D-Bus 1.3.x / 1.4.0

[Thiago Macieira]

I have just changed the version number in configure.in to indicate 1.3.0, with 
library revision 8:0:5 (libtool stuff).

This branch will contain as new features (according to a simple commit log 
check):
 - 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

Thanks to Lennart for the 4 main features above.

Missing features that can still make it into 1.4:
 - support for single-precision floating point types
 - bus auto-starting on Mac OS X systems
 - Windows native support
 - anonymous connections (no authentication)

Apart from the last item, the features above have not been submitted for 
inclusion as patches to D-Bus yet. If the maintainers of such features want 
them in D-Bus 1.4.0, please speak up soon with a timeline on which your 
feature should be stable.

As for the anonymous connections, can someone take the patch from Bugzilla and 
clear the dust?

Finally, we need to agree on the timeline for the release. But until the 
maintainers of features speak up, we can't know how much time we should 
allocate for the 1.3.x series.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
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