4 This is mostly a bugfix release.
6 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
8 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
9 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
10 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
11 * Fix avahi-publish --help
12 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
13 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
14 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
15 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
18 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and
21 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
23 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
24 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
29 This is mostly a bugfix release.
31 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
32 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
33 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
34 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
35 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
36 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
37 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
38 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
39 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
42 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
43 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
45 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
46 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
48 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
49 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
50 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
52 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
53 ===============================
55 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
56 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
57 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
58 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
59 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
60 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
61 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
62 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
63 * "Passive observation of failures"
65 * Many traffic reduction improvements
68 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
69 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
75 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
76 * Minor documentation update.
81 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
82 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
83 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
84 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
86 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
87 ================================
89 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
90 any CLI language such as C#
91 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
92 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
93 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
94 * Add API to determine if services are local
95 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
96 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
98 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
100 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
101 =====================================
103 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
104 version number, as they may diverge in future.
105 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
106 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
107 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
108 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
109 * Add support for SUSE
110 * Various fixes to the build system
112 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
113 ====================================
115 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
116 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
117 * Documentation Updates
118 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
120 - Add new help option
121 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
122 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
123 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
125 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
126 ====================================
128 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
129 with the following function removals
131 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
132 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
134 The following functions were simply for debugging information
135 and their removal should not affect anyone
136 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
137 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
138 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
139 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
141 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
142 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
145 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
146 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
147 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
148 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
149 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
150 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
151 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
152 avahi_string_list_find()
153 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
154 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
155 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
156 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
157 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
158 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
159 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
160 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
161 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
162 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
163 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
164 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
165 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
166 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
167 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
168 * Added a new service type description database with human
169 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
170 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
171 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
172 if the process or machine has been suspended
173 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
177 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
178 ==================================
180 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
181 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
183 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
184 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
185 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
186 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
187 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
189 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
190 and boasts the following features
192 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
193 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
194 * An embeddable mDNS stack
195 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
196 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
197 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
198 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
199 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
200 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
201 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
202 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
203 which has no other mechanism for this.
204 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
205 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
206 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
207 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
208 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
210 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
211 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
212 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
213 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
215 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
216 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
217 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
218 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
220 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
221 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
222 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
225 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
226 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
227 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
228 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
230 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
231 to our mailinglist, goto
232 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
234 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
235 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
237 You can also find out more information from our homepage
238 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
240 We would like to thank the following people for their
241 contribution to Avahi 0.1.