Changes since 0.33.5

• Fix introspection XML handling when exporting objects with child objects
• Improve output of Net::DBus::Dumper
• Add support for providing parameter & return value names in introspection XML
• Fixes to marshalling of variants
• Fix handling of compound data types within object properties
• Remove non-portable makefile rules
• Fix ref counting bugs in error path.

Changes since 0.33.4

• Added support for getting private bus connections for apps which don't want to deal with a shared bus
• Fix test case to use a private connection
• On Perl builds where integers are 32-bits, the DBus 64 bit integer types will be serialized to/from the Perl String type instead of calling 'die'.
• Fix signature when marshalling dicts on newer DBus builds
• Fix calling of disconnect wrt to newer DBus semantics
• Make introspection much more tolerant of missing information about methods/properties/signals.
• Fix use of magic values & added tests
• Export the Net::DBus::Dumper methods correctly.

Changes since 0.33.3

• Fixed service owner used for org.freedesktop.DBus object to make signal handling on the bus work again
• Pass return value for signal handling callbacks all the way back to DBus
• Fix multiple problems with marshalling of variant data types
• Replace use of dbus_connection_disconnect with _close when compiling against dbus >= 0.90
• Call dbus_connection_unref in the DESTROY method of connection object
• Fix reference counting in connection & pending call objects
• Added example of galago desktop notifications
• Fix test suite errors
• Added missing import statement
• Throw Net::DBus::Error if an async call fails

Changes since 0.33.2

• Fixed parsing of introspection data if there are processing instructions, or other non-data nodes before the root element.
• Replace use of XML::Grove with XML::Twig when parsing the introspection XML documents, since the former has not had any updates / bug fixes since 1999(!), and several people have reported problems using it on Perl 5.8.x
• Made all Perl scripts / modules / tests use 'strict' and 'warnings' pragmas
• Turn Net::DBus::Error into fully fledged object which services can sub-class to allow explicit error handling by clients.
• In _dispatch method of Net::DBus::Object ensure that any instances of Net::DBus::Error thrown by the method call are explicitly serialized into DBus errors, rather than a generic 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Failed'.
• Change re-distribution license from GPL, to GPL / Perl Artistic, matching the terms of Perl itself.
• Add support for registering a callback on Net::DBus::ASyncReply objects to allow notification of completion for asynchronous method calls

Changes since 0.33.1

• Fixed handling of variants in introspection data
• Added binding for the DBusPendingCall C object
• Added some missing RPM dependancies on XML libs, and on minimum required dbus version
• Added support for doing asynchronous method calls, and fire-andforgot calls for methods whose return status is not desired. Use the constants in Net::DBus::Annotation module to indicate desired call mode. Default is to do synchronous blocking calls.
• Added support for the 16-bit integer, signature and object path data types
• Made introspection of root objects compliant with upsteam spec, by calling introspect on the root object, "/", rather than a Perl specific magic object path.

Changes since 0.32.3

• Constructor for Net::DBus::Object allows another Net::DBus::Object to be passed instead of the Net::DBus::Service, to create child objects specifying only a relative path.
• Updated minimum required DBus version to be 0.33 to gain access to the unregister_object_path API
• Add a disconnect() method to Net::DBus::Object to make it possible to unregister object from the bus & thus make it possible to destroy objects which are no longer required / relevant.
• Unregister all child objects if we are unregistered ourselves
• Fix numerous POD errors identified by Test::Pod and podchecker
• Increase POD documentation to get 100% coverage of all APIs, verified by Test::Pod::Coverage

Changes since 0.32.2

• Introspection data is used only as hint, so if an object exports many methods, but only provides partial introspection data, remote calls fallback to regular typing rules
• Re-add dbus_XXX convenience methods to Net::DBus to allow clients to do explicit type casting. Must be requested at export time, using 'Net::DBus qw(:typing)'.
• Update all example programs to run against session bus, since there are no security rules to enable them to work on system bus.
• Print out warning upon use, if a method, signal, or property is annotated with the 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Deprecated' flag.
• Do not wait for a method reply if the method is annotated with the 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply' flag.
• Extend Net::DBus::Exporter to enable methods, signals, and properties to be annotated.
• Add support for 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Method.NoReply' and 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Deprecated' annotations when exporting objects
• Add a pure in-memory bus implementation for facilitating creation of unit tests which would otherwise require making a connection to a 'live' message bus. Can be accessed via:

Net::DBus->test

• Add an EXPERIMENTAL mock object to faciltate creation of unit tests which need to communicate with other objects on the bus. See Net::DBus::Test::MockObject for further info.

Changes since 0.32.1

• Fix unit tests broken in previous build
• Added patch to avoid leaking memory when throwing dbus errors from the XS layer
• Added support for org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties in exported & remote objects.
• Added support for getting the unique name of the client's connection to the bus
• Added support for getting the unique name of the client owning a service on the bus
• RemoteService object constructor gains an extra parameter for the owner of the service at the time it was aquired to deal with issues where a service is replaced.
• Cache RemoteService objects to avoid creating multiple instances for the same service name.
• Fix caching of objects by the service to avoid caching objects cast to a specific interface
• Make add_signal_receiver method on Net::DBus private
• Use introspection data for hinting only, not absolute truth since Python bindings don't provide complete data.
• Adding correct handling for (de)marshalling variant data type to fix interaction with python bindings
• Added magic 'caller' and 'serial' data types for requesting that data about method caller be passed into a method
• Lots more POD documentation
• Added 'lshal.pl' demo script for listing HAL devices
• Made example scripts interoperate correctly with example scripts from Python & GLib bindings

Changes since 0.32.0

• The order of 'service_name' and 'bus' parameter to the Net::DBus::Service constructor is reversed to match that of Net::DBus::RemoteService
• The order of 'service' and 'object_path' parameter to the Net::DBus::Object constructor is reversed to match that of Net::DBus::RemoteObject
• No longer neccessary to construct an explicit Net::DBus::Service object - one is constructed & returned by the 'export_service' method on Net::DBus
• The 'find' method on Net::DBus will search for & attach to a suitable bus, so no longer neccessary to hard code either system or session bus
• Introspection data is no longer provided via the Net::DBus::Object constructor. Consult the manual pages for Net::DBus::OBject and Net::DBus::Exporter for details of new approach to defining introspection data.
• The Net::DBus::Introspector class is no longer for public use.
• The Net::DBus::Dumper class can be used to display a dump of an object's exported API cf examples/dump-object.pl
• Signal handler callbacks now get the actual signal params passed in, rather than low level bind info
• The Net::DBus objects are automatically registered with the default reactor mainloop, unless 'nomainloop => 1' is passed into constructor