4 This is mostly a bugfix release.
6 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
7 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
8 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
9 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
10 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
11 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
12 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
13 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
14 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
17 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
18 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
20 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
21 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
23 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
24 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
25 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
27 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
28 ===============================
30 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
31 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
32 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
33 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
34 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
35 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
36 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
37 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
38 * "Passive observation of failures"
40 * Many traffic reduction improvements
43 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
44 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
50 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
51 * Minor documentation update.
56 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
57 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
58 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
59 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
61 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
62 ================================
64 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
65 any CLI language such as C#
66 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
67 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
68 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
69 * Add API to determine if services are local
70 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
71 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
73 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
75 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
76 =====================================
78 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
79 version number, as they may diverge in future.
80 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
81 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
82 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
83 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
84 * Add support for SUSE
85 * Various fixes to the build system
87 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
88 ====================================
90 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
91 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
92 * Documentation Updates
93 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
96 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
97 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
98 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
100 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
101 ====================================
103 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
104 with the following function removals
106 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
107 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
109 The following functions were simply for debugging information
110 and their removal should not affect anyone
111 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
112 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
113 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
114 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
116 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
117 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
120 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
121 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
122 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
123 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
124 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
125 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
126 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
127 avahi_string_list_find()
128 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
129 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
130 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
131 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
132 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
133 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
134 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
135 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
136 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
137 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
138 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
139 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
140 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
141 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
142 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
143 * Added a new service type description database with human
144 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
145 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
146 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
147 if the process or machine has been suspended
148 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
152 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
153 ==================================
155 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
156 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
158 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
159 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
160 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
161 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
162 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
164 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
165 and boasts the following features
167 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
168 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
169 * An embeddable mDNS stack
170 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
171 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
172 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
173 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
174 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
175 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
176 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
177 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
178 which has no other mechanism for this.
179 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
180 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
181 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
182 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
183 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
185 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
186 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
187 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
188 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
190 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
191 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
192 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
193 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
195 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
196 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
197 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
200 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
201 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
202 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
203 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
205 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
206 to our mailinglist, goto
207 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
209 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
210 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
212 You can also find out more information from our homepage
213 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
215 We would like to thank the following people for their
216 contribution to Avahi 0.1.