Announcing D-Bus 1.9.8

[Simon McVittie]

The “all the types of precipitation” release.

As with all the 1.odd.x releases, this is a development release for
people who live in the future. Stable distributions should use the 1.8
branch instead.

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.9.8.tar.gz
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.9.8.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.9.8

Dependencies:

• full test coverage now requires GLib 2.36
• full test coverage now requires PyGI (PyGObject 3,
  "import gi.repository.GObject") instead of the
  obsolete PyGObject 2 ("import gobject")

Enhancements:

• add GLib-style "installed tests" (fd.o #88810, Simon McVittie)

• better regression test coverage, including systemd activation
  (fd.o #57952, #88810; Simon McVittie)

Fixes:

• fatal errors correctly make the dbus-daemon exit even if <syslog/> is
  turned off (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie)

• TCP sockets on Windows no longer fail to listen approximately 1 time
  in 256, caused by a logic error that should have always made it fail
  but was mitigated by incorrect endianness for the port number
  (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker)

• fix some Windows build failures (fd.o #88009, #88010; Ralf Habacker)

• on Windows, allow up to 8K connections to the dbus-daemon instead of
  the previous 64, completing a previous fix which only worked under
  Autotools (fd.o #71297, Ralf Habacker)

• on Windows, if the IP family is unspecified only use IPv4,
  to mitigate IPv6 not working correctly (fd.o #87999, Ralf Habacker)

• fix some unlikely memory leaks on OOM (fd.o #88087, Simon McVittie)

• lcov code coverage analysis works again (fd.o #88808, Simon McVittie)

• fix an unused function error with --disable-embedded-tests
 (fd.o #87837, Thiago Macieira)

-- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd.