Documentation: · Update the README to recommend building with Meson (dbus!402, Ahmed Abdelfattah) · Fix syntax of a code sample in dbus-api-design (dbus!396; Yen-Chin, Lee) • CMake build fixes: · Detect presence of (dbus!400, Luca Boccassi) Tests and CI enhancements: • Fix CI pipelines after freedesktop/freedesktop#540 (dbus!405, dbus#456; Simon McVittie) • Ensure the messagebus user is created if necessary (dbus#445, Ralf Habacker) dbus 1.15.4 (2023-02-08) ======================== Dependencies: • Building with CMake now requires CMake ≥ 3.9. Build-time configuration changes: • On Unix platforms, a path in the runtime state directory (often /run) is now used for the well-known system bus socket by default. OS distributors should check that the path used is equivalent to the interoperable path /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket, especially if running on an OS where /var/run is not guaranteed to be a symbolic link to /run. (dbus#180; Issam E. Maghni, Simon McVittie) · With Autotools, this is controlled by --runstatedir, which defaults to ${localstatedir}/run but is often set to /run by OS distributors. The path to the system bus socket can be overridden with the --with-system-socket option if required. · With CMake, this is controlled by the RUNSTATEDIR option, which has behaviour similar to Autotools. There is no separate option for the path to the system bus socket. · With Meson, this is controlled by the runtime_dir option, which defaults to /run if the installation prefix is set to /usr, or has behaviour similar to Autotools otherwise. The path to the system bus socket can be overridden with the system_socket option if required. Denial of service fixes: • Fix an incorrect assertion that could be used to crash dbus-daemon or other users of DBusServer prior to authentication, if libdbus was compiled with assertions enabled. We recommend that production builds of dbus, for example in OS distributions, should be compiled with checks but without assertions. (dbus#421, Ralf Habacker; thanks to Evgeny Vereshchagin) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.41: · Clarify handling of /run vs. /var/run on Unix systems (dbus#180, Simon McVittie) • Add dbus_connection_set_builtin_filters_enabled(), intended to be called by tools that use BecomeMonitor() such as dbus-monitor (dbus#301, Kai A. Hiller) • When using the Meson build system, dbus can now be used as a subproject. To avoid colliding with a separate system copy of dbus, building it as a static library with tests, tools and the message bus disabled is strongly recommended. See test/use-as-subproject for sample code. (dbus!368, dbus!388; Daniel Wagner) Other fixes: • When connected to a dbus-broker, stop dbus-monitor from incorrectly replying to Peer method calls that were sent to the dbus-broker with a NULL destination (dbus#301, Kai A. Hiller) • Fix out-of-bounds varargs read in the dbus-daemon's config-parser. This is not attacker-triggerable and appears to be harmless in practice, but is technically undefined behaviour and is detected as such by AddressSanitizer. (dbus!357, Evgeny Vereshchagin) • Avoid a data race in multi-threaded use of DBusCounter (dbus#426, Ralf Habacker) • Fix a crash with some glibc versions when non-auditable SELinux events are logged (dbus!386, Jeremi Piotrowski) • If dbus_message_demarshal() runs out of memory while validating a message, report it as NoMemory rather than InvalidArgs (dbus#420, Simon McVittie) • Use C11 _Alignof if available, for better standards-compliance (dbus!389, Khem Raj) • Stop including an outdated copy of pkg.m4 in the git tree (dbus!365, Simon McVittie) • Meson build fixes: · Use -fvisibility=hidden on Unix if supported, in particular on Linux (dbus!383, dbus#437; Simon McVittie) · Fix build on macOS, and any other platform that has CLOCK_MONOTONIC but not pthread_condattr_setclock() (dbus#419, Jordan Williams) • Documentation: · Consistently use Gitlab bug reporting URL (dbus!372, Marco Trevisan) • Licensing: · Use MIT license for some test files that did not previous specify a license, with permission from their authors (dbus!359, Simon McVittie) · Add more SPDX/REUSE license markers (dbus!311, dbus!369, dbus!370, dbus!371, dbus!375, dbus!376; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) · Correct syntax of some SPDX license markers (dbus!360, Ralf Habacker) • Tests fixes: · Fix an assertion failure in test-autolaunch-win (dbus#422, Ralf Habacker) · Expand test coverage under CMake (dbus!322, Ralf Habacker) · Fix the test-apparmor-activation test after dbus#416 (dbus!380, Dave Jones) Internal changes: • Add static assertions for some things we assume about pointers (dbus!345, Simon McVittie) • Refactoring (dbus!356, dbus#430, dbus#431; Simon McVittie, Xin Shi) • Fix CI builds with recent git versions (dbus#447, Simon McVittie) • Build dbus with clang during CI (dbus!358, Evgeny Vereshchagin) dbus 1.15.2 (2022-10-05) ======================== This development release incorporates the same denial-of-service fixes and security hardening as dbus 1.14.4. Behaviour changes: • On Linux, dbus-daemon and other uses of DBusServer now create a path-based Unix socket, unix:path=..., when asked to listen on a unix:tmpdir=... address. This makes unix:tmpdir=... equivalent to unix:dir=... on all platforms. Previous versions would have created an abstract socket, unix:abstract=..., in this situation. This change primarily affects the well-known session bus when run via dbus-launch(1) or dbus-run-session(1). The user bus, enabled by configuring dbus with --enable-user-session and running it on a systemd system, already used path-based Unix sockets and is unaffected by this change. This behaviour change prevents a sandbox escape via the session bus socket in sandboxing frameworks that can share the network namespace with the host system, such as Flatpak. This change might cause a regression in situations where the abstract socket is intentionally shared between the host system and a chroot or container, such as some use-cases of schroot(1). That regression can be resolved by using a bind-mount to share either the D-Bus socket, or the whole /tmp directory, with the chroot or container. (dbus#416, Simon McVittie) Denial of service fixes: Evgeny Vereshchagin discovered several ways in which an authenticated local attacker could cause a crash (denial of service) in dbus-daemon --system or a custom DBusServer. In uncommon configurations these could potentially be carried out by an authenticated remote attacker. • An invalid array of fixed-length elements where the length of the array is not a multiple of the length of the element would cause an assertion failure in debug builds or an out-of-bounds read in production builds. This was a regression in version 1.3.0. (dbus#413, CVE-2022-42011; Simon McVittie) • A syntactically invalid type signature with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets would cause an assertion failure in debug builds. Similar messages could potentially result in a crash or incorrect message processing in a production build, although we are not aware of a practical example. (dbus#418, CVE-2022-42010; Simon McVittie) • A message in non-native endianness with out-of-band Unix file descriptors would cause a use-after-free and possible memory corruption in production builds, or an assertion failure in debug builds. This was a regression in version 1.3.0. (dbus#417, CVE-2022-42012; Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.40 (dbus#416, Simon McVittie) · Clarify that unix:tmpdir is not required to use abstract sockets, even where supported · Mention implications of abstract sockets for Linux namespacing dbus 1.15.0 (2022-09-22) ======================== Dependencies: • On platforms where a pointer is larger than 64 bits, dbus requires at least a C11 compiler. On other platforms, dbus now requires either a C99 compiler such as gcc or clang, or Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later. Some workarounds for pre-C99 environments are currently still present, but we plan to remove them during this development cycle. • Building with CMake now requires CMake ≥ 3.4. • Building with Meson requires Meson ≥ 0.56 and Python ≥ 3.5. Feature removal: • Remove support for the obsolete pam_console and pam_foreground modules (the Autotools --with-console-auth-dir= and CMake -DDBUS_CONSOLE_AUTH_DIR= options, which have been deprecated since dbus 1.11.18). (dbus#181, fd.o#101629) Build-time configuration changes: • Add a Meson build system. This is currently considered experimental, but the intention is for it to replace Autotools and/or CMake in future releases, preferably both. Please test! (dbus!303, dbus!325; Félix Piédallu, Marc-André Lureau, Simon McVittie) · This requires Meson 0.56 or newer, and Python 3.5 or newer. · Expat can be built as a subproject using Meson's "wrap" mechanism, if desired. This should make it considerably easier to build dbus for Windows or other platforms without a library packaging system. · GLib can also be built as a subproject using Meson's "wrap" mechanism, if desired. This should make it considerably easier to build full test coverage on Windows or other platforms without a library packaging system. • Please note that not all Meson build options correspond 1:1 to how the closest equivalents in Autotools or CMake behave, and the Meson build options are subject to change. Distributors and developers evaluating the Meson build should check that they are configuring dbus the way they intend to. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.39: · Document how to represent internationalized domain names in D-Bus names (dbus!324, Simon McVittie) · Improve documentation of AF_UNIX sockets (Marc-André Lureau) • On Unix, speed up closing file descriptors for subprocesses by using closefrom() or close_range() where available (dbus#278; rim, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, dbus can now use AF_UNIX sockets, not just TCP. This requires Windows 10 build 17063 or later at runtime, and either Windows 10 SDK 17063 or mingw-w64 version 9.0.0 or later at compile-time. (dbus!249, Marc-André Lureau) • Teach dbus-send to handle variants in containers: arrays of variants, variant values in dictionaries, and nested variants (dbus!206, Frederik Van Bogaert) • Detect programming errors with Windows mutexes if assertions are enabled, similar to what we already did for pthreads mutexes (dbus#369, Ralf Habacker) • Move license text into LICENSES, and start to use SPDX markers (Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) Fixes: • Portability to CPU architectures with larger-than-64-bit pointers (dbus!335, dbus!318; Alex Richardson) • Fix build failure on FreeBSD (dbus!277, Alex Richardson) • Fix build failure on macOS with launchd enabled (dbus!287, Dawid Wróbel) • Preserve errno on failure to open /proc/self/oom_score_adj (dbus!285, Gentoo#834725; Mike Gilbert) • Improve dbus-launch --autolaunch so it can pick up an existing bus from Linux XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or macOS launchd, even if X11 autolaunching was disabled (dbus#385, dbus#392; Simon McVittie, Alex Richardson) • Correctly escape AF_UNIX socket paths when converting them to D-Bus address strings (dbus#405, Marc-André Lureau) • On Linux, don't log warnings if oom_score_adj is read-only but does not need to be changed (dbus!291, Simon McVittie) • Slightly improve error-handling for inotify (dbus!235, Simon McVittie) • Don't crash if dbus-daemon is asked to watch more than 128 directories for changes (dbus!302, Jan Tojnar) • Silence various compiler warnings (dbus!275, dbus!289, dbus!305, dbus!307, dbus!312, dbus!315; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie, Alex Richardson, Marc-André Lureau) • On Windows, use safer locking patterns for the system-global mutex used to implement autolaunching (dbus#368, dbus#370; Ralf Habacker) • Index dbus-arch-deps.h for API documentation when building out-of-tree (dbus!312, Marc-André Lureau) • Silence xmlto warnings when building man pages (dbus!312, Marc-André Lureau) • Fix build failure when checks are disabled but assertions are enabled (dbus#412, Johannes Kauffmann) • Use C99 flexible arrays in the memory pool implementation for better support for modern compilers (dbus!343, dbus!344; Alex Richardson, Simon McVittie) • Autotools build system fixes: · Don't treat --with-x or --with-x=yes as a request to disable X11, fixing a regression in 1.13.20. Instead, require X11 libraries and fail if they cannot be detected. (dbus!263, Lars Wendler) · When a CMake project uses an Autotools-built libdbus in a non-standard prefix, find dbus-arch-deps.h successfully (dbus#314, Simon McVittie) · Don't include generated XML catalog in source releases (dbus!317, Jan Tojnar) · Improve robustness of detecting gcc __sync atomic builtins (dbus!320, Alex Richardson) • CMake build system fixes: · Detect endianness correctly, fixing interoperability with other D-Bus implementations on big-endian systems (dbus#375, Ralf Habacker) · Fix a race condition generating man pages and HTML documentation (dbus#381, Ralf Habacker) · When building for Unix, install session and system bus setup in the intended locations (dbus!267, dbus!297; Ralf Habacker, Alex Richardson) · Detect setresuid() and getresuid() (dbus!319, Alex Richardson) · Detect backtrace() on FreeBSD (dbus!281, Alex Richardson) · Don't include headers from parent directory (dbus!282, Alex Richardson) · Fix -Wunused-command-line-argument on FreeBSD (dbus!278, Alex Richardson) · Only add warning flags if the compiler supports them (dbus!276, Alex Richardson) · Distinguish between host and target TMPDIR when cross-compiling (dbus!279, Alex Richardson) · Improve compiler warning detection (dbus#387, Ralf Habacker) · Allow TEST_SOCKET_DIR to be overridden (dbus!295, Ralf Habacker) · Fix detection of atomic operations (dbus!306, Alex Richardson) · Use DWARF 2 instead of STABS for debug symbols on Windows, for compatibility with newer gcc versions (dbus!323, Marc-André Lureau) · Fix use of paths relative to the dbus project directory when dbus is vendored into a larger CMake project (dbus!332, Jordan Williams) Tests and CI enhancements: • Add an automated test for Windows autolaunching (dbus#235, Ralf Habacker) • Avoid compiler warnings in test code (dbus#383, dbus!274, dbus!275; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) • Avoid LeakSanitizer warnings in test code (dbus!326, Simon McVittie) • Speed up a particularly slow unit test by a factor of 30 (dbus!328, Simon McVittie) • On Unix, skip tests that switch uid if run in a container that is unable to do so, instead of failing (dbus#407, Simon McVittie) • On Unix, consistently create test sockets in DBUS_TEST_SOCKET_DIR and not the build directory, allowing the build directory to be mounted with a non-POSIX filesystem (dbus!334, Alex Richardson) • Gitlab-CI improvements (dbus#383, dbus#388, dbus!262, dbus!288, dbus!292, dbus!296, dbus!299, dbus!301; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie, Alex Richardson) • Added FreeBSD Gitlab-CI build jobs (dbus!280, dbus!347; Alex Richardson) • Use the latest MSYS2 packages for CI (Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.14.0 (2022-02-28) ======================== 1.14.x is a new stable branch, superseding 1.12.x. Summary of major changes between 1.12.x and 1.14.0 -------------------------------------------------- Dependencies: • dbus now requires at least a basic level of support for C99 variadic macros, as implemented in gcc >= 3, all versions of Clang, and MSVC >= 2005. In practice this requirement has existed since version 1.9.2, but it is now official. • dbus now requires a C99-compatible va_copy() macro (or a __va_copy() macro with the same behaviour), except when building for Windows using MSVC and CMake. • On Unix platforms, if getpwnam_r() and getgrnam_r() are implemented, they must be POSIX-conformant. The non-POSIX signature seen in ancient Solaris versions will no longer work. • All Windows builds now require Windows Vista or later. (Note that we do not recommend or support use of dbus on operating systems outside their vendor's security support lifetime, such as Vista.) • GLib >= 2.38 is required if full test coverage is enabled (reduced from 2.40 in dbus 1.12.x.) • Building using CMake now requires CMake 3.4. • Building documentation using CMake now requires xsltproc, Docbook DTDs (for example docbook-xml on Debian derivatives), and Docbook XSLT stylesheets (for example docbook-xsl on Debian derivatives). Using KDE's meinproc4 documentation processor is no longer supported. Build-time configuration changes: • Move CMake build system to top level, matching normal practice for CMake projects Deprecations: • Third-party software should install default dbus policies for the system bus into ${datadir}/dbus-1/system.d (this has been supported since dbus 1.10, released in August 2015). Installing default dbus policies in ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d is now considered to be deprecated. Policy files in ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d continue to be read, but this directory should only be used by system administrators wishing to override the default policies. The ${datadir} applicable to dbus is usually /usr/share and the ${sysconfdir} is usually /etc. • A similar pattern applies to the session bus policies in session.d. • The dbus-send(1) man page now documents --bus and --peer instead of the old --address synonym for --peer, which has been deprecated since the introduction of --bus and --peer in 1.7.6 • The dbus-daemon man page now has scarier warnings about and non-local TCP, which are insecure and should not be used, particularly for the standard system and session buses • DBusServer (and hence the dbus-daemon) no longer accepts usernames (login names) for the recommended EXTERNAL authentication mechanism, only numeric user IDs or the empty string. See 1.13.0 release notes for full details. New features: • On Linux 4.13 or later when built against a suitable glibc version, GetConnectionCredentials() now includes UnixGroupIDs, the effective group IDs of the initiator of the connection, taken from SO_PEERGROUPS. • On Linux 4.13 or later, now uses the SO_PEERGROUPS credentials-passing socket option to get the effective group IDs of the initiator of the connection. See 1.13.4 release notes for details. • Add a --sender option to dbus-send, which requests a name and holds it until the signal has been sent • dbus-daemon and rules can now specify a send_destination_prefix attribute, which is like a combination of send_destination and the arg0namespace keyword in match rules. See 1.13.12 release notes for more details • The dbus-daemon now filters the messages that it relays, removing header fields that it does not understand. Clients must not rely on this behaviour unless they have confirmed that they are connected to a suitable message bus implementation, for example by querying its Features property. • The dbus-daemon now emits a signal, ActivatableServicesChanged, when the list of activatable services may have changed. Support for this signal can be discovered by querying the Features property. • It is now possible to disable traditional (non-systemd) service activation at build-time (Autotools: --disable-traditional-activation, CMake: -DENABLE_TRADITIONAL_ACTIVATION=OFF). See 1.13.10 release notes for details. • The API reference manual can be built as a Qt compiled help file if qhelpgenerator(-qt5) is available. See 1.13.16 release notes for details. Miscellaneous behaviour changes: • When using the "user bus" (--enable-user-session), put the dbus-daemon in the session slice • Several environment variables set by systemd are no longer passed on to activated services • If the dbus-daemon is compiled for Linux with systemd support, it now informs systemd that it is ready for use via the sd_notify() mechanism • Tarball releases no longer contain pre-2007 changelogs and are now compressed with xz, making them around 35% smaller. Changes since 1.13.22 --------------------- • On Windows, consistently use msvcrt.dll-style printf formats, fixing builds with mingw-w64 8.0.0 (dbus#380, Simon McVittie) • Fix some broken links in the API design document (dbus!257, Michael Nosthoff) • CI updates · Enable -Werror for the CMake builds · Use https to download MSYS packages · Use Debian 11 for most builds · Stop testing on Debian 9, which is EOL · Stop testing on Ubuntu 16.04, which is EOL · Remove workarounds for missing/outdated packages in Debian 8, Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04 (dbus#380, dbus!260; Simon McVittie) dbus 1.13.22 (2022-02-23) ========================= This is a release candidate for a new dbus 1.14.x stable branch. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.38: · Add ActivatableServicesChanged signal and feature flag (dbus#376, Ralf Habacker) · Document * as optionally-escaped in D-Bus addresses, matching the implementation (dbus!248, Kir Kolyshkin) • Emit the new ActivatableServicesChanged signal when configuration and/or activatable services are reloaded (dbus#376, Ralf Habacker) • Add an XML catalog file for the DTDs we install (dbus!202, Jan Tojnar) Bug fixes: • On Linux, when using traditional (non-systemd) service activation, don't log warnings about failing to reset OOM score adjustment if the process is already more susceptible to the OOM killer, as user processes usually are with systemd ≥ 250. (dbus#374, Simon McVittie) • On Linux, when using traditional (non-systemd) system bus activation, reset the OOM score adjustment to 0 as intended. If the system dbus-daemon is protected from the OOM killer, this avoids that protection unintentionally being inherited by every system service. (dbus#378, Simon McVittie) • Fix a code path that could result in a crash on out-of-memory (dbus#246, Marc-André Lureau) • Fix compilation if embedded tests are enabled but verbose mode and stats are both disabled (Marc-André Lureau) • CMake: Improve support for Windows with MSVC and add CI coverage (dbus!218, Marc-André Lureau) • CMake: Improve Docbook documentation-generation (dbus#377, Ralf Habacker) • On Linux, fix a race condition in the integration test for transient services (Debian#1005889, dbus!256; Simon McVittie) dbus 1.13.20 (2021-12-17) ========================= The “not how anyone wanted to learn the Greek alphabet” release. Dependencies: • Building using CMake now requires CMake 3.4. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.37: · Update recommendations for DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 timeouts (dbus!171, Simon McVittie) · Clarify padding requirements for arrays and variants (dbus!203, Zeeshan Ali) · Describe where the interoperable machine ID comes from (dbus!198, Thomas Kluyver) · Clarify use of dictionary (array of dict-entry) types (dbus#347, Ralf Habacker) • When using the "user bus" (--enable-user-session), put the dbus-daemon in the session slice (dbus!219, David Redondo) Feature removal: • Disable the experimental Containers1 interface that was added in 1.13.0. It is incomplete and not ready for production use, so we're disabling it in preparation for a new 1.14.x stable branch; the code remains present and will be re-enabled later, but there is no longer a build-time configuration option to enable it. (dbus!236, Simon McVittie) Bug fixes: • Avoid malloc() after fork on non-GNU libc (dbus!181, Jean-Louis Fuchs) • Don't return successfully from RemoveMatch if the match rule didn't exist (dbus#351, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, fix a race condition where dbus-run-session could start the wrapped application before the dbus-daemon was ready (dbus#297, Ralf Habacker) • Fix build with clang 13 by using Standard C offsetof where available (dbus!237, Simon McVittie) • Fix build of tests on FreeBSD (dbus!167, Simon McVittie) • Various CMake build improvements (dbus#310, dbus!213, dbus#319, dbus!217, dbus#346, dbus#356; Ralf Habacker) • Set IMPORTED_IMPLIB property in CMake metadata installed via Autotools with mingw toolchain (dbus!172, Julien Schueller) • Make documentation build more reproducible (dbus!189, dbus!238; Arnout Engelen, Simon McVittie) • On Unix, make X11 autolaunch cope with slashes in DISPLAY (dbus#8, dbus#311; William Earley) • Don't try to raise RLIMIT_NOFILE beyond OPEN_MAX on macOS (dbus#309, William Earley) • Improve SELinux audit messages (dbus!173, Chris PeBenito) • Validate various strings in dbus-send to avoid client-side assertion failures on invalid input (dbus#338, Simon McVittie) • Fix a memory leak in a unit test (dbus!208, David King) • In Autotools builds, use pkg-config in preference to AC_PATH_XTRA (dbus!212, Scott Hamilton) • On Windows, prevent (theoretical?) stack buffer overflow with very long paths (dbus!221, Ralf Habacker) • Fix build with newer mingw compilers (dbus#355, Ralf Habacker) • Various Windows error-handling fixes (dbus!229, dbus#357, dbus#279, dbus#360, dbus#365; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Clearer diagnostics when tests are skipped (dbus#363, Simon McVittie) • CI improvements (dbus#318, dbus!197, dbus!187, dbus!196, dbus!201, dbus#359; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker, Arnout Engelen, Marc-André Lureau) • Typo fixes, etc. (dbus!183, dbus!182; Chigozirim Chukwu, Samy Mahmoudi) dbus 1.13.18 (2020-07-02) ========================= The “carnivorous border” release. Maybe security fixes: • On Unix, avoid a use-after-free if two usernames have the same numeric uid. In older versions this could lead to a crash (denial of service) or other undefined behaviour, possibly including incorrect authorization decisions if is used. Like Unix filesystems, D-Bus' model of identity cannot distinguish between users of different names with the same numeric uid, so this configuration is not advisable on systems where D-Bus will be used. Thanks to Daniel Onaca. (dbus#305, dbus!166, CVE-2020-35512; Simon McVittie) Other fixes: • On Solaris and its derivatives, if a cmsg header is truncated, ensure that we do not overrun the buffer used for fd-passing, even if the kernel tells us to. (dbus#304, dbus!165; Andy Fiddaman) • When built with CMake, use GNUInstallDirs' special-cases for prefixes /, /usr and /opt/* (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker) • When built with CMake on Linux, allow systemd-specific features to be enabled, for feature parity with Autotools (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker) • When built with CMake, install the same example files as with Autotools (dbus!155, Ralf Habacker) • Correct the doc-comment for DBUS_ERROR_SPAWN_NO_MEMORY (dbus!163, Marc-André Lureau) dbus 1.13.16 (2020-06-02) ========================= The “ominous mushroom hat” release. Denial of service fixes: • CVE-2020-12049: If a message contains more file descriptors than can be sent, close those that did get through before reporting error. Previously, a local attacker could cause the system dbus-daemon (or another system service with its own DBusServer) to run out of file descriptors, by repeatedly connecting to the server and sending fds that would get leaked. Thanks to Kevin Backhouse of GitHub Security Lab. (dbus#294, GHSL-2020-057; Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • The API reference manual can be built as a Qt compiled help file if qhelpgenerator(-qt5) is available. This is controlled by --enable-qt-help and --with-qchdir in the Autotools build, or -DENABLE_QT_HELP and -DINSTALL_QCH_DIR in CMake. (dbus!150, Ralf Habacker) Fixes: • When built for Windows, return all autolaunch error information in the DBusError rather than printing some of it to stderr (dbus#191, dbus!131; Ralf Habacker) • When built for Windows, don't truncate long log messages (dbus!134, Ralf Habacker) • When built using CMake for a Unix platform, dbus-cleanup-sockets and dbus-uuidgen are now included (dbus!154, Ralf Habacker) • When built for Windows with verbose mode enabled, don't print debugging messages related to poll() emulation into a fixed-size buffer that could overflow (dbus!125, Ralf Habacker) • Adjust .desktop file parser to avoid a Coverity false positive (dbus!146, Coverity CID 354884; Ralf Habacker) • Print shell-test diagnostics to stderr, avoiding warnings or errors from strict TAP parsers (dbus!157, Félix Piédallu) Tests and CI enhancements: • When the CI cross-builds Windows binaries on Linux, run unit tests using Wine (dbus#296, dbus!158; Ralf Habacker) • Really build x86_64 Windows binaries in Gitlab-CI, instead of building i686 binaries a second time (Ralf Habacker) • When tests will be run using Wine, use STABS debug symbol format so that Wine can display backtraces (dbus#133, dbus!104; Ralf Habacker) dbus 1.13.14 (2020-04-21) ========================= The “mystery allium” release. Dependencies: • On Unix platforms, if getpwnam_r() and getgrnam_r() are implemented, they must be POSIX-conformant. The non-POSIX signature seen in ancient Solaris versions will no longer work. (dbus!11, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.36: · Fix a typo in an annotated hexdump of part of a message (dbus!152, Zygmunt Krynicki) • On Linux, use getrandom(2) in preference to /dev/urandom (dbus!147, Natanael Copa) • Add a --sender option to dbus-send, which requests a name and holds it until the signal has been sent. (dbus!116, Christopher Morin) Fixes: • Fix a crash when the dbus-daemon is terminated while one or more monitors are active (dbus#291, dbus!140; Simon McVittie) • Fix several test failures if the build-time tests were run as uid 0. Note that running the tests with elevated privileges is likely to be insecure, and should only be attempted in an expendable container or virtual machine. (dbus!117, Simon McVittie) • Fix an assertion failure if a client encounters an out-of-memory condition while sending its response to the "OK" authentication message, and processing of the "OK" message is subsequently retried when more memory is available (dbus!119, Simon McVittie) • Don't leak struct addrinfo if we run out of memory during a TCP connect() (dbus!143, dbus!144, Coverity CID 354880; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • On Linux with SELinux, don't assume that the system policy has the "dbus" security class or the associated AV (dbus#198, dbus!128; Laurent Bigonville) • Handle dbus_connection_set_change_sigpipe() in a thread-safe way (dbus!132; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) • On Unix, use POSIX in preference to (dbus!148, Natanael Copa) • When building with CMake, cope with libX11 in a non-standard location (dbus!129, Tuomo Rinne) • On Windows with verbose mode enabled and outputting to the debug port, use a dynamically-allocated buffer to avoid potential stack buffer overflows in long messages (dbus#45, dbus!133; Ralf Habacker) • The dbus-send(1) man page now documents --bus and --peer instead of the old --address synonym for --peer, which has been deprecated since the introduction of --bus and --peer in 1.7.6 (fd.o #48816, dbus!115; Chris Morin) • Fix a wrong environment variable name in dbus-daemon(1) (dbus#275, dbus!122; Mubin, Philip Withnall) • Fix formatting of dbus_message_append_args example (dbus!126, Felipe Franciosi) Internal changes: • Move more test-only code from dbus/ to tests/ (dbus!120, dbus!121, dbus!153; Simon McVittie) • Improve diagnostics if memory or fd leaks are detected (dbus!118, dbus!120; Simon McVittie) • Move from Debian 9 to Debian 10 for most continuous integration jobs (dbus!151, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, improve embedded version information (dbus!136, dbus!138, dbus!139; Ralf Habacker) • Indentation fixes (dbus!149, Taras Zaporozhets) dbus 1.13.12 (2019-06-11) ========================= The “patio squirrel” release. Security fixes: • CVE-2019-12749: Do not attempt to carry out DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication for identities that differ from the user running the DBusServer. Previously, a local attacker could manipulate symbolic links in their own home directory to bypass authentication and connect to a DBusServer with elevated privileges. The standard system and session dbus-daemons in their default configuration were immune to this attack because they did not allow DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, but third-party users of DBusServer such as Upstart could be vulnerable. Thanks to Joe Vennix of Apple Information Security. (dbus#269, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • dbus-daemon and rules can now specify a send_destination_prefix attribute, which is like a combination of send_destination and the arg0namespace keyword in match rules: a rule with send_destination_prefix="com.example.Foo" matches messages sent to any destination that is in the queue to own well-known names like com.example.Foo or com.example.Foo.A.B (but not com.example.Foobar). (dbus!85, Adrian Szyndela) dbus 1.13.10 (2019-05-13) ========================= The “engineering brick” release. Dependencies: • GLib >= 2.38 is required if full test coverage is enabled (reduced from 2.40 in dbus 1.12.x.) Deprecations: • Third-party software should install default dbus policies for the system bus into ${datadir}/dbus-1/system.d (this has been supported since dbus 1.10, released in August 2015). Installing default dbus policies in ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d is now considered to be deprecated. Policy files in ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d continue to be read, but this directory should only be used by system administrators wishing to override the default policies. The ${datadir} applicable to dbus is usually /usr/share and the ${sysconfdir} is usually /etc. • A similar pattern applies to the session bus policies in session.d. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.35: · Add UnixGroupIDs to GetConnectionCredentials() (dbus#196, dbus!105; Matthijs van Duin) · Remove some redundancies from the spec for interface names (dbus!102, Felipe Gasper) • Raise soft fd limit to match hard limit, even if unprivileged. This makes session buses with many clients, or with clients that make heavy use of fd-passing, less likely to suffer from fd exhaustion. (dbus!103, Simon McVittie) • On Linux 4.13 or later when built against a suitable glibc version, GetConnectionCredentials() now includes UnixGroupIDs, the effective group IDs of the initiator of the connection, taken from SO_PEERGROUPS. (dbus#196, dbus!105; Matthijs van Duin) • Embedded/special-purpose builds of dbus can now be configured with --disable-traditional-activation, to disable services being launched as a subprocess of the dbus-daemon. This allows the system dbus-daemon to be run in a more tightly restricted security profile (an example "drop-in" for systemd is provided). If systemd support is enabled, then services with a SystemdService configured can still be activated in these builds, via IPC to systemd. Otherwise, services will not be activatable at all. Please note that this option is not suitable for general-purpose Linux distributions that are intended to support running third-party D-Bus services. (dbus!107, Topi Miettinen) • Move CMake build system to top level, matching normal practice for CMake projects (dbus!84, Ralf Habacker) • Reformat CMake files (dbus#252, dbus!82, dbus!91; Ralf Habacker) • Avoid GLib 2.40 dependencies (dbus!79, Ralf Habacker) • Officially deprecate packaged XML policies in ${sysconfdir}, and document how to install system services correctly (dbus!76, Simon McVittie) • Add AddressSanitizer and ubsan support (dbus!57, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • If a privileged dbus-daemon has a hard fd limit greater than 64K, don't reduce it to 64K, ensuring that we can put back the original fd limits when carrying out traditional (non-systemd) activation. This fixes a regression with systemd >= 240 in which system services inherited dbus-daemon's hard and soft limit of 64K fds, instead of the intended soft limit of 1K and hard limit of 512K or 1M. (dbus!103, Debian#928877; Simon McVittie) • Fix build failures caused by an AX_CODE_COVERAGE API change in newer autoconf-archive versions (dbus#249, dbus!88; Simon McVittie) • Fix build failures with newer autoconf-archive versions that include AX_-prefixed shell variable names (dbus#249, dbus!86; Simon McVittie) • Avoid possible memory corruption in certain DBusHashTableIter use patterns, which in practice were never used (dbus!44, Simon McVittie) • Avoid a test failure on Linux when built in a container as uid 0, but without the necessary privileges to increase resource limits (dbus!58, Debian #908092; Simon McVittie) • Don't overwrite PKG_CONFIG_PATH and related environment variables when the pkg-config-based version of DBus1Config is used in a CMake project (dbus#267, dbus!96; Clemens Lang) • In CMake builds, respect GNUInstallDirs variables (dbus!77, Ralf Habacker) • In CMake builds, don't rebuild documentation every time (dbus!94, Ralf Habacker) • In CMake builds for Windows, don't require libiconv (dbus#262, dbus!100; Ralf Habacker) • Fix intermittent build failures with parallel CMake (dbus#266, dbus!113; Simon McVittie) • Don't assume we can set permissions on a directory, for the benefit of MSYS and Cygwin builds (dbus#216, dbus!110; Simon McVittie) • Avoid test failures with non-trivial NSS modules (dbus#256, dbus!93; Simon McVittie) • Fix test failures in test-syslog and test-sysdeps under Windows (dbus#238, dbus#243, dbus!61, dbus!62; Simon McVittie) • Ensure that CTest build-time tests on Windows use the just-built libdbus-1-3.dll (dbus!83, Ralf Habacker) • Don't take so long to run test-refs on Windows (dbus#244, dbus!65; Ralf Habacker) • Fix memory leaks in tests (dbus!68, Simon McVittie) • Avoid casting user-supplied pointers to DBusBasicValue *, which is formally undefined behaviour (dbus!69, Simon McVittie) • Fix a non-exploitable stack array overrun in dbus-run-session on Windows (Ralf Habacker) Tests and CI enhancements: • Verify that the result of an Autotools `make dist` can be used for a successful CMake build (dbus#255, dbus!87; Simon McVittie) • Rewrite Python tests into C to reduce circular dependencies and facilitate use of AddressSanitizer (dbus!37, Simon McVittie) • Refactor tests to extract most of their code from the bus/ and dbus/ directories, and break them up into smaller modules (dbus#223, dbus#240, dbus!1, dbus!99, dbus!73, dbus!74, dbus!75; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) • Do CI builds in a more minimal environment (dbus!63, Simon McVittie) • Improve test coverage with CMake (dbus#135, dbus!23; Ralf Habacker) • Avoid firewall exception requests when running build-time tests on Windows (dbus!64, Ralf Habacker) • Allow use of Wine to run cross-compiled Windows tests on Linux (dbus!60, Ralf Habacker) Internal changes: • Rename DBusSocketSet to the more accurate DBusPollableSet (dbus!81, Ralf Habacker) • Refactor Windows implementation of dbus-spawn (dbus!80; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Delete unused code from userdb module (dbus!92, Simon McVittie) • Remove unnecessary _dbus_threads_init_debug() (dbus!72, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.13.8 (2018-12-04) ======================== The “demanding dragon” release. dbus version control is now hosted on freedesktop.org's Gitlab installation, and bug reports and feature requests have switched from Bugzilla bugs (indicated by "fd.o #nnn") to Gitlab issues ("dbus#nnn") and merge requests ("dbus!nnn"). See README and CONTRIBUTING.md for more details. Dependencies: • dbus now requires at least a basic level of support for C99 variadic macros, as implemented in gcc >= 3, all versions of Clang, and MSVC >= 2005. In practice this requirement has existed since version 1.9.2, but it is now official. • dbus now requires a C99-compatible va_copy() macro (or a __va_copy() macro with the same behaviour), except when building for Windows using MSVC and CMake. • Building documentation using CMake now requires xsltproc, Docbook DTDs (for example docbook-xml on Debian derivatives), and Docbook XSLT stylesheets (for example docbook-xsl on Debian derivatives). Using KDE's meinproc4 documentation processor is no longer supported. Enhancements: • Rewrite CONTRIBUTING.md to reflect the current setup (dbus!8, Simon McVittie) • D-Bus Specification v0.34: · Fix an incorrect AddMatch() call in sample code (dbus#221, dbus!56; Philip Withnall) • Tarball releases no longer contain pre-2007 changelogs and are now compressed with xz, so they should be somewhat smaller (fd.o #107630; Francesco Turco, Simon McVittie) • Reference the freedesktop.org Code of Conduct (Simon McVittie) • Build an implementation of dbus-run-session for Windows (dbus#135, dbus!22; Ralf Habacker) • On Linux with SELinux, use avc_open() and monitor the AVC netlink fd in the main event loop, instead of using the deprecated avc_init() and a thread (dbus#134, dbus!31; Laurent Bigonville) • On Linux with SELinux, use the SELINUX_CB_POLICYRELOAD callback to detect policy reloads, instead of monitoring the access vector cache with AVC_CALLBACK_RESET (dbus#134, dbus!31; Laurent Bigonville) • Avoid double slashes in pkg-config paths (dbus!30, Ralf Habacker) • Improve test coverage and clean up dead code (fd.o #107739, dbus#222; Simon McVittie) • Allow --enable-relocation in combination with absolute paths for --exec-prefix, --libdir (fd.o #107662, Simon McVittie) • Don't run a test program to check how to copy a va_list, which is awkward for cross-compiling; instead require that va_copy() or __va_copy() exists, except in older MSVC versions where we already know that simple assignment is enough (dbus!35, Simon McVittie) • Simplify configure checks (dbus!10, Simon McVittie) • Improve CMake build system parity with Autotools, including: · Detect inotify, prctl() and getpwnam_r() correctly on Linux · Use xsltproc instead of meinproc4 for documentation (dbus#57, dbus#117, dbus#193, dbus#227, dbus!18, dbus!39; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Stop the dbus-daemon leaking memory (an error message) if delivering the message that triggered auto-activation is forbidden. This is technically a denial of service because the dbus-daemon will run out of memory eventually, but it's a very slow and noisy one, because all the rejected messages are also very likely to have been logged to the system log, and its scope is typically limited by the finite number of activatable services available. (dbus#234, Simon McVittie) • Remove __attribute__((__malloc__)) attribute on dbus_realloc(), which does not meet the criteria for that attribute in gcc 4.7+, potentially leading to miscompilation (fd.o #107741, Simon McVittie) • Parse section/group names in .service files according to the syntax from the Desktop Entry Specification: · reject control characters and non-ASCII in section/group names · backslash escapes are not interpreted in section/group names (dbus#208; David King, Simon McVittie) • Always use select()-based poll() emulation on Darwin-based OSs (macOS, etc.) and on Interix, similar to what libcurl does (dbus#232, dbus!19; Simon McVittie) • Avoid undefined integer shifts when generating random tokens for the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 mechanism (dbus!45, Simon McVittie) • Document the max-connections-per-user limit as unimplemented on Windows, and don't fail tests when it isn't enforced there (dbus!54, Simon McVittie) • Avoid unnecessary file descriptors being inherited by dbus-daemon and dbus-launch subprocesses (dbus!50, Simon McVittie) • Fix some minor memory leaks (fd.o #107320, dbus!41, dbus!42; Simon McVittie) • Don't fail tests if GetConnectionUnixProcessID() succeeds on Windows, which it normally will since 1.7.x (dbus#239, dbus!55; Simon McVittie) • Extend a test timeout to avoid spurious failures in CI (dbus!26, Simon McVittie) • Avoid undefined signed integer operations when generating random message content during regression tests (dbus!46, Simon McVittie) • Fix build warnings with recent gcc (dbus#208, dbus#225; David King) • Fix build warnings without libX11 (dbus#228, Simon McVittie) • Fix whitespace and error behaviour for _dbus_command_from_pid() (dbus#222, dbus!28; Simon McVittie) • Fix a race condition in the containers test (dbus!47, Simon McVittie) • When built with CMake, install dbus-daemon-launch-helper to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR}, analogous to ${libexecdir} in Autotools (dbus!9, Simon McVittie) • When built with CMake and disabling tests, still install dbus-daemon-launch-helper (dbus!9, Simon McVittie) Tests and CI: • Add Travis-CI builds for 64-bit Windows using mingw-w64 (fd.o #105662, Ralf Habacker) • Add Gitlab-CI integration (fd.o #108177, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.13.6 (2018-08-02) ======================== The “vine cutting” release. Fixes: • Prevent reading up to 3 bytes beyond the end of a truncated message. This could in principle be an information leak or denial of service on the system bus, but is not believed to be exploitable to crash the system bus or leak interesting information in practice. (fd.o #107332, Simon McVittie) • Fix build with gcc 8 -Werror=cast-function-type (fd.o #107349, Simon McVittie) • Fix warning from gcc 8 about suspicious use of strncpy() when populating struct sockaddr_un (fd.o #107350, Simon McVittie) • Fix a minor memory leak when a DBusServer listens on a new address (fd.o #107194, Simon McVittie) • Fix an invalid NULL argument to rmdir() if a nonce-tcp DBusServer runs out of memory (fd.o #107194, Simon McVittie) • Fix various memory leaks during unit tests (fd.o #107194, Simon McVittie) • Don't use misleading errno-derived error names if getaddrinfo() or getnameinfo() fails with a code other than EAI_SYSTEM (fd.o #106395, Simon McVittie) • Skip tests that require working TCP if we are in a container environment where 127.0.0.1 cannot be resolved (fd.o #106812, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.13.4 (2018-04-30) ======================== The “parsimonious topping” release. Dependencies: • All Windows builds now require Windows Vista or later. (Note that we do not recommend or support use of dbus on operating systems outside their vendor's security support lifetime, such as Vista.) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification v0.33 · Be clearer about the security properties of TCP transports, which have no integrity or confidentiality protection and so should not normally be used, except via the loopback interface on Windows (fd.o #106004, Simon McVittie) • On Linux 4.13 or later, now uses the SO_PEERGROUPS credentials-passing socket option to get the effective group IDs of the initiator of the connection. On platforms where that socket option is not available, dbus-daemon continues to look up the connection's user ID in the system user and group databases and assume that it has the groups that would have been granted by initgroups(). (fd.o #103737, #97821; Simon McVittie) • If the dbus-daemon is compiled for Linux with systemd support, it now informs systemd that it is ready for use via the sd_notify() mechanism. (fd.o #104641; Michal Sekletar, Simon McVittie) • Several environment variables set by systemd are no longer passed on to activated services (fd.o #104641, Simon McVittie) • Failing to bind a TCP socket to an address produces better error messages. (fd.o #61922; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) • Windows builds now set the SO_REUSEADDR and TCP_NODELAY options on TCP sockets (as Unix builds already did), which should improve robustness and performance (fd.o #61922, Ralf Habacker) • Windows executables built with cmake have version information. When building for Windows with Autotools, only libdbus-1-3.dll has version information, matching previous behaviour with cmake. (fd.o #103387, Ralf Habacker) • The Devhelp documentation index is now in version 2 format (fd.o #106186, Simon McVittie) • Give the dbus-daemon man page some scarier warnings about and non-local TCP, which are insecure and should not be used, particularly for the standard system and session buses (fd.o #106004, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Listening on TCP sockets copes better with IPv6 being disabled (fd.o #61922; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Fix installation of Ducktype documentation with newer yelp-build versions (fd.o #106171, Simon McVittie) • Fix printf formats for pointer-sized integers on 64-bit Windows (fd.o #105662, Ralf Habacker) Internal changes: • The _DBUS_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro has been replaced with _DBUS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which is effective with gcc, clang and MSVC (with cl.exe /analyze). Note that for MSVC compatibility, it must appear before the return type in function declarations, whereas the older macro could also have appeared after the arguments. (fd.o #105460; Daniel Wendt, Ralf Habacker) dbus 1.13.2 (2018-03-01) ======================== The “can break a man's arm” release. Enhancements: • When a container manager creates an extra server at runtime, services can now request that messages from connections to that server are tagged with the container instance ID, providing a fast-path for identifying such connections. (fd.o #101899, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Increase system dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit before it drops privileges, because it won't have permission afterwards. This fixes a regression in dbus 1.10.18 and 1.11.0 which made the standard system bus more susceptible to deliberate or accidental denial of service. (fd.o #105165, David King) dbus 1.13.0 (2018-02-08) ======================== The “Citispeed Eco 75” release. This is a new development branch for the adventurous, and comes with a risk of regressions. OS distributions should stay with the 1.12.x branch, unless they can commit to following the 1.13.x branch until it reaches a 1.14.0 stable release at an unspecified point in the future. In particular, the new Containers API is subject to change and shouldn't be enabled in distributions yet, even those aimed at early adopters (hello, Arch Linux). Behaviour changes: • DBusServer (and hence the dbus-daemon) no longer accepts usernames (login names) for the recommended EXTERNAL authentication mechanism, only numeric user IDs or the empty string. This is not believed to affect real D-Bus clients in practice, because most D-Bus clients send numeric user IDs: the only known client implementation that sends usernames is dbus-java, and that only when run on a system where the com.sun.security.auth.module.UnixSystem.getUid() method is not available. (fd.o #104588, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification v0.32 · Deprecate hyphen/minus in reversed domain names, recommending underscores instead. Recommend prepending an underscore to domain components that start with a digit, which would not be allowed. (fd.o #103914, Simon McVittie) · Clarify how the SASL authentication handshake works (fd.o #104224, Simon McVittie) · Recommend that the message bus should remove message header fields that it does not understand. The new item "HeaderFiltering" in the message bus' Features property indicates that it promises to do so. (fd.o #100317, Simon McVittie) • Add experimental support for creating extra servers at runtime, to be used by app containers like Flatpak or Snap. This API is still subject to change and is not compiled in by default. (fd.o #101354, Simon McVittie) • Improve automated test logging (fd.o #103601, Simon McVittie) • The dbus-daemon now filters the messages that it relays, removing header fields that it does not understand. Clients must not rely on this behaviour unless they have confirmed that they are connected to a suitable message bus implementation, for example by querying its Features property. (fd.o #100317, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • When iterating the DBusConnection while blocking on a pending call, don't wait for I/O if that pending call already has a result; and make sure that whether it has a result is propagated in a thread-safe way. This prevents certain multi-threaded calling patterns from blocking until their timeout even when they should have succeeded sooner. (fd.o #102839; Manish Narang, Michael Searle) • Do not look up client-supplied strings in the system user database (NSS or equivalent) when using the recommended EXTERNAL auth mechanism. This could previously lead to a deadlock or timeout in the presence of slow or network-dependent NSS modules. (fd.o #104588, Simon McVittie) • Report the correct error if OOM is reached while trying to listen on a TCP socket (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Fix a crash and an assertion failure in the server side of the nonce-tcp: transport under error conditions (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Fix assertion failures in recovery from OOM while setting up a DBusServer (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Don't leak a file descriptor if setting up a launchd server fails (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Add a missing space to a warning message (fd.o #103729, Thomas Zajic) • Fix some memory leaks in automated tests (fd.o #103600, Simon McVittie) • Expand ${bindir} correctly when pkg-config is asked for dbus_daemondir (fd.o #104265, Benedikt Heine) • On Linux systems with systemd < 237, if ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus doesn't exist, create it before trying to create ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus/machine-id (fd.o #104577, Chris Lesiak) • Fix escaping in dbus-api-design document (fd.o #104925, Philip Withnall) Internal changes: • Harden the nonce-tcp: transport against resource leaks and use-after-free (fd.o #103597, Simon McVittie) • Make _DBUS_STRING_DEFINE_STATIC more consistent with _dbus_string_init_const() (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Add _DBUS_STRING_INIT_INVALID, analogous to NULL, and use it to simplify error unwinding code paths (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Make the behaviour of _dbus_string_init_const()/_dbus_string_free() consistent with _dbus_string_init()/_dbus_string_free(): it now clears the string to _DBUS_STRING_INIT_INVALID, whereas previously it left the string untouched (fd.o #89104, Simon McVittie) • Remove automated test data for wire protocol version 0, which has not been supported since 2005 (fd.o #103758, Simon McVittie) • Simplify method calls in automated tests (fd.o #103600, Simon McVittie) dbus 1.12.2 (2017-11-13) ======================== The “spider pumpkin” release. Enhancements: • Log a warning if a new connection cannot be accepted due to an out-of-memory condition or failure to identify its AppArmor or SELinux context (fd.o #103592, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Make use of $(MKDIR_P) compatible with install-sh, fixing build when a GNU-compatible `mkdir -p` is not available (fd.o #103521, ilovezfs) • When building for Windows with Autotools, avoid `echo -e`, fixing cross-compilation on non-GNU platforms like macOS (fd.o #103493, Tony Theodore) • Fix crashes in the server side of the nonce-tcp: transport under various error conditions. This transport should normally only be used on Windows, where AF_UNIX sockets are unavailable; the unix: transport is the only one recommended for production use on Unix platforms. (fd.o #103597, Simon McVittie) Internal changes: • Improve test coverage on Travis-CI (Simon McVittie) dbus 1.12.0 (2017-10-30) ======================== The “gingerbread skull” release. 1.12.x is a new stable branch, recommended for use in OS distributions. Summary of major changes between 1.10.x and 1.12.0 -------------------------------------------------- Dependencies: • Expat >= 2.1.0 is required. • GLib >= 2.40 is required if full test coverage is enabled. • [Linux] libselinux >= 2.0.86 is required if SELinux support is enabled. • [Unix] dbus now requires an that defines C99 constants such as PRId64 and PRIu64, except when building for Windows. • [Autotools] Building from git (but not from tarballs) with Autotools now requires macros from the GNU Autoconf Archive. • [CMake] Builds done using CMake now require CMake 3.0.2. Build-time configuration changes: • Expat is now found using pkg-config. See the release notes for 1.11.14. • The --disable-compiler-optimisations and --enable-compiler-coverage options no longer exist. See the release notes for 1.11.4 and 1.11.8. • [Unix] The --enable-abstract-sockets and --disable-abstract-sockets options no longer exist. See the release notes for 1.11.20. • [Unix] Flag files in /var/run/console/${username} are no longer checked for at_console by default. See the release notes for 1.11.18. • [Unix, Cygwin] Init scripts are no longer provided by upstream dbus, and packagers will now need to add these downstream (most already do). See the release notes for 1.11.18. • [Unix] The process ID file no longer has a different default location on Red Hat derivatives. See the release notes for 1.11.18. • [Unix] ${runstatedir} is now independent of ${localstatedir} with recent Autotools versions. See the release notes for 1.11.16. • [Windows] The WINDRES variable is no longer used. See the release notes for 1.11.22. Deprecations: • Eavesdropping is officially deprecated in favour of BecomeMonitor. See the release notes for spec version 0.31 (in dbus 1.11.14). • [Unix] Flag files in /var/run/console/${username} are deprecated. See the release notes for 1.11.18. New APIs: • and rules in dbus-daemon configuration can now include send_broadcast="true", send_broadcast="false", max_unix_fds="N", min_unix_fds="N" (for some integer N). See the release notes for 1.11.18. • dbus_try_get_local_machine_id() is like dbus_get_local_machine_id(), but returns a DBusError. • New APIs around DBusMessageIter to simplify cleanup. See the release notes for 1.11.16. • The message bus daemon now implements the standard Introspectable, Peer and Properties interfaces. See the release notes for dbus 1.11.14 and spec version 0.31. • DTDs for introspection XML and bus configuration are installed. • dbus can be compiled to be relocatable, making it more suitable for binary bundling with other software. On Windows, this is on by default. • [Unix] A new unix:dir=… address family resembles unix:tmpdir=… but never uses Linux abstract sockets, which is advantageous for containers. On non-Linux it is equivalent to unix:tmpdir=…. See the release notes for dbus 1.11.14 and spec version 0.31. • [Unix] New option "dbus-launch --exit-with-x11". • [Unix] Session managers can create transient .service files in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dbus-1/services. See the release notes for 1.11.12. • [Unix] A sysusers.d snippet can create the messagebus user on-demand. Miscellaneous behaviour changes: • [Unix] The session bus now logs to syslog if it was started by dbus-launch. • [Unix] Internal warnings are logged to syslog if configured. • [Unix] Exceeding an anti-DoS limit is logged to syslog if configured, or to stderr. Changes since 1.11.22 release candidate --------------------------------------- Standard stable-branch changes: • Disable warnings about use of deprecated functions (Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Don't distribute files generated by ./configure in the source tarball (fd.o #103420, Simon McVittie) Internal changes: • Remove some unused files from the git repository (fd.o #103420, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.22 (2017-10-23) ========================== The “fire surface” release. This is the first release-candidate for the 1.12.0 stable release. Build-time configuration changes: • When building for Windows with Autotools, setting the WINDRES variable no longer works to select a non-standard resource compiler. Use libtool's standard RC variable instead, for example "./configure RC=i686-w64-mingw32-windres" Dependencies: • Builds done using CMake now require CMake 3.0.2. Enhancements: • When building for Windows, improve quality of metadata in libdbus-1-3.dll (fd.o #103015, Ralf Habacker) Fixes: • Fix a typo "uint 16" in dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #103075, David King) • When building for Windows, libdbus-1-3.dll always includes version information. Previously, this was missing if using CMake and any non-MSVC compiler. (fd.o #103015, Ralf Habacker) • Fix the build with MSVC, which regressed with the #102558 fix in 1.11.20. (fd.o #102558, Ralf Habacker) Internal changes: • Simplify Windows resource embedding (fd.o #103015, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.20 (2017-10-03) == The “wraith stun” release. Build-time configuration changes: • The --enable-abstract-sockets and --disable-abstract-sockets options no longer exist. Support for Linux's abstract AF_UNIX sockets is now unconditionally enabled on Linux and disabled everywhere else. (fd.o #34905, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • Make slower tests less likely to time out, and improve diagnostics if tests do time out (fd.o #103009, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, don't compile an unused stub implementation of _dbus_set_signal_handler() (fd.o #103010, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Be more careful to save and restore errno in POSIX async signal handlers (fd.o #103010, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, embed a manifest in dbus-update-activation-environment.exe so that the heuristics used for UAC do not assume it needs elevated privileges due to its name containing "update" (fd.o #102558, Ralf Habacker) • On Windows with Automake, embed version information in libdbus-1, as was meant to happen in all versions since 2009 (fd.o #103015, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.18 (2017-09-25) == The “vampire conquistador” release. Build-time configuration changes: • By default, dbus-daemon on Unix no longer checks for flag files /var/run/console/${username} created by the obsolete pam_console and pam_foreground PAM modules when deciding whether ${username} is currently at the console. The old default behaviour can be restored by specifying --with-console-auth-dir=/var/run/console in the recommended Autotools build system, or -DDBUS_CONSOLE_AUTH_DIR=/var/run/console in CMake. This feature is now deprecated, and will be removed in dbus 1.13 unless feedback via fd.o #101629 indicates that this would be problematic. (fd.o #101629, Simon McVittie) • LSB-style init scripts for Red Hat and Slackware, and a non-LSB init script for Cygwin, are no longer provided in the upstream dbus source. We recommend that distributors who support non-systemd service management should maintain their own init scripts or other service manager integration as part of their downstream packaging, similar to the way Debian distributes a Debian-specific LSB init script for dbus. The systemd unit continues to be maintained as part of the upstream dbus source, because it receives regular testing and maintenance. (fd.o #101706, Simon McVittie) • The process ID file created by the system bus is no longer influenced by the --with-init-scripts=redhat configure option or the presence of /etc/redhat-release at build time. If your OS's init script or other service management relies on the Red Hat-style pid file, it can be restored by specifying --with-system-pid-file=/run/messagebus.pid at configure time or using the directive in bus configuration. Note that the upstream-supplied systemd unit runs dbus-daemon with the --nopidfile option, so it does not normally write a pid file, regardless of whether the OS is Red-Hat-derived or not. (fd.o #101706, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • and rules in dbus-daemon configuration can now include send_broadcast="true" or send_broadcast="false", which make the rule only match broadcast signals, or only match messages that are not broadcast signals, respectively. (fd.o #29853, Simon McVittie) • and rules can now be configured to apply only to messages with or without Unix file descriptors attached. This would typically be used in rules like these: but can also be used to set a nonzero upper limit on the number of file descriptors: (fd.o #101848, Simon McVittie) • On Unix platforms, the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication mechanism now respects the HOME environment variable on the client side, and on the server side when the uid attempting to connect is the same as the uid of the server. This allows the automated tests to pass in environments where the user's "official" home directory in /etc/passwd is nonexistent, such as Debian autobuilders. (fd.o #101960, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • When parsing dbus-daemon configuration, tell Expat not to use cryptographic-quality entropy as a salt for its hash tables: we trust the configuration files, so we are not concerned about algorithmic complexity attacks via hash table collisions. This prevents dbus-daemon --system from holding up the boot process (and causing early-boot system services like systemd, logind, networkd to time out) on entropy-starved embedded systems. (fd.o #101858, Simon McVittie) • Avoid a -Werror=declaration-after-statement build failure on Solaris (fd.o #102145, Alan Coopersmith) • On Unix platform, drop DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_INFO messages from LOG_NOTICE to LOG_INFO, matching how we use this log level in practice (fd.o #102686, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.16 (2017-07-27) == The “south facing garden” release. Build-time configuration changes: • The Autotools build system now supports varying ${runstatedir} independently of ${localstatedir}, if using an Autoconf version that has that feature; version 2.70 will eventually have this, but many Linux distributions add it to version 2.69 as a patch. A typical use is to set prefix=/usr, sysconfdir=/etc, localstatedir=/var and runstatedir=/run. (fd.o #101569, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • New APIs DBUS_MESSAGE_ITER_INIT_CLOSED, dbus_message_iter_init_closed() and dbus_message_iter_abandon_container_if_open() simplify the single-exit-point ("goto out") style of resource cleanup. The API documentation around DBusMessageIter and containers has also been clarified. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Fix the implementation of re-enabling a timeout (again) so that its countdown is always restarted as intended. (fd.o #95619, Michal Koutný) • Make the dbus-daemon's Properties interface, as introduced in 1.11.14, available to all users on the system bus (fd.o #101700, Simon McVittie) • dbus_message_iter_append_basic() no longer leaks memory if it fails to append a file descriptor to a message. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • dbus_message_iter_open_container() no longer leaks memory if it runs out of memory. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • dbus_message_append_args_valist() no longer leaks memory if given an unsupported type. This situation is still considered to be a programming error which needs to be corrected by the user of libdbus. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • dbus_message_iter_append_basic() and dbus_message_iter_open_container() will no longer report that their arguments were invalid if they run out of memory at exactly the wrong time. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • Ensure that tests fail if they would otherwise have tried to connect to the real session bus (fd.o #101698, Simon McVittie) • Make build-time tests cope with finding Python 3, but not Python 2 (fd.o #101716, Simon McVittie) Internal changes relevant to dbus developers: • DBusVariant is a new mechanism to copy single values from a message into a buffer without copying the entire message (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL has been replaced by DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_ERROR. Logging an ERROR message does not make the process exit; the caller is responsible for calling abort() or exit(), whichever is more appropriate. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) • Better test coverage (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.14 (2017-06-29) == The “irrational fear of bees” release. Dependencies: • Expat >= 2.1.0 is always required • libselinux >= 2.0.86 is required if SELinux support is enabled • GLib >= 2.40 is required if full test coverage is enabled Build-time configuration changes: • We now use pkg-config to find libexpat in Autotools builds. This requires Expat 2.1.0 (March 2012) or later. In particular, this should remove the need to configure with LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib on OpenBSD, which can itself cause compilation failures. As with all pkg-config-based configure checks, you can use PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/whatever/lib/pkgconfig to find expat.pc in a non-standard prefix, or EXPAT_CFLAGS="-I/whatever/include" and EXPAT_LIBS="-L/whatever/lib -lexpat" to avoid needing a .pc file at all. (fd.o #69801, Simon McVittie) • Similarly, we now use pkg-config to find libselinux. Version 2.0.86 is required due to the removal of explicit refcounting for SIDs. (fd.o #100912, Laurent Bigonville) Behaviour changes: • Previously, /etc/machine-id could be copied to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id as a side-effect of a sufficiently privileged process merely reading the machine ID. It is no longer copied as a side-effect of reading. Running dbus-uuidgen --ensure, which should be done after installing dbus, continues to copy /etc/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id if the former exists and the latter does not. (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie) • The undocumented Verbose interface, and the GetAllMatchRules method on the undocumented Stats interface, must now be used via the object path /org/freedesktop/DBus. Previously, they existed on all object paths. (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie) • AddMatch() with a match rule containing eavesdrop='true' will now fail unless called by either the same user as the dbus-daemon, or Unix uid 0 (root), matching the restrictions applied to the newer BecomeMonitor() method. On the session bus this has no practical effect. On the system bus this will prevent certain configurations that already did not work well in practice. (fd.o #101567, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.31 · Don't require implementation-specific search paths to be lowest priority · Correct regex syntax for optionally-escaped bytes in addresses so it includes hyphen-minus, forward slash and underscore as intended · Describe all message bus methods in the same section · Clarify the correct object path for method calls to the message bus (/org/freedesktop/DBus, DBUS_PATH_DBUS in the reference implementation) · Document that the message bus implements Introspectable, Peer and Properties · Add new Features and Interfaces properties for message bus feature-discovery · Add unix:dir=..., which resembles unix:tmpdir=... but never uses abstract sockets · Don't require eavesdrop='true' to be accepted from connections not sufficiently privileged to use it successfully · Formally deprecate eavesdropping in favour of BecomeMonitor (fd.o #99825, #100686, #100795, #101256, #101257, #101567; Simon McVittie, Tom Gundersen) • Implement the Properties and Peer interfaces in dbus-daemon (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie) • New function dbus_try_get_local_machine_id() is like dbus_get_local_machine_id(), but returning a DBusError. Other code that needs the machine ID will now report a recoverable error (instead of logging to stderr and aborting) if no machine ID is available. Generating a machine ID is still considered to be a required part of installing dbus correctly. (fd.o #13194, Simon McVittie) • Implement GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext("org.freedesktop.DBus") (fd.o #101315, Laurent Bigonville) • Avoid deprecated API calls when using SELinux (fd.o #100912, Laurent Bigonville) • Switch a test from the deprecated g_test_trap_fork() to g_test_trap_subprocess(), for Windows support and better robustness on Unix (fd.o #101362, Simon McVittie) • On systemd systems, if ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus/machine-id doesn't exist, instruct systemd-tmpfiles to make it a symbolic link to /etc/machine-id. This prevents the two files from going out of sync on stateless or live images without needing to run dbus-uuidgen, and supports older D-Bus implementations that do not necessarily read /etc/machine-id themselves. (fd.o #101570, Simon McVittie) • Implement unix:dir=..., which resembles unix:tmpdir=... but never uses abstract sockets. This is preferable when used with Linux containers. (fd.o #101567, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Fix a reference leak when blocking on a pending call on a connection that has been disconnected (fd.o #101481, Shin-ichi MORITA) • Don't put timestamps in the Doxygen-generated documentation, or hard-code the build directory into builds with embedded tests, for reproducible builds (fd.o #100692, Simon McVittie) • Fix some integration test issues (fd.o #100686, Simon McVittie) • Fix memory leaks in the tests (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie) • If we somehow get an autolaunch address with multiple semicolon-separated components, and they don't work, don't invalidly "pile up" errors (fd.o #101257, Simon McVittie) Documentation: • Update git URIs in HACKING document to sync up with cgit.freedesktop.org (fd.o #100715, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.12 (2017-04-07) == The “it's something humans do” release. Enhancements: • The session dbus-daemon now supports transient .service files in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dbus-1/services. Unlike the other standard service directories, this directory is not monitored with inotify or similar, and the service files must be named exactly ${bus_name}.service. (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie) • dbus can be configured with --enable-relocation when building with Autotools, or with -DDBUS_RELOCATABLE=ON when building with cmake, to make the pkg-config metadata relocatable. This is useful for non-standard prefixes, and in particular for Windows installations. However, it is not recommended for system-wide installations into /usr, because it interferes with pkg-config's ability to filter out compiler default linker directories. With Autotools, the default is --enable-relocation when building for Windows or --disable-relocation otherwise. With CMake, the default is -DDBUS_RELOCATABLE=ON. (fd.o #99721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Users of CMake ≥ 2.6 can now link to libdbus without providing their own FindDBus.cmake macros, whether dbus was compiled with Autotools or with CMake. See the end of README.cmake for more information. (fd.o #99721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Always read service file directories in the intended order (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie) • When tests are skipped, don't try to kill nonexistent process 0 (fd.o #99825, Simon McVittie) • Avoid valgrind false positives (fd.o #88808, Philip Withnall) • Fix a harmless read overflow and some memory leaks in a unit test (fd.o #100568, Philip Withnall) • Fix some typos in test code (fd.o #99999, Coverity #141876, #141877; Philip Withnall) • Clarify the roles of /etc/dbus-1/s*.d and /usr/share/dbus-1/s*.d in documentation (fd.o #99901, Philip Withnall) • Fix and enable compiler warnings related to -Wswitch (fd.o #98191; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie) • Fix writing off the end of a fd_set when testing with valgrind (fd.o #99839, Philip Withnall) D-Bus 1.11.10 (2017-02-16) == The “purple hair gives you telekinesis?” release. Dependencies: • AppArmor support requires at least libapparmor 2.8.95, reduced from 2.10 in previous versions. One test requires 2.10 and is skipped if building with an older version. Enhancements: • Do the Travis-CI build in Docker containers for Ubuntu LTS, Debian stable and Debian testing in addition to the older Ubuntu that is the default (fd.o #98889, Simon McVittie) • Avoid some deprecated CMake functions (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker) • Silence many -Wswitch-enum and -Wswitch-default warnings (fd.o #98191; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie) • Install a sysusers.d snippet so `dbus-daemon --system` can be used with an unpopulated /etc (fd.o #99162, Lennart Poettering) • Install pkg-config metadata on Unix even if building with CMake (fd.o #99752, Ralf Habacker) • Exclude auth mechanisms from REJECTED message if they are supported in the code but but configured to be disallowed (fd.o #99621, Ralf Habacker) Fixes: • Prevent symlink attacks in the nonce-tcp transport on Unix that could allow an attacker to overwrite a file named "nonce", in a directory that the user running dbus-daemon can write, with a random value known only to the user running dbus-daemon. This is unlikely to be exploitable in practice, particularly since the nonce-tcp transport is really only useful on Windows. On Unix systems we strongly recommend using only the unix: and systemd: transports, together with EXTERNAL authentication. These are the only transports and authentication mechanisms enabled by default. (fd.o #99828, Simon McVittie) • Avoid symlink attacks in the "embedded tests", which are not enabled by default and should never be enabled in production builds of dbus. (fd.o #99828, Simon McVittie) • Fix the implementation of re-enabling a timeout so that its countdown is restarted as intended, instead of continually decreasing. (fd.o #95619; Michal Koutný, Simon McVittie) • When receiving a message with file descriptors, do not start reading the beginning of the next message, so that only one such message is processed at a time. In conjunction with the fix for #95619 this means that processes sending many file descriptors, such as systemd-logind on a system that receives very rapid ssh connections, are not treated as abusive and kicked off the bus. Revert the previous workaround that special-cased uid 0. (fd.o #95263, LP#1591411; Simon McVittie) • Do not require TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP to be set when cross-compiling for Windows with CMake (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker) • Do not set Unix-specific variables when targeting Windows (fd.o #99586, Ralf Habacker) • Install Unix executables to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin as intended, not ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib (fd.o #99752, Ralf Habacker) • Use relative install locations in CMake on Unix to respect DESTDIR, and use GNU-style install layout (fd.o #99721, #99752; Ralf Habacker) • Install dbus-arch-deps.h correctly when using CMake (fd.o #99586, #99721; Ralf Habacker) • Improve argument validation for `dbus-test-tool spam` (ffd.o #99693, Coverity #54759; Philip Withnall) • Don't shift by a negative integer if a hash table becomes monstrously large (fd.o #99641, Coverity #54682; Philip Withnall) • Don't leak LSM label if dbus-daemon runs out of memory when dealing with a new connection (fd.o #99612, Coverity #141058; Philip Withnall) • Remove an unnecessary NULL check (fd.o #99642, Coverity #141062; Philip Withnall) • Improve error handling in unit tests and dbus-send (fd.o #99643, #99694, #99712, #99722, #99723, #99724, #99758, #99759, #99793, Coverity #54688, #54692, #54693, #54697, #54701, #54710, #54711, #54714, #54715, #54718, #54721, #54724, #54726, #54730, #54740, #54822, #54823, #54824, #54825; Philip Withnall) • Do not print verbose messages' timestamps to stderr if the actual message has been redirected to the Windows debug port (fd.o #99749, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.11.8 (2016-11-28) == The “panics in the face of breakfast foods” release. Build-time configuration: • The new --enable-debug configure option provides an easy way to enable debug symbols, disable optimization and/or enable profiling. • The --enable-compile-warnings configure option can be used to control compiler warnings. • The --disable-compiler-optimisations configure option is no longer supported. Use --enable-debug=yes or CFLAGS=-O0 instead. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.30 · Define the jargon term "activation" more clearly · Define the jargon term "auto-starting", which is one form of activation · Document the optional SystemdService key in service files · Use versioned interface and bus names in most examples · Clarify intended behaviour of Properties.GetAll (fd.o #36190, fd.o #98671; Philip Withnall, Simon McVittie) • Fix and enable a lot of compiler warnings to improve future code quality. This might incidentally also fix some environment variable accesses on OS X. · In particular, printf-style functions in the libdbus API are now annotated with __attribute__((__format__(__printf__, *, *))) when compiling with gcc or clang. This might make printf bugs in other software visible at compile time. (fd.o #97357, fd.o #98192, fd.o #98195, fd.o #98658; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie) • When running with AppArmor mediation (for example using Ubuntu's patched Linux kernel), clients can no longer auto-start services unless they would have been able to send the auto-starting message to the service after it starts. StartServiceByName() is unaffected, and continues to be allowed by default in AppArmor's and . (fd.o #98666, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Work around an undesired effect of the fix for CVE-2014-3637 (fd.o #80559), in which processes that frequently send fds, such as logind during a flood of new PAM sessions, can get disconnected for continuously having at least one fd "in flight" for too long; dbus-daemon interprets that as a potential denial of service attack. The workaround is to disable that check for uid 0 process such as logind, with a message in the system log. The bug remains open while we look for a more general solution. (fd.o #95263, LP#1591411; Simon McVittie) • Don't run the test test-dbus-launch-x11.sh if X11 autolaunching was disabled at compile time. That test is not expected to work in that configuration. (fd.o #98665, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.6 (2016-10-10) == The “darkly whimsical” release. Security fixes: • Do not treat ActivationFailure message received from root-owned systemd name as a format string. In principle this is a security vulnerability, but we do not believe it is exploitable in practice, because only privileged processes can own the org.freedesktop.systemd1 bus name, and systemd does not appear to send activation failures that contain "%". Please note that this probably *was* exploitable in dbus versions older than 1.6.30, 1.8.16 and 1.9.10 due to a missing check which at the time was only thought to be a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2015-0245). If you are still running one of those versions, patch or upgrade immediately. (fd.o #98157, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.29 · Recommend not using '/' for object paths (fd.o #37095, Philip Withnall) · Allow in elements (fd.o #86162, Philip Withnall) • Log to syslog when we exceed various anti-DoS limits, and add test coverage for them (fd.o #86442, Simon McVittie) • Improve syslog handling so that _dbus_warn() and similar warnings go to syslog, add dbus-daemon --syslog|--nosyslog|--syslog-only options, and log to syslog (instead of /dev/null) when dbus-daemon is started by dbus-launch. (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie) • Install introspect.dtd and busconfig.dtd to ${datadir}/xml/dbus-1 (fd.o #89011, Philip Withnall) • When logging messages about service activation, mention which peer requested the activation (fd.o #68212, Philip Withnall) • On Linux, mention the LSM label (if available) whenever we print debug information about a peer (fd.o #68212, Philip Withnall) Other fixes: • Harden dbus-daemon against malicious or incorrect ActivationFailure messages by rejecting them if they do not come from a privileged process, or if systemd activation is not enabled (fd.o #98157, Simon McVittie) • Avoid undefined behaviour when setting reply serial number without going via union DBusBasicValue (fd.o #98035, Marc Mutz) • Fix CMake build for Unix platforms that do not have -lrt, such as Android, or that do need -lsocket, such as QNX (fd.o #94096, Ralf Habacker) • autogen.sh: fail cleanly if autoconf fails (Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.4 (2016-08-15) == The “copper pickaxe” release. Dependencies: • Building from git (but not from tarballs) now requires macros from the GNU Autoconf Archive, for example the autoconf-archive package in Debian or Fedora derivatives. Build-time configuration: • The option to enable coverage instrumentation has changed from --enable-compiler-coverage to --enable-code-coverage. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.28 · Clarify some details of serialization (fd.o #93382, Philip Withnall) • Increase listen() backlog of AF_UNIX sockets to the maximum possible, minimizing failed connections under heavy load (fd.o #95264, Lennart Poettering) • Add a new dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 option (fd.o #39197, Simon McVittie) • Use the same regression tests for subprocess starting on Unix and Windows (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker) • Print timestamps and thread IDs in verbose messages (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker) • On Unix, unify the various places that reopen stdin, stdout and/or stderr pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #97008, Simon McVittie) • Use AX_CODE_COVERAGE instead of our own COMPILER_COVERAGE (fd.o #88922, Thomas Zimmermann) Fixes: • On Windows, fix a memory leak in replacing the installation prefix (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker) • On Linux, when dbus-daemon is run with reduced susceptibility to the OOM killer (typically via systemd), do not let child processes inherit that setting (fd.o #32851; Kimmo Hämäläinen, WaLyong Cho) • On Unix, make dbus-launch and dbus-daemon --fork work as intended even if a parent process incorrectly starts them with stdin, stdout and/or stderr closed (fd.o #97008, Simon McVittie) • Output valid shell syntax in ~/.dbus/session-bus/ if the bus address contains a semicolon (fd.o #94746, Thiago Macieira) • Fix memory leaks and thread safety in subprocess starting on Windows (fd.o #95191, Ralf Habacker) • Stop test-dbus-daemon incorrectly failing on platforms that cannot discover the process ID of clients (fd.o #96653, Руслан Ижбулатов) • In tests that exercise correct handling of crashing D-Bus services, suppress Windows crash handler (fd.o #95155; Yiyang Fei, Ralf Habacker) • Explicitly check for stdint.h (Ioan-Adrian Ratiu) • In tests, add an invalid DBusAuthState to avoid undefined behaviour in some test cases (fd.o #93909, Nick Lewycky) • Add assertions to reassure a static analysis tool (fd.o #93210, Deepika Aggarwal) • Be explicit about enum comparison when loading XML (fd.o #93205, Deepika Aggarwal) • update-activation-environment: produce better diagnostics on error (fd.o #96653, Simon McVittie) • Avoid various compiler warnings with gcc 6 (fd.o #97282; Thomas Zimmermann, Simon McVittie) • On Unix when configured to use the system log, report as "dbus-daemon", not as "dbus" (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie) • During unit tests, reduce the amount we write to the system log (fd.o #97009, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.11.2 (2016-03-07) == The “pneumatic drill vs. Iron Maiden” release. Fixes: • Enable "large file support" on systems where it exists: dbus-daemon is not expected to open large files, but it might need to stat files that happen to have large inode numbers (fd.o #93545, Hongxu Jia) • Eliminate padding inside DBusMessageIter on 64-bit platforms, which might result in a pedantic C compiler not copying the entire contents of a DBusMessageIter; statically assert that this is not an ABI change in practice (fd.o #94136, Simon McVittie) • Document dbus-test-tool echo --sleep-ms=N instead of incorrect --sleep=N (fd.o #94244, Dmitri Iouchtchenko) • Correctly report test failures in C tests from run-test.sh (fd.o #93379; amit tewari, Simon McVittie) • When tests are enabled, run all the marshal-validate tests, not just the even-numbered ones (fd.o #93908, Nick Lewycky) • Correct the expected error from one marshal-validate test, which was previously not run due to the above bug (fd.o #93908, Simon McVittie) • Fix compilation under CMake when embedded tests are disabled (fd.o #94094, eric.hyer) Internal changes: • Fix all -Wpointer-sign (signed/unsigned mismatch) warnings, and enable the warning (fd.o #93069; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • When building with CMake, use the same gcc/clang warnings as under Autotools, or MSVC warnings that are broadly similar (fd.o #93069, Ralf Habacker) • test/name-test: make C tests produce TAP output and run them directly, not via run-test.sh (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie) • Under CMake when cross-compiling for Windows on Unix, run the tests under Wine even if binfmt_misc support is not available (fd.o #88966, Ralf Habacker) • The DBUS_USE_TEST_BINARY environment variable is no longer used by builds with embedded tests; DBUS_TEST_DBUS_LAUNCH replaces it (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie) • Factor out some functions that will be needed in future for a Windows implementation of dbus-run-session (fd.o #92899, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.11.0 (2015-12-02) == The “peppermint deer” release. Dependencies: • On non-Windows platforms, dbus now requires an that defines C99 constants such as PRId64 and PRIu64. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.27 · Specify that services should not reply if NO_REPLY_EXPECTED was used (fd.o #75749, Lars Uebernickel) • Add a script to do continuous-integration builds, and metadata to run it on travis-ci.org. To use this, clone the dbus git repository on GitHub and set it up with travis-ci.org; the only special setting needed is "only build branches with a .travis.yml". (fd.o #93194, Simon McVittie) • If dbus-daemon is run with --systemd-activation, do not require org.freedesktop.systemd1.service to exist (fd.o #93194, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Re-order dbus-daemon startup so that on SELinux systems, the thread that reads AVC notifications retains the ability to write to the audit log (fd.o #92832, Laurent Bigonville) • Print 64-bit integers on non-GNU Unix platforms (fd.o #92043, Natanael Copa) • When using the Monitoring interface, match messages' destinations (fd.o #92074, Simon McVittie) • On Linux with systemd, stop installing a reference to the obsolete dbus.target, and enable dbus.socket statically (fd.o #78412, #92402; Simon McVittie) • On Windows, when including configuration files with or , apply the same relocation as for the Exec paths in .service files (fd.o #92028, Simon McVittie) • Add support for backtraces on Windows (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker) • Fix many -Wpointer-sign warnings (fd.o #93069, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.10.6 (2015-12-01) == The “marzipan beetles” release. Fixes: • On Unix when running tests as root, don't assert that root and the dbus-daemon user can still call UpdateActivationEnvironment; assert that those privileged users can call BecomeMonitor instead (fd.o #93036, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, fix a memory leak in the autolaunch transport (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie) • On Windows Autotools builds, don't run tests that rely on dbus-run-session and other Unix-specifics (fd.o #92899, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.10.4 (2015-11-17) == The “Frostburn Canyon” release. Enhancements: • GetConnectionCredentials, GetConnectionUnixUser and GetConnectionUnixProcessID with argument "org.freedesktop.DBus" will now return details of the dbus-daemon itself. This is required to be able to call SetEnvironment on systemd. (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens) Fixes: • Make UpdateActivationEnvironment always fail with AccessDenied on the system bus. Previously, it was possible to configure it so root could call it, but the environment variables were not actually used, because the launch helper would discard them. (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens) • On Unix with --systemd-activation on a user bus, make UpdateActivationEnvironment pass on its arguments to systemd's SetEnvironment method, solving inconsistency between the environments used for traditional activation and systemd user-service activation. (fd.o #92857, Jan Alexander Steffens) • On Windows, don't crash if or --syslog is used (fd.o #92538, Ralf Habacker) • On Windows, fix a memory leak when setting a DBusError from a Windows error (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker) • On Windows, don't go into infinite recursion if we abort the process with backtraces enabled (fd.o #92721, Ralf Habacker) • Fix various failing tests, variously on Windows and cross-platform: · don't test system.conf features (users, groups) that only make sense on the system bus, which is not supported on Windows · don't call _dbus_warn() when we skip a test, since it is fatal · fix computation of expected · when running TAP tests, translate newlines to Unix format, fixing cross-compiled tests under Wine on Linux · don't stress-test refcounting under Wine, where it's really slow · stop assuming that a message looped-back to the test will be received immediately · skip some system bus tests on Windows since they make no sense there (fd.o #92538, fd.o #92721; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.10.2 (2015-10-26) == The “worst pies in London” release. Fixes: • Correct error handling for activation: if there are multiple attempts to activate the same service and it fails immediately, the first attempt would get the correct reply, but the rest would time out. We now send the same error reply to each attempt. (fd.o #92200, Simon McVittie) • If BecomeMonitor is called with a syntactically invalid match rule, don't crash with an assertion failure, fixing a regression in 1.9.10. This was not exploitable as a denial of service, because the check for a privileged user is done first. (fd.o #92298, Simon McVittie) • On Linux with --enable-user-session, add the bus address to the environment of systemd services for better backwards compatibility (fd.o #92612, Jan Alexander Steffens) • On Windows, fix the logic for replacing the installation prefix in service files' Exec lines (fd.o #83539; Milan Crha, Simon McVittie) • On Windows, if installed in the conventional layout with ${prefix}/etc and ${prefix}/share, use relative paths between bus configuration files to allow the tree to be relocated (fd.o #92028, Simon McVittie) • Make more of the regression tests pass in Windows builds (fd.o #92538, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.10.0 (2015-08-25) == The “0x20” release. This is a new stable branch, recommended for use in OS distributions. Fixes since 1.9.20: • distribute test/tap-test.sh.in, even if the tarball was built without tests enabled (fd.o #91684, Simon McVittie) • work around a fd leak in libcap-ng < 0.7.7 (fd.o #91684, Simon McVittie) Summary of major changes since 1.8.0: • The basic setup for the well-known system and session buses is now done in read-only files in ${datadir} (normally /usr/share). See the NEWS entry for 1.9.18 for details. • AppArmor integration has been merged, with features similar to the pre-existing SELinux integration. It is mostly compatible with the patches previously shipped by Ubuntu, with one significant change: Ubuntu's GetConnectionAppArmorSecurityContext method has been superseded by GetConnectionCredentials and was not included. • The --enable-user-session configure option can be enabled by OS integrators intending to use systemd to provide a session bus per user (in effect, treating all concurrent graphical and non-graphical login sessions as one large session). • The new listenable address mode "unix:runtime=yes" listens on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus, the same AF_UNIX socket used by the systemd user session. libdbus and "dbus-launch --autolaunch" will connect to this address by default. GLib ≥ 2.45.3 and sd-bus ≥ 209 have a matching default. • All executables are now dynamically linked to libdbus-1. Previously, some executables, most notably dbus-daemon, were statically linked to a specially-compiled variant of libdbus. This results in various private functions in the _dbus namespace being exposed by the shared library. These are not API, and must not be used outside the dbus source tree. • On platforms with ELF symbol versioning, all public symbols are versioned LIBDBUS_1_3. New bus APIs: • org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionCredentials returns LinuxSecurityLabel where supported • org.freedesktop.DBus.Monitoring interface (privileged) · BecomeMonitor method supersedes match rules with eavesdrop=true, which are now deprecated • org.freedesktop.DBus.Stats interface (semi-privileged) · now enabled by default · new GetAllMatchRules method • org.freedesktop.DBus.Verbose interface (not normally compiled) · toggles the effect of DBUS_VERBOSE New executables: • dbus-test-tool • dbus-update-activation-environment New optional dependencies: • The systemd: pseudo-transport requires libsystemd or libsd-daemon • Complete documentation requires Ducktype and yelp-tools • Full test coverage requires GLib 2.36 and PyGI • AppArmor integration requires libapparmor and optionally libaudit Dependencies removed: • dbus-glib D-Bus 1.9.20 (2015-08-06) == The “Remember Tomorrow” release. This is a release-candidate for D-Bus 1.10.0. OS distribution vendors should test it. Fixes: • Don't second-guess what the ABI of poll() is, allowing it to be used on Integrity RTOS and other unusual platforms (fd.o #90314; Rolland Dudemaine, Simon McVittie) • Don't duplicate audit subsystem integration if AppArmor and SELinux are both enabled (fd.o #89225, Simon McVittie) • Log audit events for AppArmor/SELinux policy violations whenever we have CAP_AUDIT_WRITE, even if not the system bus (fd.o #83856, Laurent Bigonville) D-Bus 1.9.18 (2015-07-21) == The “Pirate Elite” release. Configuration changes: • The basic setup for the well-known system and session buses is now done in read-only files in ${datadir}, moving a step closer to systems that can operate with an empty /etc directory. In increasing order of precedence: · ${datadir}/dbus-1/s*.conf now perform the basic setup such as setting the default message policies. · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*.conf are now optional. By default dbus still installs a trivial version of each, for documentation purposes; putting configuration directives in these files is deprecated. · ${datadir}/dbus-1/s*.d/ are now available for third-party software to install "drop-in" configuration snippets (any packages using those directories should explicitly depend on at least this version of dbus). · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*.d/ are also still available for sysadmins or third-party software to install "drop-in" configuration snippets · ${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/s*-local.conf are still available for sysadmins' overrides ${datadir} is normally /usr/share, ${sysconfdir} is normally /etc, and "s*" refers to either system or session as appropriate. (fd.o #89280, Dimitri John Ledkov) Fixes: • Fix a memory leak when GetConnectionCredentials() succeeds (fd.o #91008, Jacek Bukarewicz) • Ensure that dbus-monitor does not reply to messages intended for others, resulting in its own disconnection (fd.o #90952, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.9.16 (2015-05-14) == The “titanium barns” release. Dependencies: • Automake 1.13 is now required when compiling from git or modifying the build system. Security hardening: • On Unix platforms, change the default configuration for the session bus to only allow EXTERNAL authentication (secure kernel-mediated credentials-passing), as was already done for the system bus. This avoids falling back to DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, which relies on strongly unpredictable pseudo-random numbers. If you are using D-Bus over the (unencrypted!) tcp: or nonce-tcp: transport, in conjunction with DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 and a shared home directory using NFS or similar, you will need to reconfigure the session bus to accept DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 by commenting out the element. This configuration is not recommended. (fd.o #90414, Simon McVittie) • When asked for random numbers for DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, the nonce-tcp: transport, UUIDs or any other reason, fail if we cannot obtain entropy (from /dev/urandom or CryptGenRandom()) or an out-of-memory condition occurs, instead of silently falling back to low-entropy pseudorandom numbers from rand(). (fd.o #90414; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) Enhancements: • Add dbus_message_iter_get_element_count() (fd.o #30350; Christian Dywan, Simon McVittie) • Introduce new internal DBusSocket and DBusPollable types so we can stop treating the Windows SOCKET type as if it was int. DBusSocket is specifically a socket, cross-platform. DBusPollable is whatever _dbus_poll() can act on, i.e. a fd on Unix or a SOCKET on Windows. (fd.o #89444; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • All regression tests now output TAP (fd.o #89846, Simon McVittie) • Internal APIs consistently use signed values for timestamps (fd.o #18494, Peter McCurdy) • Improve diagnostics when UpdateActivationEnvironment calls are rejected (fd.o #88812, Simon McVittie) • Clean up a lot of compiler warnings (fd.o #17289, fd.o #89284; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Add locking to DBusCounter's reference count and notify function (fd.o #89297, Adrian Szyndela) • Ensure that DBusTransport's reference count is protected by the corresponding DBusConnection's lock (fd.o #90312, Adrian Szyndela) • Correctly release DBusServer mutex before early-return if we run out of memory while copying authentication mechanisms (fd.o #90021, Ralf Habacker) • Make dbus-test-tool and dbus-update-activation-environment portable to Windows (fd.o #90089, Ralf Habacker) • Correctly initialize all fields of DBusTypeReader (fd.o #90021; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Fix some missing \n in verbose (debug log) messages (fd.o #90004, Ralf Habacker) • Clean up some memory and fd leaks in test code and tools (fd.o #90021, Ralf Habacker) • Fix a NULL dereference if the dbus-daemon cannot read a configuration directory for a reason that is not ENOENT (fd.o #90021, Ralf Habacker) • CMake generates a versioned shared library even if the revision is 0, as it usually is on the development branch. (fd.o #89450, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.9.14 (2015-03-02) == The “don't stand in the poison cloud” release. Dependencies: • dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper now require libdbus. They were previously linked to a static version of libdbus. • The tests no longer require dbus-glib in order to exercise the libdbus shared library; they are always linked to libdbus now. Build-time configuration: • The new --enable-user-session option, off by default, can be enabled by OS integrators intending to use systemd to provide a session bus per user (in effect, treating all concurrent graphical and non-graphical login sessions as one large session) Enhancements: • All executables are now linked dynamically to libdbus. (fd.o #83115; Bertrand SIMONNET, Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) • On platforms that support them (GNU libc and possibly others), libdbus now has versioned symbols for its public API. All public symbols (visible in the header files) are currently versioned as LIBDBUS_1_3; private symbols starting with _dbus or dbus_internal have a version that changes with each release, and must not be used by applications. (also fd.o #83115) • New listenable address mode "unix:runtime=yes" which listens on a real filesystem (non-abstract) socket $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus (fd.o #61303; Colin Walters, Alexander Larsson, Simon McVittie) • Add optional systemd units for a per-user bus listening on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus (fd.o #61301; Simon McVittie, Colin Walters) • On Unix platforms, both libdbus and "dbus-launch --autolaunch" default to connecting to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus if it is a socket (also fd.o #61301) • New dbus-update-activation-environment tool uploads environment variables to "dbus-daemon --session" and optionally "systemd --user", primarily as a way to keep the per-user bus compatible with distributions' existing X11 login scripts (also fd.o #61301) • elements in dbus-daemon configuration are now silently ignored if the directory does not exist. (fd.o #89280, Dimitri John Ledkov) • Add microsecond-resolution timestamps to the default output of dbus-monitor and dbus-send (fd.o #88896; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Fix a race condition in the 'monitor' test introduced in 1.9.10 (fd.o #89222, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.9.12 (2015-02-19) == The “monster lasagna” release. Dependencies: • Ducktype and yelp-tools are now required to build complete documentation (they are optional for normal builds). Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.26 · GetConnectionCredentials can return LinuxSecurityLabel or WindowsSID · document the BecomeMonitor method • On Linux, add LinuxSecurityLabel to GetConnectionCredentials (fd.o #89041; Tyler Hicks, Simon McVittie) • On Linux, add support for AppArmor mediation of message sending and receiving and name ownership (paralleling existing SELinux mediation support), and eavesdropping (a new check, currently AppArmor-specific) (fd.o #75113; John Johansen, Tyler Hicks, Simon McVittie) • In dbus-send and dbus-monitor, pretty-print \0-terminated bytestrings that have printable ASCII contents; we previously only did this for unterminated bytestrings (fd.o #89109, Simon McVittie) • Add a guide to designing good D-Bus APIs (fd.o #88994, Philip Withnall) • On Windows, add WindowsSID to GetConnectionCredentials (fd.o #54445, Ralf Habacker) • Improve clarity of dbus-monitor --profile output and add more columns (fd.o #89165, Ralf Habacker) • Add a man page for dbus-test-tool, and build it under CMake as well as Autotools (fd.o#89086, Simon McVittie) • If dbus-daemon was compiled with --enable-verbose, add a D-Bus API to control it at runtime, overriding the DBUS_VERBOSE environment variable (fd.o #88896, Ralf Habacker) Fixes: • Reduce the number of file descriptors used in the fd-passing test, avoiding failure under the default Linux fd limit, and automatically skip it if the rlimit is too small (fd.o #88998, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.9.10 (2015-02-09) == The “sad cyborgs” release. Security fixes merged from 1.8.16: • Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would allow a local denial of service: unprivileged processes could flood the bus with these forged messages, winning the race with the actual service activation and causing an error reply to be sent back when service auto-activation was requested. This does not prevent the real service from being started, so the attack only works while the real service is not running. (CVE-2015-0245, fd.o #88811; Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • The new Monitoring interface in the dbus-daemon lets dbus-monitor and similar tools receive messages without altering the security properties of the system bus, by calling the new BecomeMonitor method on a private connection. This bypasses the normal and rules entirely, so to preserve normal message-privacy assumptions, only root is allowed to do this on the system bus. Restricted environments, such as Linux with LSMs, should lock down access to the Monitoring interface. (fd.o #46787, Simon McVittie) • dbus-monitor uses BecomeMonitor to capture more traffic, if the dbus-daemon supports it and access permissions allow it. It still supports the previous approach ("eavesdropping" match rules) for compatibility with older bus daemons. (fd.o #46787, Simon) • dbus-monitor can now log the message stream as binary data for later analysis, with either no extra framing beyond the normal D-Bus headers, or libpcap-compatible framing treating each D-Bus message as a captured packet. (fd.o #46787, Simon) Other fixes: • Fix some CMake build regressions (fd.o #88964, Ralf Habacker) • On Unix, forcibly terminate regression tests after 60 seconds to prevent them from blocking continuous integration frameworks (fd.o #46787, Simon) D-Bus 1.9.8 (2015-02-03) == The “all the types of precipitation” release. Dependencies: • full test coverage now requires GLib 2.36 • full test coverage now requires PyGI (PyGObject 3, "import gi.repository.GObject") instead of the obsolete PyGObject 2 ("import gobject") Enhancements: • add GLib-style "installed tests" (fd.o #88810, Simon McVittie) • better regression test coverage, including systemd activation (fd.o #57952, #88810; Simon McVittie) Fixes: • fatal errors correctly make the dbus-daemon exit even if is turned off (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie) • TCP sockets on Windows no longer fail to listen approximately 1 time in 256, caused by a logic error that should have always made it fail but was mitigated by incorrect endianness for the port number (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker) • fix some Windows build failures (fd.o #88009, #88010; Ralf Habacker) • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of the previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker) • on Windows, if the IP family is unspecified only use IPv4, to mitigate IPv6 not working correctly (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker) • fix some unlikely memory leaks on OOM (fd.o #88087, Simon McVittie) • lcov code coverage analysis works again (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie) • fix an unused function error with --disable-embedded-tests (fd.o #87837, Thiago Macieira) D-Bus 1.9.6 (2015-01-05) == The “I do have a bread knife” release. Security hardening: • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment from uids other than the uid of the dbus-daemon. If a system service installs unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls (such as CVE-2014-8148) then this prevents memory consumption and possible privilege escalation via UpdateActivationEnvironment. We believe that in practice, privilege escalation here is avoided by dbus-daemon-launch-helper sanitizing its environment; but it seems better to be safe. • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats interface on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus. Some system services install unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls to any destination, method and interface with a specified object path; while less bad than allowing arbitrary method calls, these security policies are still harmful, since dbus-daemon normally offers the same API on all object paths and other system services might behave similarly. Other fixes: • Add missing initialization so GetExtendedTcpTable doesn't crash on Windows Vista SP0 (fd.o #77008, Илья А. Ткаченко) D-Bus 1.9.4 (2014-11-24) == The “extra-sturdy caramel” release. Fixes: • Partially revert the CVE-2014-3639 patch by increasing the default authentication timeout on the system bus from 5 seconds back to 30 seconds, since this has been reported to cause boot regressions for some users, mostly with parallel boot (systemd) on slower hardware. On fast systems where local users are considered particularly hostile, administrators can return to the 5 second timeout (or any other value in milliseconds) by saving this as /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf: 5000 (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie) • Add a message in syslog/the Journal when the auth_timeout is exceeded (fd.o #86431, Simon McVittie) • Send back an AccessDenied error if the addressed recipient is not allowed to receive a message (and in builds with assertions enabled, don't assert under the same conditions). (fd.o #86194, Jacek Bukarewicz) D-Bus 1.9.2 (2014-11-10) == The “structurally unsound flapjack” release. Security fixes: • Increase dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536 so that CVE-2014-3636 part A cannot exhaust the system bus' file descriptors, completing the incomplete fix in 1.8.8. (CVE-2014-7824, fd.o #85105; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.25 · new value 'const' for EmitsChangedSignal annotation (fd.o #72958, Lennart Poettering) · new ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag, for PolicyKit and similar (fd.o #83449; Lennart Poettering, Simon McVittie) · annotate table of types with reserved/basic/container, and for basic types, fixed/string-like · clarify arbitrary limits by quoting them in mebibytes • New API: add accessors for the ALLOW_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORIZATION flag (fd.o #83449, Simon McVittie) • Add dbus-test-tool, a D-Bus swiss army knife with multiple subcommands, useful for debugging and performance testing: · dbus-test-tool spam: send repeated messages · dbus-test-tool echo: send an empty reply for all method calls · dbus-test-tool black-hole: do not reply to method calls (fd.o #34140; Alban Crequy, Simon McVittie, Will Thompson) • Add support for process ID in credentials-passing on NetBSD (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche) • Add an example script to find potentially undesired match rules (fd.o #84598, Alban Crequy) • Document the central assumption that makes our use of credentials-passing secure (fd.o #83499, Simon McVittie) • Replace the dbus-glib section of the tutorial with a GDBus recommendation, and add some links to GDBus and QtDBus documentation (fd.o #25140, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Use a less confusing NoReply message when disconnected with a reply pending (fd.o #76112, Simon McVittie) • Make the .pc file relocatable by letting pkg-config do all variable expansion itself (fd.o #75858, Руслан Ижбулатов) • Fix a build failure on platforms with kqueue, which regressed in 1.9.0 (fd.o #85563, Patrick Welche) • Consistently save errno after socket calls (fd.o #83625, Simon McVittie) • In dbus-spawn, when the grandchild process exits due to a failed exec(), do not lose the exec() errno (fd.o #24821, Simon McVittie) • Do not fail the tests if a parent process has leaked non-close-on-exec file descriptors to us (fd.o #73689, fd.o #83899; Simon McVittie) • Do not fail the tests on Unix platforms with incomplete credentials-passing support, but do fail if we can't pass credentials on a platform where it is known to work: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (fd.o #69702, Simon McVittie) • Detect accept4, dirfd, inotify_init1, pipe2, and Unix fd passing when building with cmake, and expand test coverage there (fd.o #73689; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.9.0 (2014-10-01) == The “tiered cheeses” release. Requirements: • Support for the systemd: (LISTEN_FDS) pseudo-transport on Linux now requires either the libsystemd or libsd-daemon shared library, dropping the embedded convenience copy of sd-daemon (fd.o #71818, Simon) Build-time configuration changes: • The Stats interface is now enabled by default, and locked-down to root-only on the system bus. Configure with --disable-stats to disable it altogether on memory- or disk-constrained systems, or see ${docdir}/examples/ to open it up to non-root users on the system bus or restrict access on the session bus. (fd.o #80759; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy) • The CMake build system now builds the same shared library name as Autotools on at least Linux and Windows: - on Linux (and perhaps other Unix platforms), it previously built libdbus-1.so, but now builds libdbus-1.so.3.* with development symlink libdbus-1.so and SONAME/symlink libdbus-1.so.3 - on Windows, it previously built either libdbus-1.dll (release) or libdbus-1d.dll (debug), but now builds libdbus-1-3.dll, copied to libdbus-1.dll for compatibility with older applications. (fd.o #74117, Ralf Habacker) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification version 0.24 · document how to quote match rules (fd.o #24307, Simon McVittie) · explicitly say that most message types never expect a reply regardles of whether they have NO_REPLY_EXPECTED (fd.o #75749, Simon McVittie) • on Unix platforms, disable Nagle's algorithm on TCP connections to improve initial latency (fd.o #75544, Matt Hoosier) • use backtrace() if it is in -lexecinfo instead of libc, as on NetBSD (fd.o #69702, Patrick Welche) • in dbus-monitor, print more information about file descriptors (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy) • do not install system bus configuration if built for Windows (fd.o #83583; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Add GetAllMatchRules to the Stats interface (fd.o #24307, Alban Crequy) • Add a regression test for file descriptor passing (fd.o #83622, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • fix an incorrect error message if a Unix socket path is too long (fd.o #73887, Antoine Jacoutot) • in an MSYS/Cygwin environment, pass Unix-style filenames to xmlto, fixing documentation generation (fd.o #75860, Руслан Ижбулатов) • in Unix with X11, avoid giving dbus-launch a misleading argv[0] in ps(1) (fd.o #69716, Chengwei Yang) • avoid calling poll() with timeout < -1, which is considered invalid on FreeBSD and NetBSD (fd.o #78480, Jaap Boender) • be portable to BSD-derived platforms where O_CLOEXEC is unavailable in libc (like Mac OS X 10.6), or available in libc but unsupported by the kernel (fd.o #77032; rmvsxop, OBATA Akio, Patrick Welche) • Fix include path for test/internal/*.c with cmake (Ralf Habacker) • Documentation improvements (fd.o #80795, #84313; Thomas Haller, Sebastian Rasmussen) • in dbus-monitor, do not leak file descriptors that we have monitored (fd.o #80603, Alban Crequy) • Set the close-on-exec flag for the inotify file descriptor, even if built with CMake or older libc (fd.o #73689, Simon McVittie) • Remove some LGPL code from the Windows dbus-daemon (fd.o #57272, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.8.8 (2014-09-16) == The "smashy smashy egg man" release. Security fixes: • Do not accept an extra fd in the padding of a cmsg message, which could lead to a 4-byte heap buffer overrun. (CVE-2014-3635, fd.o #83622; Simon McVittie) • Reduce default for maximum Unix file descriptors passed per message from 1024 to 16, preventing a uid with the default maximum number of connections from exhausting the system bus' file descriptors under Linux's default rlimit. Distributors or system administrators with a more restrictive fd limit may wish to reduce these limits further. Additionally, on Linux this prevents a second denial of service in which the dbus-daemon can be made to exceed the maximum number of fds per sendmsg() and disconnect the process that would have received them. (CVE-2014-3636, fd.o #82820; Alban Crequy) • Disconnect connections that still have a fd pending unmarshalling after a new configurable limit, pending_fd_timeout (defaulting to 150 seconds), removing the possibility of creating an abusive connection that cannot be disconnected by setting up a circular reference to a connection's file descriptor. (CVE-2014-3637, fd.o #80559; Alban Crequy) • Reduce default for maximum pending replies per connection from 8192 to 128, mitigating an algorithmic complexity denial-of-service attack (CVE-2014-3638, fd.o #81053; Alban Crequy) • Reduce default for authentication timeout on the system bus from 30 seconds to 5 seconds, avoiding denial of service by using up all unauthenticated connection slots; and when all unauthenticated connection slots are used up, make new connection attempts block instead of disconnecting them. (CVE-2014-3639, fd.o #80919; Alban Crequy) Other fixes: • Check for libsystemd from systemd >= 209, falling back to the older separate libraries if not found (Umut Tezduyar Lindskog, Simon McVittie) • On Linux, use prctl() to disable core dumps from a test executable that deliberately raises SIGSEGV to test dbus-daemon's handling of that condition (fd.o #83772, Simon McVittie) • Fix compilation with --enable-stats (fd.o #81043, Gentoo #507232; Alban Crequy) • Improve documentation for running tests on Windows (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.8.6 (2014-06-02) == Security fixes: • On Linux ≥ 2.6.37-rc4, if sendmsg() fails with ETOOMANYREFS, silently drop the message. This prevents an attack in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service, which is a local denial of service. (fd.o #80163, CVE-2014-3532; Alban Crequy) • Track remaining Unix file descriptors correctly when more than one message in quick succession contains fds. This prevents another attack in which a malicious client can make dbus-daemon disconnect a system service. (fd.o #79694, fd.o #80469, CVE-2014-3533; Alejandro Martínez Suárez, Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy) Other fixes: • When dbus-launch --exit-with-session starts a dbus-daemon but then cannot attach to a session, kill the dbus-daemon as intended (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко) D-Bus 1.8.4 (2014-06-10) == Security fix: • Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered and fixed a denial-of-service flaw in dbus-daemon, part of the reference implementation of D-Bus. Additionally, in highly unusual environments the same flaw could lead to a side channel between processes that should not be able to communicate. (CVE-2014-3477, fd.o #78979) D-Bus 1.8.2 (2014-04-30) == The “nobody wants red” release. Enhancements: • in the CMake build system, add some hints for Linux users cross-compiling Windows D-Bus binaries to be able to run tests under Wine (fd.o #41252, Ralf Habacker) • add Documentation key to dbus.service (fd.o #77447, Cameron Norman) Fixes: • in "dbus-uuidgen --ensure", try to copy systemd's /etc/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id instead of generating an entirely new ID (fd.o #77941, Simon McVittie) • if dbus-launch receives an X error very quickly, do not kill unrelated processes (fd.o #74698, Роман Донченко) • on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon, instead of the previous 64 (fd.o #71297; Cristian Onet, Ralf Habacker) • cope with \r\n newlines in regression tests, since on Windows, dbus-daemon.exe uses text mode (fd.o #75863, Руслан Ижбулатов) D-Bus 1.8.0 (2014-01-20) == 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, #73495; Ralf Habacker) Fixes since 1.7.10: • don't rely on va_copy(), use DBUS_VA_COPY() wrapper (fd.o #72840, Ralf Habacker) • fix compilation of systemd journal support on older systemd versions where sd-journal.h doesn't include syslog.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker) • fix compilation on older MSVC versions by including stdlib.h (fd.o #73455, Ralf Habacker) • Allow to appear in an included configuration file (fd.o #73475, Matt Hoosier) 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 environment if you want the old behaviour. • To improve debuggability, the dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-eavesdrop tests can be run with an external dbus-daemon by setting DBUS_TEST_DAEMON_ADDRESS in the environment. Test-cases that require an unusually-configured dbus-daemon are skipped. D-Bus 1.7.10 (2014-01-06) == The “weighted companion cube” release. This is a release candidate for D-Bus 1.8. D-Bus Specification 0.23: • don't require messages with no INTERFACE to be dispatched (fd.o #68597, Simon McVittie) • document "tcp:bind=..." and "nonce-tcp:bind=..." (fd.o #72301, Chengwei Yang) • define "listenable" and "connectable" addresses, and discuss the difference (fd.o #61303, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • support printing Unix file descriptors in dbus-send, dbus-monitor (fd.o #70592, Robert Ancell) • don't install systemd units if --disable-systemd is given (fd.o #71818, Chengwei Yang) Fixes: • don't leak memory on out-of-memory while listing activatable or active services (fd.o #71526, Radoslaw Pajak) • fix undefined behaviour in a regression test (fd.o #69924, DreamNik) • escape Unix socket addresses correctly (fd.o #46013, Chengwei Yang) • on SELinux systems, don't assume that SECCLASS_DBUS, DBUS__ACQUIRE_SVC and DBUS__SEND_MSG are numerically equal to their values in the reference policy (fd.o #88719, osmond sun) • define PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION if missing from MinGW < 4 headers (fd.o #71366, Matt Fischer) • define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid conflicts between winsock.h and winsock2.h (fd.o #71405, Matt Fischer) • do not return failure from _dbus_read_nonce() with no error set, preventing a potential crash (fd.o #72298, Chengwei Yang) • on BSD systems, avoid some O(1)-per-process memory and fd leaks in kqueue, preventing test failures (fd.o #69332, fd.o #72213; Chengwei Yang) • fix warning spam on Hurd by not trying to set SO_REUSEADDR on Unix sockets, which doesn't do anything anyway on at least Linux and FreeBSD (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie) • fix use of TCP sockets on FreeBSD and Hurd by tolerating EINVAL from sendmsg() with SCM_CREDS (retrying with plain send()), and looking for credentials more correctly (fd.o #69492, Simon McVittie) • ensure that tests run with a temporary XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to avoid getting mixed up in XDG/systemd "user sessions" (fd.o #61301, Simon McVittie) • refresh cached policy rules for existing connections when bus configuration changes (fd.o #39463, Chengwei Yang) D-Bus 1.7.8 (2013-11-01) == The “extreme hills” release. Dependencies: • If systemd support is enabled, libsystemd-journal is now required. Enhancements: • When activating a non-systemd service under systemd, annotate its stdout/stderr with its bus name in the Journal. Known limitation: because the socket is opened before forking, the process will still be logged as if it had dbus-daemon's process ID and user ID. (fd.o #68559, Chengwei Yang) • Document more configuration elements in dbus-daemon(1) (fd.o #69125, Chengwei Yang) Fixes: • Don't leak string arrays or fds if dbus_message_iter_get_args_valist() unpacks them and then encounters an error (fd.o #21259, Chengwei Yang) • If compiled with libaudit, retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE so we can write disallowed method calls to the audit log, fixing a regression in 1.7.6 (fd.o #49062, Colin Walters) • path_namespace='/' in match rules incorrectly matched nothing; it now matches everything. (fd.o #70799, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.7.6 (2013-10-09) == The “CSI Shrewsbury” release. Build-time configuration changes: • Directory change notification via dnotify on Linux is no longer supported; it hadn't compiled successfully since 2010 in any case. If you don't have inotify (Linux) or kqueue (*BSD), you will need to send SIGHUP to the dbus-daemon when its configuration changes. (fd.o #33001, Chengwei Yang) • Compiling with --disable-userdb-cache is no longer supported; it didn't work since at least 2008, and would lead to an extremely slow dbus-daemon even it worked. (fd.o #15589, #17133, #66947; Chengwei Yang) • The DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS CMake option didn't actually disable most assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang) • --with-valgrind=auto enables Valgrind instrumentation if and only if valgrind headers are available. The default is still --with-valgrind=no. (fd.o #56925, Simon McVittie) Dependencies: • Platforms with no 64-bit integer type are no longer supported. (fd.o #65429, Simon McVittie) • GNU make is now (documented to be) required. (fd.o #48277, Simon McVittie) • Full test coverage no longer requires dbus-glib, although the tests do not exercise the shared library (only a static copy) if dbus-glib is missing. (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.22 · Document GetAdtAuditSessionData() and GetConnectionSELinuxSecurityContext() (fd.o #54445, Simon) · Fix example .service file (fd.o #66481, Chengwei Yang) · Don't claim D-Bus is "low-latency" (lower than what?), just give factual statements about it supporting async use (fd.o #65141, Justin Lee) · Document the contents of .service files, and the fact that system services' filenames are constrained (fd.o #66608; Simon McVittie, Chengwei Yang) • Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with older libdbus, library users should continue to call dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so. (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie) • Add GetConnectionCredentials() method (fd.o #54445, Simon) • New API: dbus_setenv(), a simple wrapper around setenv(). Note that this is not thread-safe. (fd.o #39196, Simon) • Add dbus-send --peer=ADDRESS (connect to a given peer-to-peer connection, like --address=ADDRESS in previous versions) and dbus-send --bus=ADDRESS (connect to a given bus, like dbus-monitor --address=ADDRESS). dbus-send --address still exists for backwards compatibility, but is no longer documented. (fd.o #48816, Andrey Mazo) • Windows-specific: · "dbus-daemon --nofork" is allowed on Windows again. (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Avoid an infinite busy-loop if a signal interrupts waitpid() (fd.o #68945, Simon McVittie) • Clean up memory for parent nodes when objects are unexported (fd.o #60176, Thomas Fitzsimmons) • Make dbus_connection_set_route_peer_messages(x, FALSE) behave as documented. Previously, it assumed its second parameter was TRUE. (fd.o #69165, Chengwei Yang) • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly (fd.o #53499, Chengwei Yang) • Document search order correctly (fd.o #66994, Chengwei Yang) • Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4. (fd.o #65923, Chengwei Yang) • If malloc() returns NULL in _dbus_string_init() or similar, don't free an invalid pointer if the string is later freed (fd.o #65959, Chengwei Yang) • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang) • fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang) • fix a regression test on platforms with strict alignment (fd.o #67279, Colin Walters) • Avoid calling function parameters "interface" since certain Windows headers have a namespace-polluting macro of that name (fd.o #66493, Ivan Romanov) • Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang) • Various thread-safety improvements to static variables (fd.o #68610, Simon McVittie) • Make "make -j check" work (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) • Fix a NULL pointer dereference on an unlikely error path (fd.o #69327, Sviatoslav Chagaev) • Improve valgrind memory pool tracking (fd.o #69326, Sviatoslav Chagaev) • Don't over-allocate memory in dbus-monitor (fd.o #69329, Sviatoslav Chagaev) • dbus-monitor can monitor dbus-daemon < 1.5.6 again (fd.o #66107, Chengwei Yang) • Unix-specific: · If accept4() fails with EINVAL, as it can on older Linux kernels with newer glibc, try accept() instead of going into a busy-loop. (fd.o #69026, Chengwei Yang) · If socket() or socketpair() fails with EINVAL or EPROTOTYPE, for instance on Hurd or older Linux with a new glibc, try without SOCK_CLOEXEC. (fd.o #69073; Pino Toscano, Chengwei Yang) · Fix a file descriptor leak on an error code path. (fd.o #69182, Sviatoslav Chagaev) · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables (fd.o #39196, Simon) · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang) · Don't fail the autolaunch test if there is no DISPLAY (fd.o #40352, Simon) · Use dbus-launch from the builddir for testing, not the installed copy (fd.o #37849, Chengwei Yang) · Fix compilation if writev() is unavailable (fd.o #69409, Vasiliy Balyasnyy) · Remove broken support for LOCAL_CREDS credentials passing, and document where each credential-passing scheme is used (fd.o #60340, Simon McVittie) · Make autogen.sh work on *BSD by not assuming GNU coreutils functionality (fd.o #35881, #69787; Chengwei Yang) · dbus-monitor: be portable to NetBSD (fd.o #69842, Chengwei Yang) · dbus-launch: stop using non-portable asprintf (fd.o #37849, Simon) · Improve error reporting from the setuid activation helper (fd.o #66728, Chengwei Yang) • Windows-specific: · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help' (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker) · Add support for looking up local TCPv4 clients' credentials on Windows XP via the undocumented AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack function (fd.o #66060, Ralf Habacker) · Fix insufficient dependency-tracking (fd.o #68505, Simon McVittie) · Don't include wspiapi.h, fixing a compiler warning (fd.o #68852, Simon McVittie) • Internal changes: · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang) · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters) · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker) · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005, #66257, #69165, #69410, #70218; Chengwei Yang, Vasiliy Balyasnyy) D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13) == The “but is your thread-safety thread-safe?” release. Security fixes: • CVE-2013-2168: Fix misuse of va_list that could be used as a denial of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea. (Simon) Dependencies: • The Windows version of libdbus now contains a C++ source file, used to provide global initialization when the library is loaded. gcc (mingw*) users should ensure that g++ is also installed. • The libxml2-based configuration reader (which hasn't worked for 2.5 years, and was never the recommended option) has been removed. Expat is now a hard dependency. Enhancements: • It should now be safe to call dbus_threads_init_default() from any thread, at any time. Authors of loadable modules and plugins that use libdbus should consider doing so during initialization. (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie) • Improve dbus-send documentation and command-line parsing (fd.o #65424, Chengwei Yang) Unix-specific: · dbus-run-session: experimental new tool to start a temporary D-Bus session, e.g. for regression tests or a text console, replacing certain uses of dbus-launch which weren't really correct (fd.o #39196, Simon) Other fixes: • In dbus-daemon, don't crash if a .service file starts with key=value (fd.o #60853, Chengwei Yang) • Unix-specific: · Fix a crash similar to CVE-2013-2168 the first time we try to use syslog on a platform not defining LOG_PERROR, such as Solaris or QNX. This regressed in 1.7.0. (Simon) · Fix an assertion failure if we try to activate systemd services before systemd connects to the bus (fd.o #50199, Chengwei Yang) · Avoid compiler warnings for ignoring the return from write() (Chengwei Yang) • Windows-specific: · Under cmake, install runtime libraries (DLLs) into bin/ instead of lib/ so that Windows finds them (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.7.2 (2013-04-25) == The “only partially opaque” release. Configuration changes: • On non-QNX Unix platforms, the default limit on fds per message in the session bus configuration has reduced from 4096 to 1024. The default limit used on the system bus was already 1024. On QNX, both limits are reduced further, to 128. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.21 · Following Unicode Corrigendum #9, the noncharacters U+nFFFE, U+nFFFF, U+FDD0..U+FDEF are allowed in UTF-8 strings again. (fd.o #63072, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • Diagnose incorrect use of dbus_connection_get_data() with negative slot (i.e. before allocating the slot) rather than returning junk (fd.o #63127, Dan Williams) • Fix a cmake build regression since 1.7.0 (fd.o #63682; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) • Unix-specific: · On Linux, link successfully with glibc 2.17 (fd.o #63166, Simon McVittie)   · Under systemd, log to syslog only, not stderr, avoiding duplication (fd.o #61399, #39987; Colin Walters, Dagobert Michelsen) · Under systemd, remove unnecessary dependency on syslog.socket (fd.o #63531, Cristian Rodríguez) · Include alloca.h for alloca() if available, fixing compilation on Solaris 10 (fd.o #63071, Dagobert Michelsen) · Allow use of systemd-logind without the rest of systemd (fd.o #62585, Martin Pitt) · When built with CMake, link to librt and use the right path for meinproc's XSLT stylesheets (fd.o #61637, Ralf Habacker) · Reduce the default limit on number of fds per message to 128 under QNX, working around an arbitrary OS limit (fd.o #61176, Matt Fischer) • Windows-specific: · Do not claim that all bus clients have the dbus-daemon's credentials; pick up local TCPv4 clients' credentials (process ID and security identifier, i.e. user) using GetExtendedTcpTable() (fd.o #61787, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.7.0 (2013-02-22) == The "Disingenuous Assertions" release. This is a new development release, starting the 1.7.x branch. D-Bus 1.6 remains the recommended version for long-term-supported distributions or the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release. Build-time configuration changes: • The --with-dbus-session-bus-default-address configure option is no longer supported. Use the new --with-dbus-session-bus-connect-address and --with-dbus-session-bus-listen-address options instead. On Windows, you usually want them to have the same argument; on Unix, the defaults are usually correct. • Similarly, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_DEFAULT_ADDRESS CMake variable is no longer supported; use the new DBUS_SESSION_BUS_LISTEN_ADDRESS and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_CONNECT_ADDRESS variables instead. • cmake/cross-compile.sh has been removed. Instead, please use a cross-toolchain file (-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE) as documented at ; or use Autotools as documented in "info automake Cross-Compilation", and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH appropriately. Requirements: • Man pages now require xmlto (or either xmlto or meinproc, if using CMake). • man2html is no longer used. Enhancements: • D-Bus Specification 0.20 · actually say that /org/freedesktop/DBus is the object that implements o.fd.DBus (fd.o #51865, Colin Walters) · various reorganisation for better clarity (fd.o #38252, Simon McVittie) · stop claiming that all basic types work just like INT32 (strings don't!) • The "source code" for the man pages is now Docbook XML, eliminating the outdated duplicate copies used when building with CMake. (fd.o #59805; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) Fixes: • In the activation helper, when compiled for tests, do not reset the system bus address, fixing the regression tests. (fd.o #52202, Simon) • Fix building with Valgrind 3.8, at the cost of causing harmless warnings with Valgrind 3.6 on some compilers (fd.o #55932, Arun Raghavan) • Merge from system-local.conf if necessary (fd.o #51560, Krzysztof Konopko) • Under CMake, prefer xmlto over meinproc (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) • Stop duplicating CMake's own logic to find libexpat (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) • Don't assume CMake host and build system are the same (fd.o #59733, Ralf Habacker) • Avoid deprecation warnings for GLib 2.35 (fd.o #59971, Simon McVittie) • Unix-specific: · Check for functions in libpthread correctly, fixing compilation on (at least) OpenBSD (fd.o #47239, Simon) · Don't leak temporary fds pointing to /dev/null (fd.o #56927, Michel HERMIER) · Update sd-daemon.[ch] from systemd (fd.o #60681) · Add partial support for QNX (fd.o #60339, fd.o #61176; Matt Fischer) • Windows-specific: · The default session bus listening and connecting address is now "autolaunch:", which makes D-Bus on Windows interoperate with itself and GDBus "out of the box". Use the configure options and cmake variables described above if you require a different autolaunch scope. (fd.o #38201, Simon McVittie) · Avoid a CMake warning under Cygwin (fd.o #59401, Ralf Habacker) • Create session.d, system.d directories under CMake (fd.o #41319, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.6.8 (2012-09-28) == The "Fix one thing, break another" release. • Follow up to CVE-2012-3524: The additional hardening work to use __secure_getenv() as a followup to bug #52202 broke certain configurations of gnome-keyring. Given the difficulty of making this work without extensive changes to gnome-keyring, use of __secure_getenv() is deferred. D-Bus 1.6.6 (2012-09-28) == The "Clear the environment in your setuid binaries, please" release. • CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables (fd.o #52202) Thanks to work and input from Colin Walters, Simon McVittie, Geoffrey Thomas, and others. • Unix-specific: · Fix compilation on Solaris (fd.o #53286, Jonathan Perkin) · Work around interdependent headers on OpenBSD by including sys/types.h before each use of sys/socket.h (fd.o #54418, Brad Smith) D-Bus 1.6.4 (2012-07-18) == • Detect that users are "at the console" correctly when configured with a non-default path such as --enable-console-auth-dir=/run/console (fd.o #51521, Dave Reisner) • Remove an incorrect assertion from DBusTransport (fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie) • Make --enable-developer default to "no" (regression in 1.6.2; fd.o #51657, Simon McVittie) • Windows-specific: · Launch dbus-daemon correctly if its path contains a space (fd.o #49450, Wolfgang Baron) D-Bus 1.6.2 (2012-06-27) == The "Ice Cabbage" release. • Change how we create /var/lib/dbus so it works under Automake >= 1.11.4 (fd.o #51406, Simon McVittie) • Don't return from dbus_pending_call_set_notify with a lock held on OOM (fd.o #51032, Simon McVittie) • Disconnect "developer mode" (assertions, verbose mode etc.) from Automake maintainer mode. D-Bus developers should now configure with --enable-developer. Automake maintainer mode is now on by default; distributions can disable it with --disable-maintainer-mode. (fd.o #34671, Simon McVittie) • Automatically define DBUS_STATIC_BUILD in static-only Autotools builds, fixing linking when targeting Windows (fd.o #33973; william, Simon McVittie) • Unix-specific: · Check for libpthread under CMake on Unix (fd.o #47237, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.6.0 (2012-06-05) == The “soul of this machine has improved” release. This version starts a new stable branch of D-Bus: only bug fixes will be accepted into 1.6.x. Other changes will now go to the 1.7.x branch. Summary of changes since 1.4.x: • New requirements · PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE on Unix · compiler support for 64-bit integers (int64_t or equivalent) • D-Bus Specification v0.19 • New dbus-daemon features · rules allow the service to own names like com.example.Service.Instance3 · optional systemd integration when checking at_console policies · --nopidfile option, mainly for use by systemd · path_namespace and arg0namespace may appear in match rules · eavesdropping is disabled unless the match rule contains eavesdrop=true • New public API · functions to validate various string types (dbus_validate_path() etc.) · dbus_type_is_valid() · DBusBasicValue, a union of every basic type • Bug fixes · removed an unsafe reimplementation of recursive mutexes · dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has far too many file descriptors · dbus-daemon.exe --print-address works on Windows · all the other bug fixes from 1.4.20 • Other major implementation changes · on Linux, dbus-daemon uses epoll if supported, for better scalability · dbus_threads_init() ignores its argument and behaves like dbus_threads_init_default() instead · removed the per-connection link cache, improving dbus-daemon performance • Developer features · optional Valgrind instrumentation (--with-valgrind) · optional Stats interface on the dbus-daemon (--enable-stats) · optionally abort whenever malloc() fails (--enable-embedded-tests and export DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL=1) Changes since 1.5.12: • Be more careful about monotonic time vs. real time, fixing DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 spec-compliance (fd.o #48580, David Zeuthen) • Don't use install(1) within the source/build trees, fixing the build as non-root when using OpenBSD install(1) (fd.o #48217, Antoine Jacoutot) • Add missing commas in some tcp and nonce-tcp addresses, and remove an unused duplicate copy of the nonce-tcp transport in Windows builds (fd.o #45896, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.5.12 (2012-03-27) == The “Big Book of Science” release. • Add public API to validate various string types: dbus_validate_path(), dbus_validate_interface(), dbus_validate_member(), dbus_validate_error_name(), dbus_validate_bus_name(), dbus_validate_utf8() (fd.o #39549, Simon McVittie) • Turn DBusBasicValue into public API so bindings don't need to invent their own "union of everything" type (fd.o #11191, Simon McVittie) • Enumerate data files included in the build rather than using find(1) (fd.o #33840, Simon McVittie) • Add support for policy rules like in dbus-daemon (fd.o #46273, Alban Crequy) • Windows-specific: · make dbus-daemon.exe --print-address (and --print-pid) work again on Win32, but not on WinCE (fd.o #46049, Simon McVittie) · fix duplicate case value when compiling against mingw-w64 (fd.o #47321, Andoni Morales Alastruey) D-Bus 1.5.10 (2012-02-21) == The "fire in Delerium" release. On Unix platforms, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE (as specified in POSIX 2008 Base and SUSv2) is now required. • D-Bus Specification 0.19: · Formally define unique connection names and well-known bus names, and document best practices for interface, bus, member and error names, and object paths (fd.o #37095, Simon McVittie) · Document the search path for session and system services on Unix, and where they should be installed by build systems (fd.o #21620, fd.o #35306; Simon McVittie) · Document the systemd transport (fd.o #35232, Lennart Poettering) • Make dbus_threads_init() use the same built-in threading implementation as dbus_threads_init_default(); the user-specified primitives that it takes as a parameter are now ignored (fd.o #43744, Simon McVittie) • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106, Pavel Strashkin) • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker): · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027) · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029) · only create batch files on Windows · fix option and cache syntax · add help-options target · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our own version (fd.o #41033) • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie) • Avoid use of deprecated GThread API (fd.o #44413, Martin Pitt) • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel) • Improve test coverage. To get even more coverage, run the tests with DBUS_TEST_SLOW=1 (fd.o #38285, #42811; Simon McVittie) • Reduce the size of the shared library by moving functionality only used by dbus-daemon, tests etc. into their internal library and deleting unused code (fd.o #34976, #39759; Simon McVittie) • Add dbus-daemon --nopidfile option, overriding the configuration, for setups where the default configuration must include to avoid breaking traditional init, but the pid file is in fact unnecessary; use it under systemd to improve startup time a bit (fd.o #45520, Lennart Poettering) • Optionally (if configured --with-valgrind) add instrumentation to debug libdbus and associated tools more meaningfully under Valgrind (fd.o #37286, Simon McVittie) • Improve the dbus-send(1) man page (fd.o #14005, Simon McVittie) • Make dbus-protocol.h compatible with C++11 (fd.o #46147, Marc Mutz) • If tests are enabled and DBUS_MALLOC_CANNOT_FAIL is set in the environment, abort on failure to malloc() (like GLib does), to turn runaway memory leaks into a debuggable core-dump if a resource limit is applied (fd.o #41048, Simon McVittie) • Don't crash if realloc() returns NULL in a debug build (fd.o #41048, Simon McVittie) • Unix-specific: · Replace our broken reimplementation of recursive mutexes, which has been broken since 2006, with an ordinary pthreads recursive mutex (fd.o #43744; Sigmund Augdal, Simon McVittie) · Use epoll(7) for a more efficient main loop in Linux; equivalent patches welcomed for other OSs' equivalents like kqueue, /dev/poll, or Solaris event ports (fd.o #33337; Simon McVittie, Ralf Habacker) · When running under systemd, use it instead of ConsoleKit to check whether to apply at_console policies (fd.o #39609, Lennart Poettering) · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie) · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)   · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck' (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie) · Stop pretending we respect XDG_DATA_DIRS for system services: the launch helper doesn't obey environment variables to avoid privilege escalation attacks, so make the system bus follow the same rules (fd.o #21620, Simon McVittie) • Windows-specific: · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558; Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker) · Remove the faulty implementation of _dbus_condvar_wake_all (fd.o #44609, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.5.8 (2011-09-21) == The "cross-metering" release. In addition to dead code removal and refactoring, this release contains all of the bugfixes from 1.4.16. • Clean up dead code, and make more warnings fatal in development builds (fd.o #39231, fd.o #41012; Simon McVittie) • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not, and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie) • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker) • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie) • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters) • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636, Simon McVittie) • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker) • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir) (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo) • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie) • Unix-specific: · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656; Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie) · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb) · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228, Simon McVittie) · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h, like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen) · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie) · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie) · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie) • Windows-specific: · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie) · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie) · Fix cross-compilation to Windows with Automake (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie) D-Bus 1.5.6 (2011-07-29) == The "weird, gravy-like aftertaste" release. In addition to new features and refactoring, this release contains all of the bugfixes from 1.4.14. Potentially incompatible (Bustle and similar debugging tools will need changes to work as intended): • Do not allow match rules to "eavesdrop" (receive messages intended for a different recipient) by mistake: eavesdroppers must now opt-in to this behaviour by putting "eavesdrop='true'" in the match rule, which will not have any practical effect on buses where eavesdropping is not allowed (fd.o #37890, Cosimo Alfarano) Other changes: • D-Bus Specification version 0.18 (fd.o #37890, fd.o #39450, fd.o #38252; Cosimo Alfarano, Simon McVittie) · add the "eavesdrop" keyword to match rules · define eavesdropping, unicast messages and broadcast messages · stop claiming that match rules are needed to match unicast messages to you · promote the type system to be a top-level section • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE, and simplify object-path registration (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš) • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie) • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258, Simon McVittie) • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie) • The dbus-daemon no longer busy-loops if it has a very large number of file descriptors (fd.o #23194, Simon McVittie) • Refactor message flow through dispatching to avoid locking violations if the bus daemon's message limit is hit; remove the per-connection link cache, which was meant to improve performance, but now reduces it (fd.o #34393, Simon McVittie) • Some cmake fixes (Ralf Habacker) • Remove dead code, mainly from DBusString (fd.o #38570, fd.o #39610; Simon McVittie, Lennart Poettering) • Stop storing two extra byte order indicators in each D-Bus message (fd.o #38287, Simon McVittie) • Add an optional Stats interface which can be used to get statistics from a running dbus-daemon if enabled at configure time with --enable-stats (fd.o #34040, Simon McVittie) • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie) • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie): · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir}) • Unix-specific: · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib, even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64, /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering) · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie) • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker): · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound D-Bus 1.5.4 (2011-06-10) == Security (local denial of service): • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7) (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie) New things: • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name, DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX) which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus. • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built, providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via ./configure --enable-installed-tests for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie) Changes: • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount, fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie) • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie) • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli) • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie) • Windows-specific changes: · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand) D-Bus 1.5.2 (2011-06-01) == The "Boar Hunter" release. Notes for distributors: This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their toolchain supports it reliably, via something like: ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper. Changes: • D-Bus Specification v0.17 · Reserve the extra characters used in signatures by GVariant (fd.o #34529, Simon McVittie) · Define the ObjectManager interface (fd.o #34869, David Zeuthen) • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie) • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie) • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato) • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie) • Don't force users of libdbus to be linked against -lpthread, -lrt (fd.o #32827, Simon McVittie) • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705, Colin Walters) • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358, Simon McVittie) • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie) • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering) • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie) • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus, rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson) • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie) • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie) • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681, Simon McVittie) • Windows: • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker) D-Bus 1.5.0 (2011-04-11) == The "you never know when you need to tow something from your giant flying shark" release. • D-Bus Specification v0.16 · Add support for path_namespace and arg0namespace in match rules (fd.o #24317, #34870; Will Thompson, David Zeuthen, Simon McVittie) · Make argNpath support object paths, not just object-path-like strings, and document it better (fd.o #31818, Will Thompson) • Let the bus daemon implement more than one interface (fd.o #33757, Simon McVittie) • Optimize _dbus_string_replace_len to reduce waste (fd.o #21261, Roberto Guido) • Require user intervention to compile with missing 64-bit support (fd.o #35114, Simon McVittie) • Add dbus_type_is_valid as public API (fd.o #20496, Simon McVittie) • Raise UnknownObject instead of UnknownMethod for calls to methods on paths that are not part of the object tree, and UnknownInterface for calls to unknown interfaces in the bus daemon (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering) D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08) == The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release. • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie) • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496, Anders Kaseorg) • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie) • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495, Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen) • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie) • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering) • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie) • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg) • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec= (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters) • Windows: · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h (Andre Heinecke) · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand) D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17) == The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release. • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests, which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17) == • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes, which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157) • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895) • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL (fd.o #32262, NB#180486) • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262, fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486) • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854) • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486) • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710) • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190) • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284, fd.o #15922, LP#241619) • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186, Debian #230231) • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285, fd.o #34292) • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration (fd.o #33474, LP#381063) • Fix syslog string processing • Ignore -Waddress • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887) • Windows: · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables • OpenBSD: · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542) • Solaris: · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464) D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010) == • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this issue. • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support. • Windows autolaunch improvements. • Various bug fixes. D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010) == - systemd hookup D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010) == - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms - Support forking bus services, for compatibility D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009) == - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address) - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation) - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up) and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4) - feature negotiation in the bus daemon