7 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
8 * Minor documentation update.
13 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
14 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
15 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
16 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
18 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
19 ================================
21 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
22 any CLI language such as C#
23 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
24 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
25 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
26 * Add API to determine if services are local
27 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
28 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
30 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
32 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
33 =====================================
35 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
36 version number, as they may diverge in future.
37 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
38 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
39 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
40 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
41 * Add support for SUSE
42 * Various fixes to the build system
44 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
45 ====================================
47 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
48 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
49 * Documentation Updates
50 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
53 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
54 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
55 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
57 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
58 ====================================
60 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
61 with the following function removals
63 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
64 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
66 The following functions were simply for debugging information
67 and their removal should not affect anyone
68 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
69 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
70 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
71 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
73 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
74 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
77 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
78 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
79 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
80 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
81 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
82 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
83 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
84 avahi_string_list_find()
85 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
86 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
87 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
88 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
89 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
90 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
91 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
92 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
93 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
94 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
95 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
96 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
97 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
98 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
99 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
100 * Added a new service type description database with human
101 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
102 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
103 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
104 if the process or machine has been suspended
105 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
109 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
110 ==================================
112 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
113 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
115 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
116 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
117 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
118 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
119 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
121 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
122 and boasts the following features
124 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
125 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
126 * An embeddable mDNS stack
127 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
128 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
129 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
130 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
131 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
132 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
133 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
134 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
135 which has no other mechanism for this.
136 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
137 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
138 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
139 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
140 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
142 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
143 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
144 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
145 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
147 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
148 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
149 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
150 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
152 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
153 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
154 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
157 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
158 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
159 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
160 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
162 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
163 to our mailinglist, goto
164 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
166 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
167 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
169 You can also find out more information from our homepage
170 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
172 We would like to thank the following people for their
173 contribution to Avahi 0.1.