6 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
7 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
8 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
9 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
11 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
12 ================================
14 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
15 any CLI language such as C#
16 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
17 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
18 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
19 * Add API to determine if services are local
20 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
21 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
23 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
25 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
26 =====================================
28 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
29 version number, as they may diverge in future.
30 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
31 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
32 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
33 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
34 * Add support for SUSE
35 * Various fixes to the build system
37 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
38 ====================================
40 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
41 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
42 * Documentation Updates
43 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
46 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
47 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
48 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
50 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
51 ====================================
53 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
54 with the following function removals
56 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
57 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
59 The following functions were simply for debugging information
60 and their removal should not affect anyone
61 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
62 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
63 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
64 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
66 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
67 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
70 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
71 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
72 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
73 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
74 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
75 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
76 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
77 avahi_string_list_find()
78 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
79 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
80 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
81 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
82 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
83 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
84 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
85 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
86 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
87 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
88 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
89 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
90 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
91 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
92 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
93 * Added a new service type description database with human
94 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
95 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
96 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
97 if the process or machine has been suspended
98 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
102 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
103 ==================================
105 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
106 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
108 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
109 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
110 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
111 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
112 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
114 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
115 and boasts the following features
117 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
118 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
119 * An embeddable mDNS stack
120 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
121 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
122 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
123 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
124 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
125 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
126 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
127 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
128 which has no other mechanism for this.
129 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
130 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
131 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
132 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
133 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
135 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
136 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
137 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
138 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
140 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
141 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
142 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
143 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
145 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
146 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
147 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
150 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
151 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
152 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
153 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
155 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
156 to our mailinglist, goto
157 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
159 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
160 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
162 You can also find out more information from our homepage
163 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
165 We would like to thank the following people for their
166 contribution to Avahi 0.1.