4 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
6 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
8 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
10 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
11 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
12 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
13 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
14 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
15 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
16 is detected for gethostbyname().
17 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
18 * speed up avahi_client_free()
20 * install missing header thread-watch.h
21 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
23 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
25 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
31 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
32 avahi-common's public interface.
34 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
35 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
36 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
37 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
39 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
42 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
43 available in our Wiki:
45 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
50 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
52 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
53 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
55 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
60 This is mostly a bugfix release.
62 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
64 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
65 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
66 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
67 * Fix avahi-publish --help
68 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
69 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
70 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
71 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
74 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
76 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
78 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
79 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
84 This is mostly a bugfix release.
86 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
87 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
88 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
89 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
90 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
91 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
92 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
93 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
94 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
97 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
98 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
100 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
101 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
103 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
104 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
105 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
107 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
108 ===============================
110 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
111 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
112 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
113 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
114 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
115 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
116 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
117 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
118 * "Passive observation of failures"
120 * Many traffic reduction improvements
123 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
124 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
130 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
131 * Minor documentation update.
136 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
137 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
138 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
139 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
141 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
142 ================================
144 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
145 any CLI language such as C#
146 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
147 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
148 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
149 * Add API to determine if services are local
150 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
151 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
153 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
155 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
156 =====================================
158 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
159 version number, as they may diverge in future.
160 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
161 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
162 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
163 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
164 * Add support for SUSE
165 * Various fixes to the build system
167 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
168 ====================================
170 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
171 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
172 * Documentation Updates
173 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
175 - Add new help option
176 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
177 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
178 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
180 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
181 ====================================
183 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
184 with the following function removals
186 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
187 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
189 The following functions were simply for debugging information
190 and their removal should not affect anyone
191 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
192 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
193 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
194 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
196 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
197 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
200 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
201 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
202 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
203 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
204 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
205 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
206 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
207 avahi_string_list_find()
208 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
209 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
210 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
211 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
212 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
213 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
214 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
215 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
216 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
217 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
218 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
219 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
220 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
221 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
222 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
223 * Added a new service type description database with human
224 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
225 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
226 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
227 if the process or machine has been suspended
228 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
232 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
233 ==================================
235 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
236 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
238 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
239 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
240 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
241 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
242 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
244 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
245 and boasts the following features
247 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
248 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
249 * An embeddable mDNS stack
250 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
251 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
252 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
253 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
254 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
255 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
256 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
257 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
258 which has no other mechanism for this.
259 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
260 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
261 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
262 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
263 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
265 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
266 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
267 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
268 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
270 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
271 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
272 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
273 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
275 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
276 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
277 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
280 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
281 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
282 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
283 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
285 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
286 to our mailinglist, goto
287 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
289 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
290 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
292 You can also find out more information from our homepage
293 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
295 We would like to thank the following people for their
296 contribution to Avahi 0.1.