Announcing D-Bus 1.8.14

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 03:56 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 05/01/15 15:04, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > • Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats
> >   interface on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus.
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that this causes KDE Plasma 5 to regress: unlike
> the equivalent code in gnome-session, recent versions of startkde expect
> to be able to call UpdateActivationEnvironment on the non-canonical path
> "/". My check in codesearch.debian.net did not find this, since it is a
> relatively recent addition.
> 
> I'm somewhat reluctant to revert this change, because I am aware of at
> least one software package which incorrectly allows arbitrary calls at
> "/" on any service (currently embargoed, so no specifics yet, sorry);
> but if anyone needs a quick hack, removing these lines from
> bus_driver_handle_update_activation_environment() should do it.

Perhaps it's simplest to relax the policy only for the session bus?