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