4 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
6 * Add static hosts name mappings
7 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
8 * ia64 portability fixes
9 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
10 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
12 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
14 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
15 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6
20 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
22 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
23 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
24 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
25 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
26 avahi_entry_group_free().
27 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
28 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
29 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
30 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
33 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
34 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5
39 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
41 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
43 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
45 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
46 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
47 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
48 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
49 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
50 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
51 is detected for gethostbyname().
52 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
53 * speed up avahi_client_free()
55 * install missing header thread-watch.h
56 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
58 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
60 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
66 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
67 avahi-common's public interface.
69 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
70 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
71 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
72 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
74 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
77 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
78 available in our Wiki:
80 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
85 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
87 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
88 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
90 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
95 This is mostly a bugfix release.
97 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
99 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
100 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
101 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
102 * Fix avahi-publish --help
103 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
104 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
105 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
106 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
109 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
111 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
113 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
114 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
119 This is mostly a bugfix release.
121 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
122 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
123 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
124 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
125 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
126 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
127 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
128 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
129 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
132 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
133 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
135 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
136 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
138 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
139 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
140 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
142 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
143 ===============================
145 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
146 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
147 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
148 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
149 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
150 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
151 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
152 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
153 * "Passive observation of failures"
155 * Many traffic reduction improvements
158 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
159 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
165 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
166 * Minor documentation update.
171 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
172 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
173 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
174 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
176 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
177 ================================
179 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
180 any CLI language such as C#
181 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
182 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
183 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
184 * Add API to determine if services are local
185 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
186 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
188 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
190 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
191 =====================================
193 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
194 version number, as they may diverge in future.
195 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
196 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
197 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
198 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
199 * Add support for SUSE
200 * Various fixes to the build system
202 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
203 ====================================
205 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
206 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
207 * Documentation Updates
208 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
210 - Add new help option
211 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
212 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
213 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
215 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
216 ====================================
218 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
219 with the following function removals
221 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
222 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
224 The following functions were simply for debugging information
225 and their removal should not affect anyone
226 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
227 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
228 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
229 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
231 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
232 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
235 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
236 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
237 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
238 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
239 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
240 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
241 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
242 avahi_string_list_find()
243 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
244 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
245 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
246 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
247 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
248 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
249 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
250 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
251 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
252 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
253 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
254 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
255 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
256 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
257 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
258 * Added a new service type description database with human
259 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
260 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
261 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
262 if the process or machine has been suspended
263 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
267 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
268 ==================================
270 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
271 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
273 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
274 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
275 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
276 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
277 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
279 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
280 and boasts the following features
282 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
283 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
284 * An embeddable mDNS stack
285 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
286 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
287 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
288 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
289 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
290 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
291 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
292 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
293 which has no other mechanism for this.
294 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
295 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
296 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
297 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
298 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
300 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
301 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
302 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
303 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
305 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
306 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
307 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
308 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
310 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
311 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
312 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
315 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
316 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
317 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
318 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
320 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
321 to our mailinglist, goto
322 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
324 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
325 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
327 You can also find out more information from our homepage
328 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
330 We would like to thank the following people for their
331 contribution to Avahi 0.1.