diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 50a295a743..6944d3129c 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -2202,6 +2202,7 @@ F:	package/tpm-tools/
 F:	package/trousers/
 
 N:	Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
+F:	package/dbus-broker/
 F:	package/systemd/
 F:	package/tcf-agent/
 
@@ -3015,6 +3016,7 @@ F:	package/asterisk/
 F:	package/cegui/
 F:	package/dahdi-linux/
 F:	package/dahdi-tools/
+F:	package/dbus-broker/
 F:	package/dtc/
 F:	package/dtv-scan-tables/
 F:	package/dvb-apps/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 174cfde73e..8ecf2295d3 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ endmenu
 	source "package/dahdi-tools/Config.in"
 	source "package/davinci-bootcount/Config.in"
 	source "package/dbus/Config.in"
+	source "package/dbus-broker/Config.in"
 	source "package/dbus-cpp/Config.in"
 	source "package/dbus-cxx/Config.in"
 	source "package/dbus-glib/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/Config.in b/package/dbus-broker/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c7206232da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_BROKER
+	bool "dbus-broker"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_17
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_EXPAT
+	help
+	  Linux D-Bus Message Broker.
+
+	  The dbus-broker project is an implementation of a message bus
+	  as defined by the D-Bus specification. Its aim is to provide
+	  high performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility
+	  to the D-Bus reference implementation.
+
+	  It is exclusively written for Linux systems, and makes use of
+	  many modern features provided by recent linux kernel releases.
+
+	  https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki
+
+comment "dbusbroker needs systemd and a toolchain w/ threads"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.hash b/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26ebab7ac1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  4eca425db52b7ab1027153e93fea9b3f11759db9e93ffbf88759b73ddfb8026a  dbus-broker-29.tar.xz
+sha256  3cda3630283eda0eab825abe5ac84d191248c6b3fe1c232a118124959b96c6a4  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.mk b/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..22c5e8d8b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/dbus-broker.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# dbus-broker
+#
+################################################################################
+
+DBUS_BROKER_VERSION = 29
+DBUS_BROKER_SOURCE = dbus-broker-$(DBUS_BROKER_VERSION).tar.xz
+DBUS_BROKER_SITE = https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/releases/download/v$(DBUS_BROKER_VERSION)
+
+DBUS_BROKER_LICENSE = \
+	Apache-2.0, \
+	Apache-2.0 and/or LGPL-2.1+ (c-dvar, c-ini, c-list, c-rbtree, c-shquote, c-stdaux, c-utf8)
+# For the third-party code, the licensing legal-info is inconsistent between
+# the AUTHORS and README, so keep both
+DBUS_BROKER_LICENSE_FILES = \
+	LICENSE \
+	subprojects/c-dvar/AUTHORS subprojects/c-dvar/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-ini/AUTHORS subprojects/c-ini/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-list/AUTHORS subprojects/c-list/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-rbtree/AUTHORS subprojects/c-rbtree/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-shquote/AUTHORS subprojects/c-shquote/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-stdaux/AUTHORS subprojects/c-stdaux/README.md \
+	subprojects/c-utf8/AUTHORS subprojects/c-utf8/README.md
+
+DBUS_BROKER_DEPENDENCIES = expat systemd
+DBUS_BROKER_CONF_OPTS = -Dlauncher=true
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_AUDIT),y)
+DBUS_BROKER_DEPENDENCIES += audit
+DBUS_BROKER_CONF_OPTS += -Daudit=true
+else
+DBUS_BROKER_CONF_OPTS += -Daudit=false
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSELINUX),y)
+DBUS_BROKER_DEPENDENCIES += libselinux
+DBUS_BROKER_CONF_OPTS += -Dselinux=true
+else
+DBUS_BROKER_CONF_OPTS += -Dselinux=false
+endif
+
+# We must be using the same user as the original dbus, so we can share
+# the home directory and create a socket there. As a consequence, the
+# username and groupname must be dbus:dbus, and they both need to have
+# the same home.
+define DBUS_BROKER_USERS
+	dbus -1 dbus -1 * /run/dbus - dbus DBus messagebus user
+endef
+
+# We overwrite some files from dbus, so add a dependency.
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS),y)
+DBUS_BROKER_DEPENDENCIES += dbus
+endif
+
+define DBUS_BROKER_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(DBUS_BROKER_PKGDIR)/session.conf \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(DBUS_BROKER_PKGDIR)/system.conf \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0644 $(DBUS_BROKER_PKGDIR)/dbus.socket \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket
+	$(HOST_MAKE_ENV) ln -sf ../dbus.socket \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dbus.socket
+endef
+
+$(eval $(meson-package))
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/dbus.socket b/package/dbus-broker/dbus.socket
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c373cf450
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/dbus.socket
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
+
+[Socket]
+ListenStream=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/session.conf b/package/dbus-broker/session.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4758fa218
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/session.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<!-- This configuration file controls the per-user-login-session message bus.
+     Add a session-local.conf and edit that rather than changing this
+     file directly. -->
+
+<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-Bus Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
+<busconfig>
+  <!-- Our well-known bus type, don't change this -->
+  <type>session</type>
+
+  <!-- If we fork, keep the user's original umask to avoid affecting
+       the behavior of child processes. -->
+  <keep_umask/>
+
+  <standard_session_servicedirs />
+
+  <policy context="default">
+    <!-- Allow everything to be sent -->
+    <allow send_destination="*" eavesdrop="true"/>
+    <!-- Allow everything to be received -->
+    <allow eavesdrop="true"/>
+    <!-- Allow anyone to own anything -->
+    <allow own="*"/>
+  </policy>
+
+  <!-- Config files are placed here that among other things,
+       further restrict the above policy for specific services. -->
+  <includedir>session.d</includedir>
+
+  <includedir>/etc/dbus-1/session.d</includedir>
+
+  <!-- This is included last so local configuration can override what's
+       in this standard file -->
+  <include ignore_missing="yes">/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf</include>
+
+  <include if_selinux_enabled="yes" selinux_root_relative="yes">contexts/dbus_contexts</include>
+
+  <!-- For the session bus, override the default relatively-low limits
+       with essentially infinite limits, since the bus is just running
+       as the user anyway, using up bus resources is not something we need
+       to worry about. In some cases, we do set the limits lower than
+       "all available memory" if exceeding the limit is almost certainly a bug,
+       having the bus enforce a limit is nicer than a huge memory leak. But the
+       intent is that these limits should never be hit. -->
+
+  <!-- the memory limits are 1G instead of say 4G because they can't exceed 32-bit signed int max -->
+  <limit name="max_incoming_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_incoming_unix_fds">250000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_outgoing_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_outgoing_unix_fds">250000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_message_size">1000000000</limit>
+  <!-- We do not override max_message_unix_fds here since the in-kernel
+       limit is also relatively low -->
+  <limit name="service_start_timeout">120000</limit>
+  <limit name="auth_timeout">240000</limit>
+  <limit name="pending_fd_timeout">150000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_completed_connections">100000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_incomplete_connections">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_connections_per_user">100000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_pending_service_starts">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_names_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">50000</limit>
+
+</busconfig>
diff --git a/package/dbus-broker/system.conf b/package/dbus-broker/system.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b17fbd90e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/dbus-broker/system.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+<!-- This configuration file controls the systemwide message bus.
+     Add a system-local.conf and edit that rather than changing this
+     file directly. -->
+
+<!-- Note that there are any number of ways you can hose yourself
+     security-wise by screwing up this file; in particular, you
+     probably don't want to listen on any more addresses, add any more
+     auth mechanisms, run as a different user, etc. -->
+
+<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-Bus Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
+<busconfig>
+
+  <!-- Our well-known bus type, do not change this -->
+  <type>system</type>
+
+  <!-- Fork into daemon mode -->
+  <fork/>
+
+  <!-- Run as special user -->
+  <user>dbus</user>
+
+  <!-- We use system service launching using a helper -->
+  <standard_system_servicedirs/>
+
+  <!-- Enable logging to syslog -->
+  <syslog/>
+
+  <policy context="default">
+    <!-- All users can connect to system bus -->
+    <allow user="*"/>
+
+    <!-- Holes must be punched in service configuration files for
+         name ownership and sending method calls -->
+    <deny own="*"/>
+    <deny send_type="method_call"/>
+
+    <!-- Signals and reply messages (method returns, errors) are allowed
+         by default -->
+    <allow send_type="signal"/>
+    <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="method_return"/>
+    <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="error"/>
+
+    <!-- All messages may be received by default -->
+    <allow receive_type="method_call"/>
+    <allow receive_type="method_return"/>
+    <allow receive_type="error"/>
+    <allow receive_type="signal"/>
+
+    <!-- Allow anyone to talk to the message bus -->
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus" />
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"/>
+    <!-- But disallow some specific bus services -->
+    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+          send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+          send_member="UpdateActivationEnvironment"/>
+    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+          send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Debug.Stats"/>
+    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+          send_interface="org.freedesktop.systemd1.Activator"/>
+  </policy>
+
+  <!-- Only systemd, which runs as root, may report activation failures. -->
+  <policy user="root">
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.systemd1.Activator"/>
+  </policy>
+
+  <!-- root may monitor the system bus. -->
+  <policy user="root">
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Monitoring"/>
+  </policy>
+
+  <!-- If the Stats interface was enabled at compile-time, root may use it.
+       Copy this into system.local.conf or system.d/*.conf if you want to
+       enable other privileged users to view statistics and debug info -->
+  <policy user="root">
+    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
+           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Debug.Stats"/>
+  </policy>
+
+
+  <!-- The defaults for these limits are hard-coded in dbus-daemon.
+       Some clarifications:
+       Times are in milliseconds (ms); 1000ms = 1 second
+       133169152 bytes = 127 MiB
+       33554432 bytes = 32 MiB
+       150000ms = 2.5 minutes -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_incoming_bytes">133169152</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_incoming_unix_fds">64</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_outgoing_bytes">133169152</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_outgoing_unix_fds">64</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_message_size">33554432</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_message_unix_fds">16</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="service_start_timeout">25000</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="auth_timeout">5000</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="pending_fd_timeout">150000</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_completed_connections">2048</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_incomplete_connections">64</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_connections_per_user">256</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_pending_service_starts">512</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_names_per_connection">512</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">512</limit> -->
+  <!-- <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">128</limit> -->
+
+  <!-- Config files are placed here that among other things, punch
+       holes in the above policy for specific services. -->
+  <includedir>system.d</includedir>
+
+  <includedir>/etc/dbus-1/system.d</includedir>
+
+  <!-- This is included last so local configuration can override what's
+       in this standard file -->
+  <include ignore_missing="yes">/etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf</include>
+
+  <include if_selinux_enabled="yes" selinux_root_relative="yes">contexts/dbus_contexts</include>
+
+</busconfig>
diff --git a/package/dbus/dbus.mk b/package/dbus/dbus.mk
index de447d8680..a3a21c1bcc 100644
--- a/package/dbus/dbus.mk
+++ b/package/dbus/dbus.mk
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
+# When updating dbus, check if there are changes in session.conf and
+# system.conf, and update the versions in the dbus-broker package accordingly.
 DBUS_VERSION = 1.12.22
 DBUS_SITE = https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus
 DBUS_LICENSE = AFL-2.1 or GPL-2.0+ (library, tools), GPL-2.0+ (tools)
@@ -97,6 +99,20 @@ define DBUS_INSTALL_INIT_SYSV
 	ln -sf /tmp/dbus $(TARGET_DIR)/var/lib/dbus
 endef
 
+# If dbus-broker is installed, don't install the activation links for
+# dbus itself, not the configuration files. They will be overwritten
+# by dbus-broker
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_BROKER),y)
+define DBUS_REMOVE_SYSTEMD_ACTIVATION_LINKS
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dbus.service
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dbus.socket
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf
+endef
+DBUS_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += DBUS_REMOVE_SYSTEMD_ACTIVATION_LINKS
+endif
+
 define DBUS_INSTALL_INIT_SYSTEMD
 	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/var/lib/dbus
 	ln -sf /etc/machine-id $(TARGET_DIR)/var/lib/dbus/machine-id