Yep, that right folks. We are in that final stretch. I am proud to announce D-Bus 1.0 RC 3 (0.95) “There is no place like home”. Ladies and Gentlemen, this release feels pretty solid and with the addition of extra documentation detailing our API/ABI guarantees I believe you are looking at the final candidate. Of course if something big comes up that we need to fix we will do another RC release. The highlights of this release are:

  • No need to use the DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE macro when compiling an app. Guess what, we’ve been API stable for awhile now. That sucker isn’t going to change in this branch.
  • dbus-uuidgen –ensure is now run in the init script and writes to /var/lib/dbus for those all too common stateless installs such as LiveCD’s. Packagers should remember to create and own the /var/lib/dbus directory.
  • The session bus is now setup to define a couple of standard service directories specified by the XDG directory spec. Under a standard install these directories are as follows:

    /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services
    /usr/share/dbus-1/services
    $HOME/.local/share/dbus-1/services

    That is correct, a user can now override service files if say they want to test out a different notification daemon. It also allows applications that install as the user to further integrate with D-Bus.
  • There have also been a slew of fixes for *BSD variant. Unfortunately because of the lack of active *BSD developers we are not blocking on *BSD working for 1.0. Hopefully this release fixes the remaining issues and there is still a window of time to get more fixes in however, it may have to be pushed out to a point release.

As usual:

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-0.95.tar.gz

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