D-Bus

Desktop Bus
Developer(s)	Red Hat
Initial release	November 2006
Stable release	1.14.10 / September 1, 2023
Preview release	1.15.8 / August 21, 2023
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus.git ;
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Predecessor	CORBA; DCOP
Type	IPC daemon; Linux on the desktop;
License	GPLv2+ or AFL 2.1
Website	www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus") is a message-oriented middleware mechanism that allows communication between multiple processes running concurrently on the same machine. D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project, initiated by GNOME developer Havoc Pennington to standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

The freedesktop.org project also developed a free and open-source software library called libdbus, as a reference implementation of the specification. This library should not be confused with D-Bus itself, as other implementations of the D-Bus specification also exist, such as GDBus (GNOME), QtDBus (Qt/KDE), dbus-java and sd-bus (part of systemd).

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