Announcing D-Bus 1.9.2

[Simon McVittie]

The “structurally unsound flapjack” release.

This is a development release for people who live in the future. You
probably want 1.8.10 instead.

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.9.2.tar.gz
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.9.2.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.9.2

Security fix, copied from 1.8.10:

• 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)

-- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd.
for the D-Bus maintainers