Prepare version 1.4.4

AUTHORS

+Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
 Anders Carlsson <andersca@codefactory.se>
+Andre Heinecke <aheinecke@intevation.de>
 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
 Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
 Benjamin Reed <ranger@befunk.com>
@@ -7,12 +9,14 @@ Benjamin Reed <rangerrick@befunk.com>
 Benjamin Reed <ranger@Sin.local>
 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com>
 Christian Dywan <christian.dywan@lanedo.com>
+Christian Dywan <christian@lanedo.com>
 Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher@gmx.de>
 Christian Persch (GNOME) <chpe@gnome.org>
 Colin Walters <walters@lightbox.localdomain>
 Colin Walters <walters@space-ghost.verbum.private>
 Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
 Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
+Cristian Rodríguez <cristian.rodriguez@opensuse.org>
 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
 Daniel P. Berrange <dan@berrange.com>
 Daniel Reed <djr@redhat.com>
@@ -44,6 +48,7 @@ Johannes Carlsson <johannes.carlsson.x@sonyericsson.com>
 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>
 Jon Gosting <yukarionsen@gmail.com>
 Jon Trowbridge <trow@ximian.com>
+Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen@nokia.com>
 Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@gnome.org>
 Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
 Michael Meeks <michael@ximian.com>
 Mikael Hallendal <micke@codefactory.se>
 Mikael Hallendal <micke@imendio.com>
+Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>
 Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>
 Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
@@ -72,6 +78,7 @@ Olivier Andrieu <oliv__a@users.sourceforge.net>
 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
 Owen Fraser-Green <owen@discobabe.net>
 Patrick von Reth <patrick.vonreth@gmail.com>
+Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>
 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
 Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
 Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp@gmx.net>
@@ -82,6 +89,7 @@ Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>
 Ralf Habacker <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>
 Ralf Habacker <ralf@s15291359.onlinehome-server.info>
 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
+Richard A. Hankins <richard.a.hankins@gmail.com>
 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
 Richard Hult <rhult@codefactory.se>
 Richard Hult <richard@imendio.com>
@@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ Sebastian Sauer <sebsauer@kdab.net>
 Seth Nickell <seth@gnome.org>
 Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
 Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net>
+Sledz <sledz@MOBIL-400-586.intern.dresearch.de>
 Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>
 Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org>
 Tobias Mueller <fdo-bugs@cryptobitch.de>
@@ -108,5 +117,7 @@ unknown <Habacker@.(none)>
 Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
 William Lachance <wrlach@gmail.com>
 Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
+Wulf C. Krueger <philantrop@exherbo.org>
 Xan Lopez <xan@gnome.org>
+Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
 Zack Rusin <zack@kde.org>

HACKING

@@ -152,17 +152,13 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following:
  - verify that the libtool versioning/library soname is 
    changed if it needs to be, or not changed if not
 
- - update the file NEWS based on the ChangeLog
+ - update the file NEWS based on the git history
 
- - update the AUTHORS file based on the ChangeLog
+ - update the AUTHORS file with "make update-authors" if necessary
 
- - add a ChangeLog entry containing the version number 
-   you're releasing ("Released 0.3" or something)
-   so people can see which changes were before and after
-   a given release
-
- - the version number should have major.minor.micro even
-   if micro is 0, i.e. "1.0.0" and "1.2.0" not "1.0"/"1.2"
+ - the version number should have major.minor.micro, even
+   if micro is 0, i.e. "1.0.0" and "1.2.0" not "1.0"/"1.2"; the micro
+   version should be even for releases, and odd for intermediate snapshots
 
  - "make distcheck" (DO NOT just "make dist" - pass the check!)
 
@@ -176,8 +172,8 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following:
    then simply created an unsigned annotated tag:
    "git tag -a -m 'Released X.Y.Z' dbus-X.Y.Z".
 
- - bump the version number up in configure.in, and commit
-   it.  Make sure you do this *after* tagging the previous
+ - bump the version number up in configure.in (so the micro version is odd),
+   and commit it.  Make sure you do this *after* tagging the previous
    release! The idea is that git has a newer version number
    than anything released.
 
@@ -210,29 +206,21 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following:
 After making a ".0" stable release
 ===
 
-After releasing, when you increment the version number in git, also
-move the ChangeLog to ChangeLog.pre-X-Y where X-Y is what you just
-released, e.g. ChangeLog.pre-1-0. Then create and cvs add a new empty
-ChangeLog. The last entry in ChangeLog.pre-1-0 should be the one about
-"Released 1.0". 
-
-Add ChangeLog.pre-X-Y to EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am.
-
 We create a branch for each stable release; sometimes the branch is
 not done immediately, instead it's possible to wait until someone has
 a not-suitable-for-stable change they want to make and then branch to
 allow committing that change.
 
-The branch name should be dbus-X.Y-branch which is a branch that has
+The branch name should be dbus-X.Y which is a branch that has
 releases versioned X.Y.Z
 
 To branch:
-  git branch dbus-X.Y-branch
+  git branch dbus-X.Y
 and upload the branch tag to the server:
-  git-push origin dbus-X.Y-branch
+  git push origin dbus-X.Y
 
 To develop in this branch:
-  git-checkout dbus-X.Y-branch
+  git checkout dbus-X.Y
 
 Environment variables
 ===

NEWS

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ D-Bus 1.4.4 (UNRELEASED)
   • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
     fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
   • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
-  • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, NB#180486)
+  • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
   • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
   • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
   • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
@@ -21,11 +21,14 @@ D-Bus 1.4.4 (UNRELEASED)
     fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
   • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
     Debian #230231)
-  • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285)
+  • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
+    fd.o #34292)
   • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
     (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
   • Fix syslog string processing
   • Ignore -Waddress
+  • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
+    with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
   • Windows:
     · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
   • OpenBSD:

configure.in

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 
 m4_define([dbus_major_version], [1])
 m4_define([dbus_minor_version], [4])
-m4_define([dbus_micro_version], [3])
+m4_define([dbus_micro_version], [4])
 m4_define([dbus_version],
           [dbus_major_version.dbus_minor_version.dbus_micro_version])
 AC_INIT(dbus, [dbus_version])
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ LT_CURRENT=8
 
 ## increment any time the source changes; set to
 ##  0 if you increment CURRENT
-LT_REVISION=3
+LT_REVISION=4
 
 ## increment if any interfaces have been added; set to 0
 ## if any interfaces have been changed or removed. removal has