X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=1cd04a5a0b40507309ce416054ebf2c00f488a5c;hb=b6fa96edc8d834c5b538953a7c0a80f532784172;hp=d438e9b70f0ca74ac895cee58ec458565ef1d2cb;hpb=2c0c46d2fbe168c78621baf0ba4184017f81a5c6;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index d438e9b..1cd04a5 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,76 @@ -$Id$ +Avahi 0.6.1 +=========== + +This is mostly a bugfix release. + + * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this + issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side + effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly. + * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD + * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion() + * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of + "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure + full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box. + * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library + * Other fixes + +We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging +does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions. + +This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is +true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface. + +Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS +which contains some information about maintaining full build system +compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility. + +Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release +=============================== + + * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS) + * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD + * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs + * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs + * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records + * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes + * Native C implementations of the client utilities + * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions + * "Passive observation of failures" + * chroot() support + * Many traffic reduction improvements + * Bugfixes, cleanups + +This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see +docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes. + +Avahi 0.5.2 +=========== + + * Bug fix release. + * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken) + * Minor documentation update. + +Avahi 0.5.1 +=========== + + * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6 + * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error + * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups + * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group + +Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release +================================ + + * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from + any CLI language such as C# + * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address + * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us + to reliably determine if a service is the same as another. + * Add API to determine if services are local + * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll + * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in + other languages + * Various build and run-time bug fixes Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release ===================================== @@ -153,3 +225,5 @@ contribution to Avahi 0.1. Cheers, The Avahi Team + +$Id$