4 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
6 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
7 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
9 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
14 This is mostly a bugfix release.
16 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
18 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
19 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
20 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
21 * Fix avahi-publish --help
22 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
23 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
24 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
25 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
28 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
30 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
32 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
33 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
38 This is mostly a bugfix release.
40 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
41 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
42 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
43 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
44 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
45 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
46 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
47 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
48 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
51 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
52 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
54 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
55 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
57 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
58 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
59 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
61 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
62 ===============================
64 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
65 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
66 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
67 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
68 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
69 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
70 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
71 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
72 * "Passive observation of failures"
74 * Many traffic reduction improvements
77 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
78 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
84 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
85 * Minor documentation update.
90 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
91 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
92 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
93 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
95 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
96 ================================
98 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
99 any CLI language such as C#
100 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
101 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
102 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
103 * Add API to determine if services are local
104 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
105 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
107 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
109 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
110 =====================================
112 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
113 version number, as they may diverge in future.
114 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
115 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
116 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
117 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
118 * Add support for SUSE
119 * Various fixes to the build system
121 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
122 ====================================
124 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
125 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
126 * Documentation Updates
127 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
129 - Add new help option
130 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
131 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
132 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
134 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
135 ====================================
137 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
138 with the following function removals
140 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
141 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
143 The following functions were simply for debugging information
144 and their removal should not affect anyone
145 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
146 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
147 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
148 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
150 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
151 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
154 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
155 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
156 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
157 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
158 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
159 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
160 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
161 avahi_string_list_find()
162 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
163 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
164 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
165 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
166 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
167 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
168 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
169 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
170 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
171 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
172 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
173 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
174 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
175 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
176 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
177 * Added a new service type description database with human
178 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
179 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
180 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
181 if the process or machine has been suspended
182 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
186 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
187 ==================================
189 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
190 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
192 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
193 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
194 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
195 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
196 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
198 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
199 and boasts the following features
201 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
202 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
203 * An embeddable mDNS stack
204 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
205 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
206 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
207 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
208 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
209 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
210 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
211 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
212 which has no other mechanism for this.
213 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
214 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
215 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
216 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
217 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
219 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
220 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
221 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
222 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
224 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
225 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
226 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
227 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
229 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
230 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
231 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
234 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
235 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
236 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
237 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
239 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
240 to our mailinglist, goto
241 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
243 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
244 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
246 You can also find out more information from our homepage
247 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
249 We would like to thank the following people for their
250 contribution to Avahi 0.1.