Announcing dbus 1.11.16

[Simon McVittie]

The “south facing garden” release.

1.11.x is a development branch for the adventurous, which will
eventually lead to a 1.12.x stable branch.

https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.11.16.tar.gz
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.11.16.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.11.16
git branch: master

Build-time configuration changes:

• The Autotools build system now supports varying ${runstatedir}
  independently of ${localstatedir}, if using an Autoconf version
  that has that feature; version 2.70 will eventually have this, but
  many Linux distributions add it to version 2.69 as a patch.
  A typical use is to set prefix=/usr, sysconfdir=/etc, localstatedir=/var
  and runstatedir=/run. (fd.o #101569, Simon McVittie)

Enhancements:

• New APIs DBUS_MESSAGE_ITER_INIT_CLOSED, dbus_message_iter_init_closed()
  and dbus_message_iter_abandon_container_if_open() simplify the
  single-exit-point ("goto out") style of resource cleanup. The API
  documentation around DBusMessageIter and containers has also been
  clarified. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

Fixes:

• Fix the implementation of re-enabling a timeout (again) so that its
  countdown is always restarted as intended. (fd.o #95619,
  Michal Koutný)

• Make the dbus-daemon's Properties interface, as introduced in 1.11.14,
  available to all users on the system bus (fd.o #101700, Simon McVittie)

• dbus_message_iter_append_basic() no longer leaks memory if it fails to
  append a file descriptor to a message. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• dbus_message_iter_open_container() no longer leaks memory if it runs out
  of memory. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• dbus_message_append_args_valist() no longer leaks memory if given an
  unsupported type. This situation is still considered to be a programming
  error which needs to be corrected by the user of libdbus.
  (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• dbus_message_iter_append_basic() and dbus_message_iter_open_container()
  will no longer report that their arguments were invalid if they run out
  of memory at exactly the wrong time. (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• Ensure that tests fail if they would otherwise have tried to connect to
  the real session bus (fd.o #101698, Simon McVittie)

• Make build-time tests cope with finding Python 3, but not Python 2
  (fd.o #101716, Simon McVittie)

Internal changes relevant to dbus developers:

• DBusVariant is a new mechanism to copy single values from a message into
  a buffer without copying the entire message (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL has been replaced by DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_ERROR.
  Logging an ERROR message does not make the process exit; the caller
  is responsible for calling abort() or exit(), whichever is more appropriate.
  (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)

• Better test coverage (fd.o #101568, Simon McVittie)


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Simon McVittie
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