npm / dbus-native

dbus-native

What changed in dbus-native 0.13 to 0.16, from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories. Sources checked 2026-11-10.

10 breaking10 new APIs and options1 performance3 behavior and defaults8 fixes and other

See which of these apply to your code, ranked, in your agent:

npx @unstale/cli init

dbus-native 0.165 changes

Introspection XML loads with the first proxy rather than when the package loads.
0.16.0release notes

A failed Hello now closes the connection instead of crashing the process.
0.16.3release notes
Calling unref() on a Bun transport connection lets the process exit.
0.16.2release notes
Polling retries EINTR without limit, so a d-bus connection survives a GC-heavy script.
0.16.1release notes

unixexec: addresses now read argv1, argv2, ... instead of arg1, arg2, ...; old spellings pass no arguments, while spec-conformant addresses now work.
0.15.0release notes

defineInterface refuses positional in/out rather than indexing them.
0.15.2release notes
A message that cannot be written now settles its call once, preventing repeated settlement.
0.15.1release notes
A bus keeps the options it was given and cannot be crashed by a path.
0.15.0release notes
Exported signals follow the export and stop when it ends.
0.15.0release notes

Use this command in place of the removed dbus2js binary.
0.14.0release notes
The binary is removed; use dbus-native types instead.
0.14.0release notes
The file is removed because it required a package that was never a dependency and threw on require.
0.14.0release notes
The package is no longer a dependency; Long values are still accepted on input.
0.14.0release notes
Node.js 22.12.0 or newer is required, up from 20.8.0.
0.14.0release notes
Defaults to true, so variants read as their value and string-keyed dicts as plain objects.
0.14.0release notes
Defaults to true, so x and t values read as bigint; pass false for a lossy number.
0.14.0release notes
ReturnLongjs now throws instead of being ignored; pass returnBigInt: false for a lossy number.
0.14.0release notes
Calls now reject with a TimeoutError after 25 seconds by default; set timeout to 0 to restore the old behavior or raise it for longer methods.
0.14.0release notes

Provides a live view of a service's object tree.
0.13.0release notes
Exposes the remote object as an object.
0.13.0release notes
Declares a service without positional arrays.
0.13.0release notes
The library can serve org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager.
0.13.0release notes
Adds bounded proxy signals.
0.13.0release notes
Adds bounded proxy watching.
0.13.0release notes
Opt-in reconnect restores names and match rules.
0.13.0release notes
UNIX_FD can be carried over a transport supplied by the caller.
0.13.0release notes
The 'wrap' variant lets a variant carry its type without the tree.
0.13.0release notes

The library no longer answers a method call addressed to someone else.
0.13.0release notes