Announcing dbus 1.12.0 (new stable branch)

[Simon McVittie]

The “gingerbread skull” release.

1.12.x is a new stable branch, recommended for use in OS
distributions.

https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.12.0.tar.gz
https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.12.0.tar.gz.asc
git tag: dbus-1.12.0
git branch: dbus-1.12

Summary of major changes between 1.10.x and 1.12.0
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Dependencies:

• Expat >= 2.1.0 is required.
• GLib >= 2.40 is required if full test coverage is enabled.
• [Linux] libselinux >= 2.0.86 is required if SELinux support is
  enabled.
• [Unix] dbus now requires an <inttypes.h> that defines C99 constants
  such as PRId64 and PRIu64, except when building for Windows.
• [Autotools] Building from git (but not from tarballs) with Autotools
  now requires macros from the GNU Autoconf Archive.
• [CMake] Builds done using CMake now require CMake 3.0.2.

Build-time configuration changes:

• Expat is now found using pkg-config. See the release notes for
  1.11.14.
• The --disable-compiler-optimisations and --enable-compiler-coverage
  options no longer exist.  See the release notes for 1.11.4 and 1.11.8.
• [Unix] The --enable-abstract-sockets and --disable-abstract-sockets
  options no longer exist. See the release notes for 1.11.20.
• [Unix] Flag files in /var/run/console/${username} are no longer
  checked for at_console by default. See the release notes for 1.11.18.
• [Unix, Cygwin] Init scripts are no longer provided by upstream dbus,
  and packagers will now need to add these downstream (most already do).
  See the release notes for 1.11.18.
• [Unix] The process ID file no longer has a different default location
  on Red Hat derivatives. See the release notes for 1.11.18.
• [Unix] ${runstatedir} is now independent of ${localstatedir} with
  recent Autotools versions. See the release notes for 1.11.16.
• [Windows] The WINDRES variable is no longer used. See the release
  notes for 1.11.22.

Deprecations:

• Eavesdropping is officially deprecated in favour of BecomeMonitor.
  See the release notes for spec version 0.31 (in dbus 1.11.14).
• [Unix] Flag files in /var/run/console/${username} are deprecated.
  See the release notes for 1.11.18.

New APIs:

• <allow> and <deny> rules in dbus-daemon configuration can now
  include send_broadcast="true", send_broadcast="false",
  max_unix_fds="N", min_unix_fds="N" (for some integer N).
  See the release notes for 1.11.18.
• dbus_try_get_local_machine_id() is like
  dbus_get_local_machine_id(), but returns a DBusError.
• New APIs around DBusMessageIter to simplify cleanup.
  See the release notes for 1.11.16.
• The message bus daemon now implements the standard Introspectable,
  Peer and Properties interfaces. See the release notes for
  dbus 1.11.14 and spec version 0.31.
• DTDs for introspection XML and bus configuration are installed.
• dbus can be compiled to be relocatable, making it more suitable for
  binary bundling with other software. On Windows, this is on by
  default.
• [Unix] A new unix:dir=… address family resembles unix:tmpdir=… but
  never uses Linux abstract sockets, which is advantageous for
  containers. On non-Linux it is equivalent to unix:tmpdir=….
  See the release notes for dbus 1.11.14 and spec version 0.31.
• [Unix] New option "dbus-launch --exit-with-x11".
• [Unix] Session managers can create transient .service files in
  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dbus-1/services. See the release notes for 1.11.12.
• [Unix] A sysusers.d snippet can create the messagebus user on-demand.

Miscellaneous behaviour changes:

• [Unix] The session bus now logs to syslog if it was started by
  dbus-launch.
• [Unix] Internal warnings are logged to syslog if configured.
• [Unix] Exceeding an anti-DoS limit is logged to syslog if configured,
  or to stderr.

Changes since 1.11.22 release candidate
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Standard stable-branch changes:

• Disable warnings about use of deprecated functions (Simon McVittie)

Fixes:

• Don't distribute files generated by ./configure in the source tarball
  (fd.o #103420, Simon McVittie)

Internal changes:

• Remove some unused files from the git repository
  (fd.o #103420, Simon McVittie)

-- 
Simon McVittie
Collabora Ltd.