3 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
4 ====================================
6 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
7 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
8 * Documentation Updates
9 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
12 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
13 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
14 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
16 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
17 ====================================
19 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
20 with the following function removals
22 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
23 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
25 The following functions were simply for debugging information
26 and their removal should not affect anyone
27 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
28 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
29 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
30 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
32 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
33 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
36 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
37 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
38 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
39 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
40 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
41 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
42 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
43 avahi_string_list_find()
44 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
45 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
46 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
47 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
48 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
49 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
50 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
51 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
52 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
53 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
54 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
55 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
56 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
57 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
58 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
59 * Added a new service type description database with human
60 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
61 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
62 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
63 if the process or machine has been suspended
64 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
68 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
69 ==================================
71 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
72 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
74 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
75 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
76 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
77 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
78 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
80 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
81 and boasts the following features
83 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
84 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
85 * An embeddable mDNS stack
86 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
87 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
88 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
89 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
90 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
91 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
92 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
93 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
94 which has no other mechanism for this.
95 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
96 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
97 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
98 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
99 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
101 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
102 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
103 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
104 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
106 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
107 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
108 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
109 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
111 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
112 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
113 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
116 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
117 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
118 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
119 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
121 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
122 to our mailinglist, goto
123 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
125 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
126 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
128 You can also find out more information from our homepage
129 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
131 We would like to thank the following people for their
132 contribution to Avahi 0.1.