4 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
6 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
7 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
8 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
9 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
10 avahi_entry_group_free().
11 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
12 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
13 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
14 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
17 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
18 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5
23 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
25 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
27 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
29 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
30 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
31 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
32 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
33 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
34 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
35 is detected for gethostbyname().
36 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
37 * speed up avahi_client_free()
39 * install missing header thread-watch.h
40 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
42 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
44 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
50 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
51 avahi-common's public interface.
53 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
54 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
55 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
56 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
58 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
61 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
62 available in our Wiki:
64 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
69 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
71 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
72 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
74 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
79 This is mostly a bugfix release.
81 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
83 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
84 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
85 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
86 * Fix avahi-publish --help
87 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
88 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
89 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
90 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
93 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
95 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
97 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
98 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
103 This is mostly a bugfix release.
105 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
106 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
107 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
108 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
109 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
110 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
111 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
112 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
113 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
116 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
117 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
119 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
120 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
122 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
123 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
124 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
126 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
127 ===============================
129 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
130 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
131 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
132 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
133 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
134 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
135 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
136 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
137 * "Passive observation of failures"
139 * Many traffic reduction improvements
142 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
143 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
149 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
150 * Minor documentation update.
155 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
156 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
157 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
158 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
160 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
161 ================================
163 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
164 any CLI language such as C#
165 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
166 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
167 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
168 * Add API to determine if services are local
169 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
170 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
172 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
174 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
175 =====================================
177 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
178 version number, as they may diverge in future.
179 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
180 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
181 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
182 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
183 * Add support for SUSE
184 * Various fixes to the build system
186 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
187 ====================================
189 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
190 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
191 * Documentation Updates
192 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
194 - Add new help option
195 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
196 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
197 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
199 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
200 ====================================
202 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
203 with the following function removals
205 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
206 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
208 The following functions were simply for debugging information
209 and their removal should not affect anyone
210 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
211 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
212 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
213 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
215 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
216 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
219 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
220 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
221 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
222 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
223 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
224 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
225 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
226 avahi_string_list_find()
227 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
228 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
229 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
230 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
231 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
232 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
233 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
234 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
235 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
236 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
237 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
238 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
239 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
240 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
241 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
242 * Added a new service type description database with human
243 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
244 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
245 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
246 if the process or machine has been suspended
247 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
251 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
252 ==================================
254 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
255 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
257 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
258 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
259 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
260 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
261 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
263 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
264 and boasts the following features
266 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
267 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
268 * An embeddable mDNS stack
269 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
270 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
271 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
272 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
273 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
274 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
275 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
276 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
277 which has no other mechanism for this.
278 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
279 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
280 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
281 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
282 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
284 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
285 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
286 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
287 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
289 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
290 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
291 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
292 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
294 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
295 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
296 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
299 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
300 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
301 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
302 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
304 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
305 to our mailinglist, goto
306 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
308 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
309 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
311 You can also find out more information from our homepage
312 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
314 We would like to thank the following people for their
315 contribution to Avahi 0.1.