From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:46:36 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS
X-Git-Tag: dbus-1.7.6~89
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73ded5c619cbf001efa8aa216edcdccec9b2751c;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git

NEWS

Also belatedly mention dbus-run-session in 1.7.4.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e9eff4f95..f65ddf75a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Enhancements:
 
 • 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)
+
 Fixes:
 
 • Escape addresses containing non-ASCII characters correctly
@@ -53,6 +56,8 @@ Fixes:
 • Assorted Doxygen fixes (fd.o #65755, Chengwei Yang)
 
 • Unix-specific:
+  · dbus-run-session: clear some unwanted environment variables
+    (fd.o #39196, Simon)
   · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang)
 
 • Windows-specific:
@@ -101,6 +106,12 @@ Enhancements:
 • 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