4 This is a bugfix release.
6 * Various updates to the systemd integration
7 * Reset all signal handlers and the signal mask on initialization
8 * Don't trip over SIGPIPE
12 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 27.
17 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue and
18 adds a couple of minor new features.
20 * Fix CVE-2010-2244 (Ludwig Nussel)
21 * Support for Gtk+ 3 and Gtk+ Introspection
22 * Native systemd socket activation support
23 * Add systemd service files
24 * Add various resource control options, for traffic rate limiting as well as
25 cache size and D-Bus client object limits.
29 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 26.
34 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue.
36 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie)
40 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25.
45 This is mostly a bugfix release.
47 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
49 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
50 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
51 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
52 * A lot of translation updates
54 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
59 This is an bugfix release.
61 * A lot of translation updates
62 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
64 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
65 deal with more clients simultaneously.
66 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
70 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
72 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
73 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
78 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
82 * Documentation and example code updates
83 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
85 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
86 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
87 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
88 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
90 * Service type database updates
91 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
94 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
99 This is an important bugfix release.
101 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
102 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
103 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
104 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
105 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
107 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
108 register identical RRs.
109 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
110 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
111 * Fedora init script order fix
112 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
113 * Minor documentation and build fixes
115 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
120 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
123 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
124 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
125 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
126 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
127 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
129 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
131 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
133 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
138 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
140 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
141 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
142 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
143 difficult to handle by the distributors.
144 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
145 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
146 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
147 positive dialog response codes
148 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
149 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
150 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
151 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
152 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
153 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
154 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
155 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
156 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
158 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
163 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
166 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
167 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
168 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
169 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
170 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
171 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
172 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
173 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
174 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
175 with the new option "-b".
176 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
177 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
178 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
179 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
180 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
181 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
182 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
183 * Various minor fixes
185 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
190 This is a bugfix release.
192 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
193 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
194 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
195 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
196 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
198 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
200 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
205 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
206 from the last release
208 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
209 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
210 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
211 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
212 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
213 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
214 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
215 defined (Closes: #86)
216 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
217 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
218 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
219 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
220 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
221 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
222 * Fix passing in custom privileged group (previously ignored setting)
225 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
230 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
232 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
233 and not another process.
234 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
235 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
237 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
242 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
246 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
247 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
248 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
249 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
250 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
251 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
252 privileges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
253 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
254 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
255 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
256 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
258 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
259 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
260 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
262 * Documentation updates
263 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
264 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
265 * Fix random seed initialization
266 * Install SFTP static service file by default
267 * Other minor code cleanups
269 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
271 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
274 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
275 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
276 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
282 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
285 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
286 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
287 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
288 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
289 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
290 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
291 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
292 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
293 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
294 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
295 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
296 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
297 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
298 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
300 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
301 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
302 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
303 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
305 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
306 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
307 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
308 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
309 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
310 the configuration. Same for GLib.
311 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
312 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
313 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
314 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
315 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
317 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
318 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
320 * Fix build on MacOS X
321 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
322 database. The latter is still recommended
323 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
325 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
330 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
333 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
334 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
335 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
336 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
337 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
338 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
339 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
340 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
342 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
343 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
345 * update service type database
347 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
352 This is a bugfix and portability release.
356 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
357 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
358 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
359 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
361 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
362 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
367 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
368 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
369 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
370 not consider either of them major security threats.
372 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
373 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
374 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
375 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
377 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
378 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
379 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
381 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
384 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
387 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
388 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
389 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
390 chroot() is disabled)
391 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
393 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
394 Discovery Applet for Gnome
395 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
396 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
397 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
398 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
399 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
400 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
401 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
402 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
404 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
405 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
410 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
412 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
413 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
415 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
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 and 0.6.8.
423 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
426 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
427 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
428 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
429 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
430 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
432 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
433 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
438 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
440 * Add static hosts name mappings
441 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
442 * ia64 portability fixes
443 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
444 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
446 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
448 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
449 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
454 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
456 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
457 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
458 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
459 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
460 avahi_entry_group_free().
461 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
462 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
463 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
464 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
467 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
468 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
473 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
475 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
477 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
479 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
480 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
481 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
482 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
483 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
484 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
485 is detected for gethostbyname().
486 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
487 * speed up avahi_client_free()
489 * install missing header thread-watch.h
490 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
491 * fix record updating
492 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
494 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
500 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
501 avahi-common's public interface.
503 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
504 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
505 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
506 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
508 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
511 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
512 available in our Wiki:
514 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
519 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
521 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
522 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
524 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
529 This is mostly a bugfix release.
531 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
533 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
534 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
535 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
536 * Fix avahi-publish --help
537 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
538 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
539 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
540 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
543 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
545 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
547 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
548 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
553 This is mostly a bugfix release.
555 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
556 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
557 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
558 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
559 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
560 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
561 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
562 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
563 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
566 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
567 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
569 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
570 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
572 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
573 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
574 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
576 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
577 ===============================
579 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
580 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
581 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
582 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
583 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
584 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
585 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
586 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
587 * "Passive observation of failures"
589 * Many traffic reduction improvements
592 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
593 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
599 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
600 * Minor documentation update.
605 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
606 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
607 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
608 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
610 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
611 ================================
613 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
614 any CLI language such as C#
615 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
616 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
617 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
618 * Add API to determine if services are local
619 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
620 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
622 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
624 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
625 =====================================
627 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
628 version number, as they may diverge in future.
629 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
630 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
631 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
632 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
633 * Add support for SUSE
634 * Various fixes to the build system
636 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
637 ====================================
639 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
640 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
641 * Documentation Updates
642 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
644 - Add new help option
645 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
646 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
647 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
649 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
650 ====================================
652 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
653 with the following function removals
655 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
656 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
658 The following functions were simply for debugging information
659 and their removal should not affect anyone
660 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
661 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
662 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
663 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
665 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
666 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
669 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
670 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
671 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
672 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
673 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
674 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
675 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
676 avahi_string_list_find()
677 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
678 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
679 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
680 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
681 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
682 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
683 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
684 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
685 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
686 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
687 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
688 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
689 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
690 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
691 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
692 * Added a new service type description database with human
693 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
694 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
695 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
696 if the process or machine has been suspended
697 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
701 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
702 ==================================
704 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
705 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
707 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
708 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
709 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
710 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
711 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
713 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
714 and boasts the following features
716 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
717 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
718 * An embeddable mDNS stack
719 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
720 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
721 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
722 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
723 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
724 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
725 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
726 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
727 which has no other mechanism for this.
728 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
729 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
730 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
731 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
732 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
734 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
735 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
736 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
737 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
739 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
740 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
741 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
742 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
744 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
745 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
746 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
749 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
750 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
751 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
752 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
754 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
755 to our mailinglist, goto
756 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
758 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
759 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
761 You can also find out more information from our homepage
762 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
764 We would like to thank the following people for their
765 contribution to Avahi 0.1.