Announcing dbus 1.15.12 (development release)

[Simon McVittie]

dbus is the reference implementation of D-Bus, a message bus for
communication between applications and system services.

This is a development release for early adopters. If in doubt, please
use dbus 1.14.x instead, especially in stable OS distributions.

<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.15.12.tar.xz>
<http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.15.12.tar.xz.asc>
git tag: dbus-1.15.12
This release was signed by Simon McVittie, GPG key available via WKD:
    gpg --locate-external-keys smcv at debian.org

Release notes
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Enhancements:

• D-Bus Specification 0.43:
  · Recommend loading system services from /etc/dbus-1/system-services
    and /run/dbus-1/system-services (dbus!467, Luca Boccassi)
  · Reorganise documentation of the message bus to make it easier to add
    new interfaces (dbus!472, Simon McVittie)
  · Document o.fd.DBus.Debug.Stats interface (dbus!472, Simon McVittie)
  · Document o.fd.DBus.Verbose interface (dbus!472, Simon McVittie)
  · Formatting improvements (dbus!471, dbus!472; Simon McVittie)
  · Don't imply that all clients need to support obsolete message bus
    implementations (dbus!471, Simon McVittie)

• API design advice:
  · Document typical approaches to emulating nullable types in the D-Bus
    type system (dbus!446, Zeeshan Ali Khan)

• On Unix, additionally load system services from:
  · /etc/dbus-1/system-services, reserved for use by either the local system
    administrator, or software such as asset managers and configuration
    management frameworks acting on their behalf
  · /run/dbus-1/system-services, for ephemeral services
  (dbus!467, Luca Boccassi)

Bug fixes:

• Increase file descriptor soft limit to hard limit before testing file
  descriptor passing, and correctly skip the test for flooding the bus
  with fds when the limit is too low, fixing test failures on Solaris
  (dbus#176, Alan Coopersmith)

• When building API documentation with Doxygen, always generate a working
  link in the index HTML page
  (dbus#519, dbus!470; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)

• When building with Meson, add (more) test dependencies so that 'meson test'
  does not always need to be preceded by 'meson compile'
  (dbus!468, Simon McVittie)

• When installing with Meson, don't fail if we are installing as root but
  the user/group that will own the setuid dbus-daemon-launch-helper do not
  yet exist (dbus#492, Jordan Williams)

• When building with Meson on Solaris, fix detection and build of
  Solaris audit API integration
  (dbus!477, Alan Coopersmith)

• Fix service activation timeouts when built with embedded tests (test
  instrumentation) and run on a platform with a large file descriptor limit
  (dbus#527, Simon McVittie)

• Fix test failures on platforms where deleting the current working
  directory is not allowed, such as Solaris
  (dbus!480, Alan Coopersmith)

Internal changes:

• CI fixes (dbus!474, Simon McVittie)

-- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd. / Debian
on behalf of the dbus maintainers