Changes in dconf 0.33.2
=======================
- Drop references to GDBusConnection objects when D-Bus connections are closed
(Andre Magalhaes, #51)
Changes in dconf 0.33.1
=======================
- Factor out a common method to route completion of D-Bus methods through
(Cosimo Cecchi, #29)
- build: Use weak bindings in gvdb to fix linking with LLD
(Ting-Wei Lan, #28)
The motivation is to consider meson as an application, so there is only
one copy on the system, and as a python 3 program, it can build python 2
packages.
Changes in dconf 0.32.0
=======================
- No changes since 0.31.92
Changes in dconf 0.31.92
========================
- bin: Add an option to ignore changes to locked keys during load
(Tomasz Miąsko; #1; !43)
- tests: Use more concise key and value (Tomasz Miąsko; #1; !43)
- tests: shm: fix pwrite wrapper with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (Ben Wolsieffer; !37)
- tests: replace usage of dlsym with separate modules containing functions that need to be mocked out
(Daniel Playfair Cal; !37)
- tests: Avoid using real system bus during tests
(Tomasz Miąsko; #51; !45)
Changes in dconf 0.31.2
=======================
- Bin: rewrite dconf utility in C. Updates are no longer conditional on
the mtime of the database directory and files. Help information is shown
on erroneous usage, but not otherwise. (Tomasz Miąsko; !39)
- build: Make dconf client vapi file installation optional, and thus the
Vala dependency optional (still built by default) (Tomasz Miąsko; !40)
- bin: Add a new database directory argument for the update command
(Tomasz Miąsko, Takao Fujiwara; !39, !41)
Changes in dconf 0.31.1
=======================
- Engine: Fix memory leak when subscribing to a path. (Guido Günther; !25)
- CI: Always store test artifacts so we always get code coverage results.
(Philip Withnall; !32)
- Sort output of list and dump commands. (Tomasz Miąsko; !31)
- Tests: Add integration tests for dconf and dconf-service running within
a separate D-Bus session and clean XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
(Tomasz Miąsko; !31)
- Engine: Coalesce pending writes into a single changeset.
(Tomasz Miąsko; !30)
- Consistently validate the number of arguments.
Add optional directory argument for update command.
(Tomasz Miąsko; !33)
- Tests: Add further integration tests (Tomasz Miąsko; !33)
- Check mtimes of files when updating databases. (Marek Kasik; !27; #11)
- Indicate update failure with non-zero exit code. Consistently handle
invalid configuration in update. (Tomasz Miąsko; !34; #42)
- Replace Bugzilla by Gitlab URL in DOAP file. (Andre Klapper)
- Tests: Add test for key paths locked in system databases
(Tomasz Miąsko; !35)
Changes in dconf 0.30.1
=======================
- Engine: Fix memory leak when subscribing to a path
(Guido Günther; !25)
Changes in dconf 0.30.0
=======================
None.
Changes in dconf 0.29.2
=======================
- Service: When corrupt GVDB files are found, they are now
transparently backed up and replaced with an empty database.
(Philip Withnall, !8)
- Replace all hard-coded /etc path with sysconfdir. This is useful for
JHBuild environments and systems that don't want to use /etc/dconf.
(Ting-Wei Lan; !21, #739229)
- Engine: Change overflow thresholds in subscription counts from
GMAXUINT32 to GMAXUINT (Daniel Playfair Cal; !20)
- Change meson flag used to build Gtk-Doc from enable-gtk-doc to
gtk_doc (Daniel Playfair Cal; !19)
- Declare libdconf_service as a dependency to fix the build in
massively parallelised environments (Emmanuele Bassi; !22)
Changes in dconf 0.29.1
=======================
- Engine: track in progress watch handles to avoid spurious changed
signals for the root path. Subscription requests are no longer sent
if the engine is already subscribed to the given path. In the case
that some value changes while a subscription request is in progress,
a changed signal is only sent for the path being subscribed to
instead of the root path. (Daniel Playfair Cal; !1, !5, #790640)
- Engine: fix deadlock which occured when using the engine from libsoup
within flatpak by extending the existing workaround for Glib !541, aka
#674885. GSocket and various other GObject types are now also
initialised in the main thread. (Owen Taylor; !15)
- Add transfer annotations to the GTK-Doc strings for functions in the
dconf_changeset_* and dconf_client_* namespaces (Xavier Claessens,
Philip Withnall; !9, #758903)
- Update GVDB subtree from GVDB master, containing mostly documentation
improvements (Philip Withnall; !17)
- dconf-update.vala: correct error message grammar (Kenyon Ralph; !6)
- Various meson related improvements (Iñigo Martínez; !11)
- Add GitLab CI (Philip Withnall; !10)
- Service: Port from the deprecated g_type_class_add_private() to
G_ADD_PRIVATE() (Philip Withnall; !7)
- Add Daniel Playfair Cal and Philip Withnall as maintainers (Philip
Withnall)
- Revert "Move gdbus-codegen users to py-glib2-tools by including
glib2/buildtools.mk" 1f764df
- while here change to TOOL_DEPENDS
- switch from py-glib2-tools to glib2-tools
XXX is SUBST_CLASSES.Darwin+= libname still needed?
Changes in dconf 0.26.0
========================
None.
Changes in dconf 0.25.1
========================
- the libdbus-1 backend has been removed. dconf now always uses GDBus.
- support has been added for system administration frameworks to set up
the dconf profile via a file placed in the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or in
/run/dconf/. In the case of the file in /run/dconf/, it is not
possible to modify the proile, even via the DCONF_PROFILE environment
variable, which makes it slightly more difficult to evade lockdown.
- directory resets are now implemented properly in DConfChangeset which
means that reading a subkey through a changeset that contains a reset
for a parent directory of that key will return TRUE with a NULL value
- a new API dconf_client_read_full() has been added which allows
reading the user value, the default value, or querying what the
effective value would be if a changeset were to be applied.
- a new API has been added for listing the locks that are in effect:
dconf_client_list_locks()
- DConfClient has a new "writability-changed" signal
- support for reading default values and listing locks have been added
to the dconf commandline tool
- support for g_autoptr() has been added for DConfClient and
DConfChangeset
- the handling of reading of default values via GSettings has been made
more efficient. More major changes to the GSettings backend are
expected in the near future.
Changes in dconf 0.24.0
========================
The version number was increased and a new entry was added to the NEWS.
Changes in dconf 0.23.2
========================
- remove dconf-editor manpage (accidentally missed during the split)
- fix whitespace issues in 'dconf --help'
Changes in dconf 0.23.1
========================
- dconf-editor is now in a separate package
- portability improvements
Changes in dconf 0.22.0
========================
- fix handling of floating point keys in editor
- update appdata for renamed desktop file
- minor doap changes
Translations:
French
Indonesian
Lithuanian
Hungarian
Catalan (Valencian)
Korean
Traditional Chinese
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Galician translations
Catalan
Basque language
Danish
Norwegian bokmal
Greek
Czech
Slovenian
Swedish
Polish
Latvian
Hebrew
Russian
German
Assamese
Serbian
Changes in dconf 0.21.0
========================
- editor desktop file renamed to ca.desrt.dconf-editor to take advantage of
D-Bus activation
- prevent the service from being released more than once if we receive
multiple signals (which caused a hang)
Translations:
Indonesian
Greek
Swedish
Changes in dconf 0.20.0
========================
Czech translation updated.
Changes in dconf 0.19.92
=========================
- depend on automake 1.11.2
- stop using ACLOCAL_FLAGS
- depend on released version of Vala (0.18.0)
Changes in dconf 0.19.91
=========================
- fix an unlikely failure in the fuzz testing of gvdb
- fix a thread safety issue with file-db
Changes in dconf 0.19.90
=========================
- dconf compile: always write little endian
- file-db: don't install match rules on no bus (fixes gdbus assertion)
- update dconf(1) manpage for 'dconf compile'
- fix 'make clean' on FreeBSD
- editor: provide appdata
Translations updates:
Ukrainian translation
Aragonese translation
Chinese
Changes in dconf 0.19.3
========================
- quite a lot of test coverage improvements
- Add a proper DCONF_ERROR error domain
- suppress GLib deprecation warnings during build
- engine: issue warnings about missing files only once per source
- engine: grok the WritabilityNotify signal from D-Bus
- gsettings: handle writability changes correctly
- engine: assorted fixes for issues found during testing
- portability: only link to -ldl if it is required
- add support for 'file-db' to profiles: this is an absolute path to a
immutable dconf database file
- add support for finding profiles in XDG_DATA_DIRS if they are not in
/etc
- add 'dconf compile' command for building dconf databases from
keyfiles in arbitrary locations (like from the build system of a
project that may want to install a file-db)
- editor: add a section separator to the app menu for consistency
Changes in dconf 0.19.2
========================
- Add support for the new GSettingsBackend.read_user_value() API
- bump GLib version depend accordingly (2.39.1)
Translations updates:
Greek
Catalan (Valencian)
Simplified Chinese
Persian
Many improvements, bug fixes and translation updates:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/dconf/tree/NEWS?id=0.16.0
Highlights:
This release more or less completes the rewriting of dconf-service.
Support for backends are now fully-realised (and we have a couple of
them as proof). Many small bugs (some with serious symptoms) have been
fixed vs. the last release.
- new icons: hicolor icons have been updated and a HighContrast set
added
- loosen some assertions on the order of messages being returned from
the service. D-Bus violates this order in the case that the service
crashes and that's no reason to take the client with it as well.
- add some backends to the dconf-service (that were 'considered' as per
the last NEWS). The first backend is a null backend that allows for
a temporary database tied to the lifetime of the session, possibly
useful for testing.
- also add a new 'keyfile' backend for the service. This is primarily
intended to be used with NFS (where use of mmap is not safe)
- add a mkdir() in the case of an empty home directory where
~/.config/dconf does not already exist
- the service has been substantially rewritten
- using gdbus-codegen
- cache the file contents instead of read/modify/write each time
- new DConfWriter abstraction allows considering support for backends
- uses only POSIX IO (read and write syscalls) for database access
- workaround mmap() bug on OpenBSD
Upstream's makefiles have hardcoded warning options that are only
understood by new gcc (and not by 4.1.3. Transform
-Wno-unused-but-set-variable to -Wno-unused-variable to enable
building on NetBSD-5.
Bump dependency in buildlink3.mk since its only user is dconf-editor.
Set LICENSE.
Add comments to patches.
Changes in dconf 0.10.0
=======================
The version number was increased and a new entry was added to the NEWS.
Changes in dconf 0.9.1
======================
- give a g_warning() on failure to communicate with service
- remove unworking 'set lock' call from dconf API and commandline tool
- add code to exit gracefully on receipt of SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGTERM
- remove "service function" logic; always use the XDG runtime directory
Changes in dconf 0.9.0
======================
There has been an extremely minor incompatible change in the D-Bus API
of dconf this release. From a practical standpoint, this change will
have no effect. However, it serves as a reminder that the dconf D-Bus
API is private and can change from version to version (and will likely
change in the future).
As such, it is appropriate for those packaging dconf to kill all running
instances of dconf ('killall dconf-service') as part of their postinst
for the package. It will be dbus-activated again on the next use.
- support loading/storing of maybe types in dconf
- remove NFS detection hackery and rely on XDG runtime dir
- add proper support for change notification to DConfClient
- commandline tool improvements
- reset: reset keys or entire subpaths
- dump: dump entire subpaths to keyfile format
- load: load them back again (maybe at a different path)
- watch: actually works now
- editor improvements
- keys now change in editor when changed from outside
- support for flags
- show dconf-editor in applications list
- work around incompatible Vala bindings changes with an #if
- don't install the bash completion script as executable
- fix a warning caused by reusing a GError variable
- other small fixes
Changes in dconf 0.7.5
======================
This release corrects a serious flaw in the previous release: crashing
if the database did not already exist.
It also contains many fixes and improvements to the dconf-editor,
including use of GSettings to store the window geometry.
This is the final release before 0.8.0 which will become the first
release in a new stable series. Feature development will continue on
'master' toward 0.9 past that point.
Changes in dconf 0.7.4
======================
Changes in this version:
- #648949: multithreading issue fixed (which actually affects all
GSettings-using programs since dconf is used from a helper thread in
that case)
- dconf commandline tool is vastly more friendly now
- no more aborting on unrecognised arguments
- proper help
- bash completion support
- support for sysadmin lockdown
- the editor now properly reads installed enum xml files
Changes in dconf 0.7.3
======================
This release consists almost entirely of fixes made by Robert to
dconf-editor. A few other trivial build fixes are included as well
(bumping library version dependencies to match reality, etc).
Changes in dconf 0.7.2
======================
This is entirely a cleanup/fixes release. Some fixes here to make the
increasingly-strict toolchain happy, and also some fixes for some
crashers in the GSettings backend and service.
- remove some unused variables (new GCC gives a warning: #640566, another)
- add a mutex to fix multi-threading issue (#640611)
- don't crash if we have no D-Bus
- clean up symbol exports
- fix a crash in the service when using 'reset'
- drop old linker options that were for libtool
Changes in dconf 0.7.1
======================
The last release contained a few problems that caused build failures on
some strict linkers. Those should be fixed now.
Changes in dconf 0.7
====================
- new library to use dconf with libdbus-1
- quite a lot of improvements and bug-fixes in dconf-editor, thanks to
Robert Ancell
- some bug fixes in the GSettings backend (crashers caused by use if
custom dconf profiles)
- some FreeBSD build fixes
- increased Vala dependency to 0.11.4 (required for dconf-editor fixes)
Changes in dconf 0.6
====================
- Rewrite a lot of the GSettings backend to reduce GDBus abuse. We use
our own worker thread now instead of trying to hijack GDBus's.
- disable gobject-introspection support for now
- drop support for GTK2 in dconf-editor
- Add a new torture-test case
- Increase dbus timeout to 2 minutes (in case the service is heavily loaded)
- Fix several memory leaks and other bugs
