4 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue and
5 adds a couple of minor new features.
7 * Fix CVE-2010-2244 (Ludwig Nussel)
8 * Support for Gtk+ 3 and Gtk+ Introspection
9 * Native systemd socket activation support
10 * Add systemd service files
11 * Add various resource control options, for traffic rate limiting as well as
12 cache size and D-Bus client object limits.
19 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue.
21 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie)
25 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25.
30 This is mostly a bugfix release.
32 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
34 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
35 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
36 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
37 * A lot of translation updates
39 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
44 This is an bugfix release.
46 * A lot of translation updates
47 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
49 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
50 deal with more clients simultaneously.
51 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
55 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
57 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
58 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
63 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
67 * Documentation and example code updates
68 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
70 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
71 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
72 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
73 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
75 * Service type database updates
76 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
79 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
84 This is an important bugfix release.
86 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
87 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
88 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
89 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
90 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
92 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
93 register identical RRs.
94 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
95 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
96 * Fedora init script order fix
97 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
98 * Minor documentation and build fixes
100 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
105 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
108 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
109 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
110 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
111 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
112 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
114 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
116 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
118 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
123 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
125 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
126 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
127 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
128 difficult to handle by the distributors.
129 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
130 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
131 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
132 positive dialog response codes
133 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
134 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
135 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
136 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
137 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
138 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
139 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
140 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
141 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
143 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
148 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
151 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
152 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
153 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
154 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
155 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
156 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
157 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
158 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
159 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
160 with the new option "-b".
161 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
162 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
163 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
164 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
165 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
166 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
167 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
168 * Various minor fixes
170 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
175 This is a bugfix release.
177 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
178 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
179 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
180 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
181 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
183 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
185 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
190 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
191 from the last release
193 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
194 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
195 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
196 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
197 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
198 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
199 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
200 defined (Closes: #86)
201 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
202 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
203 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
204 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
205 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
206 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
207 * Fix passing in custom privileged group (previously ignored setting)
210 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
215 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
217 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
218 and not another process.
219 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
220 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
222 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
227 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
231 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
232 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
233 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
234 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
235 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
236 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
237 privileges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
238 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
239 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
240 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
241 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
243 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
244 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
245 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
247 * Documentation updates
248 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
249 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
250 * Fix random seed initialization
251 * Install SFTP static service file by default
252 * Other minor code cleanups
254 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
256 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
259 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
260 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
261 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
267 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
270 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
271 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
272 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
273 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
274 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
275 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
276 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
277 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
278 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
279 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
280 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
281 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
282 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
283 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
285 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
286 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
287 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
288 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
290 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
291 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
292 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
293 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
294 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
295 the configuration. Same for GLib.
296 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
297 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
298 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
299 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
300 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
302 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
303 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
305 * Fix build on MacOS X
306 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
307 database. The latter is still recommended
308 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
310 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
315 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
318 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
319 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
320 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
321 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
322 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
323 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
324 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
325 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
327 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
328 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
330 * update service type database
332 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
337 This is a bugfix and portability release.
341 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
342 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
343 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
344 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
346 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
347 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
352 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
353 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
354 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
355 not consider either of them major security threats.
357 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
358 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
359 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
360 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
362 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
363 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
364 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
366 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
369 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
372 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
373 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
374 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
375 chroot() is disabled)
376 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
378 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
379 Discovery Applet for Gnome
380 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
381 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
382 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
383 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
384 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
385 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
386 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
387 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
389 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
390 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
395 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
397 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
398 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
400 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
402 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
403 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
408 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
411 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
412 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
413 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
414 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
415 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
417 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
418 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
423 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
425 * Add static hosts name mappings
426 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
427 * ia64 portability fixes
428 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
429 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
431 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
433 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
434 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
439 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
441 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
442 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
443 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
444 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
445 avahi_entry_group_free().
446 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
447 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
448 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
449 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
452 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
453 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
458 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
460 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
462 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
464 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
465 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
466 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
467 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
468 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
469 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
470 is detected for gethostbyname().
471 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
472 * speed up avahi_client_free()
474 * install missing header thread-watch.h
475 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
476 * fix record updating
477 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
479 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
485 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
486 avahi-common's public interface.
488 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
489 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
490 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
491 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
493 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
496 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
497 available in our Wiki:
499 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
504 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
506 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
507 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
509 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
514 This is mostly a bugfix release.
516 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
518 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
519 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
520 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
521 * Fix avahi-publish --help
522 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
523 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
524 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
525 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
528 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
530 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
532 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
533 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
538 This is mostly a bugfix release.
540 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
541 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
542 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
543 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
544 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
545 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
546 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
547 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
548 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
551 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
552 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
554 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
555 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
557 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
558 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
559 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
561 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
562 ===============================
564 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
565 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
566 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
567 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
568 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
569 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
570 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
571 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
572 * "Passive observation of failures"
574 * Many traffic reduction improvements
577 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
578 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
584 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
585 * Minor documentation update.
590 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
591 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
592 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
593 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
595 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
596 ================================
598 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
599 any CLI language such as C#
600 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
601 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
602 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
603 * Add API to determine if services are local
604 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
605 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
607 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
609 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
610 =====================================
612 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
613 version number, as they may diverge in future.
614 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
615 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
616 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
617 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
618 * Add support for SUSE
619 * Various fixes to the build system
621 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
622 ====================================
624 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
625 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
626 * Documentation Updates
627 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
629 - Add new help option
630 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
631 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
632 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
634 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
635 ====================================
637 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
638 with the following function removals
640 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
641 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
643 The following functions were simply for debugging information
644 and their removal should not affect anyone
645 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
646 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
647 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
648 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
650 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
651 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
654 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
655 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
656 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
657 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
658 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
659 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
660 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
661 avahi_string_list_find()
662 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
663 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
664 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
665 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
666 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
667 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
668 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
669 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
670 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
671 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
672 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
673 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
674 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
675 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
676 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
677 * Added a new service type description database with human
678 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
679 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
680 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
681 if the process or machine has been suspended
682 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
686 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
687 ==================================
689 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
690 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
692 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
693 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
694 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
695 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
696 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
698 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
699 and boasts the following features
701 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
702 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
703 * An embeddable mDNS stack
704 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
705 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
706 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
707 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
708 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
709 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
710 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
711 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
712 which has no other mechanism for this.
713 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
714 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
715 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
716 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
717 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
719 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
720 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
721 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
722 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
724 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
725 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
726 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
727 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
729 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
730 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
731 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
734 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
735 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
736 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
737 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
739 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
740 to our mailinglist, goto
741 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
743 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
744 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
746 You can also find out more information from our homepage
747 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
749 We would like to thank the following people for their
750 contribution to Avahi 0.1.
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