Announcing dbus 1.13.2

Simon McVittie smcv at collabora.com
Fri Mar 2 01:33:58 UTC 2018


The “can break a man's arm” release.

This is still a development branch for the adventurous, and comes with a
risk of regressions. OS distributions should stay with the 1.12.x branch,
unless they can commit to following the 1.13.x branch until it reaches
a 1.14.0 stable release at an unspecified point in the future.

In particular, the new Containers API is subject to change and shouldn't
be enabled in distributions yet, even those aimed at early adopters.

<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.13.2.tar.gz>
<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.13.2.tar.gz.asc>
git tag: dbus-1.13.2

Enhancements:

• When a container manager creates an extra server at runtime, services
  can now request that messages from connections to that server are
  tagged with the container instance ID, providing a fast-path for
  identifying such connections. (fd.o #101899, Simon McVittie)

Fixes:

• Increase system dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit before it drops
  privileges, because it won't have permission afterwards. This fixes a
  regression in dbus 1.10.18 and 1.11.0 which made the standard system bus
  more susceptible to deliberate or accidental denial of service.
  (fd.o #105165, David King)

-- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd.


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