Announcing dbus 1.8.0

[Simon McVittie]

The “Wolverine distrusts my printer” release.

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.8.0
new git branch: dbus-1.8

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be outdated, and will only receive fixes for serious bugs such as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• dbus-monitor can talk to outdated versions of dbus-daemon again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 <allow_anonymous/> 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.