D-Bus version 0.60 - “In a Queue of its Own” has just been released. This release takes care of most of the major API/ABI changes needed before we go 1.0. The focus has been on the latest change to the RequestName queuing system. Details of the new system can be read in the D-Bus specification distributed in the docs directory of the tarball.

The reasoning for moving to 0.60 instead of jumping to 0.90 is that the new queuing system is a major change and has not been thoroughly tested in real world applications. I encourage people to play with it and give their opinions. If there are problems with the system we are still open to changes but if all goes well this will be the 1.0 API. About the only other ABI change on hand is increasing the limit on the size of a signature. The previous patch was inadequate to make it into this release.

As of right now all D-Bus development should focus on fixing bugs, writing documentation and getting the bindings into shape. Sans changes in the RequestName API I don’t expect to see any more API changes to the core library. I want to aggressively push for the end of December to be when we release 1.0. D-Bus has proven to be a great development platform, now it needs to be a stable and supported one.

As usual:

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-0.60.tar.gz

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