4 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
7 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
8 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
9 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
10 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
11 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
12 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
13 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
14 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
16 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
17 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
19 * update service type database
21 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
26 This is a bugfix and portability release.
30 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
31 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
32 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
33 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
35 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
36 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
41 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
42 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
43 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
44 not consider either of them major security threats.
46 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
47 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
48 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
49 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
51 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
52 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
53 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
55 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
58 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
61 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
62 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
63 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
65 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
67 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
68 Discovery Applet for Gnome
69 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
70 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
71 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
72 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
73 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
74 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
75 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
76 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
78 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
79 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
84 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
86 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
87 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
89 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
91 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
92 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
97 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
100 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
101 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
102 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
103 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
104 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
106 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
107 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
112 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
114 * Add static hosts name mappings
115 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
116 * ia64 portability fixes
117 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
118 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
120 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
122 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
123 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
128 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
130 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
131 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
132 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
133 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
134 avahi_entry_group_free().
135 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
136 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
137 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
138 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
141 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
142 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
147 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
149 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
151 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
153 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
154 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
155 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
156 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
157 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
158 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
159 is detected for gethostbyname().
160 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
161 * speed up avahi_client_free()
163 * install missing header thread-watch.h
164 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
165 * fix record updating
166 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
168 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
174 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
175 avahi-common's public interface.
177 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
178 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
179 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
180 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
182 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
185 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
186 available in our Wiki:
188 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
193 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
195 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
196 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
198 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
203 This is mostly a bugfix release.
205 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
207 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
208 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
209 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
210 * Fix avahi-publish --help
211 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
212 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
213 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
214 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
217 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
219 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
221 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
222 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
227 This is mostly a bugfix release.
229 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
230 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
231 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
232 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
233 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
234 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
235 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
236 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
237 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
240 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
241 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
243 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
244 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
246 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
247 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
248 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
250 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
251 ===============================
253 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
254 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
255 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
256 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
257 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
258 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
259 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
260 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
261 * "Passive observation of failures"
263 * Many traffic reduction improvements
266 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
267 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
273 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
274 * Minor documentation update.
279 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
280 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
281 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
282 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
284 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
285 ================================
287 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
288 any CLI language such as C#
289 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
290 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
291 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
292 * Add API to determine if services are local
293 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
294 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
296 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
298 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
299 =====================================
301 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
302 version number, as they may diverge in future.
303 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
304 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
305 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
306 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
307 * Add support for SUSE
308 * Various fixes to the build system
310 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
311 ====================================
313 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
314 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
315 * Documentation Updates
316 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
318 - Add new help option
319 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
320 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
321 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
323 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
324 ====================================
326 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
327 with the following function removals
329 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
330 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
332 The following functions were simply for debugging information
333 and their removal should not affect anyone
334 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
335 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
336 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
337 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
339 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
340 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
343 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
344 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
345 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
346 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
347 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
348 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
349 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
350 avahi_string_list_find()
351 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
352 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
353 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
354 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
355 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
356 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
357 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
358 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
359 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
360 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
361 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
362 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
363 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
364 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
365 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
366 * Added a new service type description database with human
367 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
368 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
369 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
370 if the process or machine has been suspended
371 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
375 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
376 ==================================
378 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
379 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
381 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
382 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
383 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
384 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
385 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
387 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
388 and boasts the following features
390 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
391 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
392 * An embeddable mDNS stack
393 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
394 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
395 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
396 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
397 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
398 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
399 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
400 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
401 which has no other mechanism for this.
402 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
403 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
404 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
405 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
406 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
408 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
409 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
410 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
411 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
413 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
414 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
415 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
416 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
418 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
419 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
420 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
423 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
424 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
425 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
426 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
428 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
429 to our mailinglist, goto
430 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
432 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
433 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
435 You can also find out more information from our homepage
436 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
438 We would like to thank the following people for their
439 contribution to Avahi 0.1.