4 This is a bugfix release.
6 * Updates regarding systemd integration
7 * Properly avoid bus activation on non-systemd systems
8 * Compatibility with newer gtk3 and gobject introspection
12 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 28.
17 This is a bugfix release.
19 * Various updates to the systemd integration
20 * Reset all signal handlers and the signal mask on initialization
21 * Don't trip over SIGPIPE
25 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 27.
30 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue and
31 adds a couple of minor new features.
33 * Fix CVE-2010-2244 (Ludwig Nussel)
34 * Support for Gtk+ 3 and Gtk+ Introspection
35 * Native systemd socket activation support
36 * Add systemd service files
37 * Add various resource control options, for traffic rate limiting as well as
38 cache size and D-Bus client object limits.
42 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 26.
47 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue.
49 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie)
53 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25.
58 This is mostly a bugfix release.
60 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
62 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
63 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
64 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
65 * A lot of translation updates
67 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
72 This is an bugfix release.
74 * A lot of translation updates
75 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
77 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
78 deal with more clients simultaneously.
79 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
83 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
85 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
86 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
91 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
95 * Documentation and example code updates
96 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
98 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
99 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
100 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
101 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
103 * Service type database updates
104 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
105 * Minor other updates
107 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
112 This is an important bugfix release.
114 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
115 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
116 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
117 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
118 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
120 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
121 register identical RRs.
122 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
123 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
124 * Fedora init script order fix
125 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
126 * Minor documentation and build fixes
128 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
133 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
136 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
137 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
138 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
139 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
140 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
142 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
144 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
146 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
151 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
153 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
154 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
155 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
156 difficult to handle by the distributors.
157 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
158 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
159 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
160 positive dialog response codes
161 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
162 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
163 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
164 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
165 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
166 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
167 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
168 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
169 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
171 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
176 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
179 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
180 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
181 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
182 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
183 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
184 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
185 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
186 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
187 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
188 with the new option "-b".
189 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
190 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
191 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
192 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
193 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
194 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
195 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
196 * Various minor fixes
198 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
203 This is a bugfix release.
205 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
206 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
207 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
208 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
209 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
211 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
213 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
218 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
219 from the last release
221 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
222 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
223 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
224 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
225 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
226 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
227 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
228 defined (Closes: #86)
229 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
230 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
231 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
232 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
233 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
234 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
235 * Fix passing in custom privileged group (previously ignored setting)
238 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
243 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
245 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
246 and not another process.
247 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
248 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
250 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
255 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
259 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
260 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
261 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
262 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
263 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
264 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
265 privileges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
266 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
267 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
268 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
269 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
271 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
272 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
273 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
275 * Documentation updates
276 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
277 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
278 * Fix random seed initialization
279 * Install SFTP static service file by default
280 * Other minor code cleanups
282 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
284 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
287 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
288 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
289 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
295 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
298 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
299 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
300 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
301 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
302 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
303 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
304 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
305 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
306 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
307 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
308 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
309 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
310 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
311 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
313 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
314 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
315 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
316 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
318 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
319 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
320 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
321 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
322 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
323 the configuration. Same for GLib.
324 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
325 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
326 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
327 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
328 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
330 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
331 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
333 * Fix build on MacOS X
334 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
335 database. The latter is still recommended
336 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
338 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
343 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
346 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
347 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
348 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
349 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
350 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
351 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
352 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
353 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
355 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
356 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
358 * update service type database
360 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
365 This is a bugfix and portability release.
369 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
370 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
371 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
372 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
374 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
375 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
380 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
381 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
382 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
383 not consider either of them major security threats.
385 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
386 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
387 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
388 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
390 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
391 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
392 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
394 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
397 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
400 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
401 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
402 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
403 chroot() is disabled)
404 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
406 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
407 Discovery Applet for Gnome
408 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
409 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
410 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
411 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
412 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
413 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
414 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
415 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
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, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
423 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
425 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
426 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
428 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
430 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
431 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
436 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
439 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
440 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
441 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
442 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
443 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
445 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
446 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
451 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
453 * Add static hosts name mappings
454 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
455 * ia64 portability fixes
456 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
457 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
459 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
461 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
462 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
467 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
469 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
470 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
471 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
472 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
473 avahi_entry_group_free().
474 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
475 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
476 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
477 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
480 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
481 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
486 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
488 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
490 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
492 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
493 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
494 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
495 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
496 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
497 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
498 is detected for gethostbyname().
499 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
500 * speed up avahi_client_free()
502 * install missing header thread-watch.h
503 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
504 * fix record updating
505 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
507 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
513 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
514 avahi-common's public interface.
516 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
517 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
518 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
519 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
521 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
524 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
525 available in our Wiki:
527 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
532 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
534 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
535 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
537 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
542 This is mostly a bugfix release.
544 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
546 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
547 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
548 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
549 * Fix avahi-publish --help
550 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
551 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
552 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
553 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
556 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
558 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
560 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
561 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
566 This is mostly a bugfix release.
568 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
569 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
570 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
571 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
572 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
573 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
574 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
575 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
576 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
579 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
580 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
582 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
583 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
585 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
586 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
587 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
589 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
590 ===============================
592 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
593 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
594 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
595 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
596 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
597 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
598 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
599 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
600 * "Passive observation of failures"
602 * Many traffic reduction improvements
605 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
606 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
612 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
613 * Minor documentation update.
618 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
619 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
620 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
621 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
623 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
624 ================================
626 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
627 any CLI language such as C#
628 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
629 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
630 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
631 * Add API to determine if services are local
632 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
633 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
635 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
637 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
638 =====================================
640 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
641 version number, as they may diverge in future.
642 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
643 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
644 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
645 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
646 * Add support for SUSE
647 * Various fixes to the build system
649 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
650 ====================================
652 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
653 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
654 * Documentation Updates
655 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
657 - Add new help option
658 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
659 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
660 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
662 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
663 ====================================
665 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
666 with the following function removals
668 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
669 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
671 The following functions were simply for debugging information
672 and their removal should not affect anyone
673 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
674 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
675 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
676 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
678 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
679 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
682 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
683 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
684 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
685 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
686 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
687 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
688 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
689 avahi_string_list_find()
690 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
691 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
692 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
693 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
694 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
695 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
696 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
697 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
698 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
699 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
700 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
701 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
702 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
703 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
704 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
705 * Added a new service type description database with human
706 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
707 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
708 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
709 if the process or machine has been suspended
710 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
714 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
715 ==================================
717 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
718 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
720 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
721 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
722 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
723 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
724 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
726 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
727 and boasts the following features
729 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
730 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
731 * An embeddable mDNS stack
732 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
733 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
734 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
735 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
736 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
737 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
738 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
739 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
740 which has no other mechanism for this.
741 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
742 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
743 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
744 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
745 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
747 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
748 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
749 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
750 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
752 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
753 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
754 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
755 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
757 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
758 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
759 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
762 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
763 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
764 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
765 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
767 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
768 to our mailinglist, goto
769 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
771 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
772 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
774 You can also find out more information from our homepage
775 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
777 We would like to thank the following people for their
778 contribution to Avahi 0.1.