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Message bus system, providing inter-application communication. Version 1.16.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29.
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Package summary
Message bus system, providing inter-application communication
Project links
Commands and aliases
- dbus-cleanup-sockets
- dbus-daemon
- dbus-launch
- dbus-monitor
- dbus-run-session
- dbus-send
- dbus-test-tool
- dbus-update-activation-environment
- dbus-uuidgen
history
Project history and usage
D-Bus is the freedesktop.org message bus system and reference implementation for low-overhead local IPC, providing both a protocol and the dbus-daemon used by Unix desktop and system services.
Project history
The D-Bus specification credits authors from Red Hat, CodeFactory, Imendio, Collabora, and others, and its first released document was revision 0.8 in September 2003. The protocol was declared frozen for compatible extension in November 2006, making later changes conservative and versioned.
Adoption history
freedesktop.org describes dbus as the reference implementation and says released versions are available in all major Linux distributions. The project page also notes that D-Bus was heavily tested in real-world use over several years before being treated as set in stone.
How it is used
D-Bus supplies a system bus for events such as hardware or printer changes and a per-login-session bus for desktop IPC. The package also ships tools such as dbus-daemon, dbus-send, dbus-monitor, dbus-run-session, and dbus-uuidgen for debugging and service integration.
Why package nerds care
As a package, dbus sits near the base of the modern Linux desktop graph: many GUI, service, policy, and session components do not expose D-Bus directly to users, but they rely on its daemon, activation files, bus names, and language bindings.
Timeline
- 2003: D-Bus specification revision 0.8 is the first released document.
- 2006: D-Bus protocol is frozen for compatible extensions.
- 2024: Specification revision 0.43 documents more modern interfaces and service-loading guidance.
- 2026: freedesktop.org lists dbus 1.16.x as the stable branch and 1.14.x as a legacy branch supported for security fixes until mid-2026.
Related projects
- Related projects include libdbus, dbus-daemon, dbus-glib, GDBus, QtDBus, sd-bus, and language bindings for Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, and other ecosystems.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: orange
formula declares a Homebrew service.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- formula declares a Homebrew service
Signals
- metadata:service
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf/etc/dbus-1/system.d/etc/dbus-1/session.d
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
dbus-cleanup-sockets | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-daemon | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-launch | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-monitor | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-run-session | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-send | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-test-tool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-update-activation-environment | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dbus-uuidgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.16.2
manager updated2026-07-29
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:dbus |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.16.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/dbus |
| Last updated | 2026-07-29T17:23:24+01:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation