3 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
4 =====================================
6 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
7 version number, as they may diverge in future.
8 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
9 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
10 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
11 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
12 * Add support for SUSE
13 * Various fixes to the build system
15 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
16 ====================================
18 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
19 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
20 * Documentation Updates
21 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
24 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
25 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
26 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
28 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
29 ====================================
31 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
32 with the following function removals
34 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
35 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
37 The following functions were simply for debugging information
38 and their removal should not affect anyone
39 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
40 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
41 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
42 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
44 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
45 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
48 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
49 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
50 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
51 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
52 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
53 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
54 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
55 avahi_string_list_find()
56 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
57 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
58 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
59 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
60 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
61 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
62 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
63 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
64 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
65 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
66 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
67 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
68 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
69 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
70 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
71 * Added a new service type description database with human
72 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
73 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
74 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
75 if the process or machine has been suspended
76 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
80 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
81 ==================================
83 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
84 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
86 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
87 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
88 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
89 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
90 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
92 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
93 and boasts the following features
95 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
96 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
97 * An embeddable mDNS stack
98 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
99 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
100 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
101 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
102 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
103 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
104 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
105 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
106 which has no other mechanism for this.
107 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
108 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
109 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
110 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
111 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
113 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
114 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
115 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
116 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
118 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
119 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
120 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
121 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
123 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
124 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
125 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
128 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
129 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
130 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
131 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
133 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
134 to our mailinglist, goto
135 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
137 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
138 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
140 You can also find out more information from our homepage
141 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
143 We would like to thank the following people for their
144 contribution to Avahi 0.1.