4 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
6 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
8 * fix build on bi-arch platforms and on GNU/kFreeBSD
9 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
10 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
11 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
12 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
13 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
14 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
15 is detected for gethostbyname().
16 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
17 * speed up avahi_client_free()
19 * install missing header thread-watch.h
20 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
22 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
28 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
29 avahi-common's public interface.
31 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
32 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
33 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
34 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
36 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
39 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
40 available in our Wiki:
42 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
47 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
49 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
50 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
52 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
57 This is mostly a bugfix release.
59 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
61 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
62 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
63 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
64 * Fix avahi-publish --help
65 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
66 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
67 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
68 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
71 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
73 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
75 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
76 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
81 This is mostly a bugfix release.
83 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
84 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
85 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
86 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
87 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
88 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
89 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
90 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
91 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
94 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
95 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
97 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
98 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
100 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
101 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
102 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
104 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
105 ===============================
107 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
108 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
109 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
110 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
111 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
112 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
113 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
114 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
115 * "Passive observation of failures"
117 * Many traffic reduction improvements
120 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
121 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
127 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
128 * Minor documentation update.
133 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
134 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
135 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
136 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
138 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
139 ================================
141 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
142 any CLI language such as C#
143 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
144 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
145 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
146 * Add API to determine if services are local
147 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
148 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
150 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
152 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
153 =====================================
155 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
156 version number, as they may diverge in future.
157 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
158 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
159 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
160 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
161 * Add support for SUSE
162 * Various fixes to the build system
164 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
165 ====================================
167 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
168 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
169 * Documentation Updates
170 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
172 - Add new help option
173 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
174 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
175 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
177 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
178 ====================================
180 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
181 with the following function removals
183 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
184 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
186 The following functions were simply for debugging information
187 and their removal should not affect anyone
188 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
189 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
190 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
191 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
193 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
194 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
197 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
198 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
199 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
200 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
201 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
202 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
203 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
204 avahi_string_list_find()
205 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
206 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
207 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
208 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
209 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
210 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
211 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
212 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
213 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
214 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
215 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
216 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
217 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
218 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
219 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
220 * Added a new service type description database with human
221 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
222 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
223 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
224 if the process or machine has been suspended
225 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
229 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
230 ==================================
232 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
233 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
235 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
236 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
237 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
238 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
239 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
241 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
242 and boasts the following features
244 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
245 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
246 * An embeddable mDNS stack
247 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
248 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
249 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
250 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
251 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
252 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
253 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
254 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
255 which has no other mechanism for this.
256 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
257 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
258 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
259 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
260 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
262 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
263 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
264 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
265 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
267 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
268 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
269 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
270 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
272 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
273 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
274 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
277 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
278 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
279 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
280 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
282 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
283 to our mailinglist, goto
284 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
286 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
287 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
289 You can also find out more information from our homepage
290 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
292 We would like to thank the following people for their
293 contribution to Avahi 0.1.