- Update from 1.12.20 to 1.14.0
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
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:
**Looking through these I don't believe they will cause a problem as they are
deprecations and not yet removed.In the future if needed we might need to set
datadir to /etc to keep the location the same as with syscondir. This won't be
needed if we don't use the system.d directory for dbus policies.
• 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
<allow_anonymous/> 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, <policy group="…"> 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 <allow> and <deny> 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.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
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