NEWS for master

NEWS

@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ Build-time configuration changes:
   assertions. It has been renamed to DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERT to be consistent
   with the Autotools build system. (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
 
+Enhancements:
+
+• Be thread-safe by default on all platforms, even if
+  dbus_threads_init_default() has not been called. For compatibility with
+  older libdbus, library users should continue to call
+  dbus_threads_init_default(): it is harmless to do so.
+  (fd.o #54972, Simon McVittie)
+
 Fixes:
 
 • Don't crash on "dbus-send --session / x.y.z" which regressed in 1.7.4.
@@ -18,10 +26,23 @@ Fixes:
 • If malloc() returns NULL in dbus_set_error(), don't va_end() a va_list
   that was never va_start()ed (fd.o #66300, Chengwei Yang)
 
+• fix build failure with --enable-stats (fd.o #66004, Chengwei Yang)
+
+• Unix-specific:
+  · dbus-run-session: compile on FreeBSD (fd.o #66197, Chengwei Yang)
+
 • Windows-specific:
   · Remove unavailable command-line options from 'dbus-daemon --help'
     (fd.o #42441, Ralf Habacker)
 
+• Internal changes:
+  · add DBUS_ENABLE_ASSERT, DBUS_ENABLE_CHECKS for less confusing
+    conditionals (fd.o #66142, Chengwei Yang)
+  · improve verbose-mode output (fd.o #63047, Colin Walters)
+  · consolidate Autotools and CMake build (fd.o #64875, Ralf Habacker)
+  · fix various unused variables, unusual build configurations
+    etc. (fd.o #65712, #65990, #66005; Chengwei Yang)
+
 D-Bus 1.7.4 (2013-06-13)
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