X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=55bff0657e25b1d3aecd1bd14921ff8150e30743;hb=b2a161037f30c49e6128e7a42dd08f92d08d3b08;hp=9f8d15b35e0a353d85cd86589608047d5e3d55cf;hpb=830178084ad66af4314af888eb661ec1a3920fcc;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index 9f8d15b..55bff06 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,122 @@ +Avahi 0.6.18 +============ + +This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new +component. + + * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog + for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of + it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or + xvncviewer if one item is selected. + * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson) + * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility + * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and + /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw") + * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse + with the new option "-b". + * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp) + * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera) + * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws) + * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is + make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh" + * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR + * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons) + * Various minor fixes + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18. + +Avahi 0.6.17 +============ + +This is a bugfix release. + + * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name + * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script + * Improve libdns_sd compatibility + * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix + * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa + * IA64 fixes + * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17. + +Avahi 0.6.16 +============ + +This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression +from the last release + + * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in + many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72) + * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which + seems to work better (Closes: #72) + * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real + libdns_sd does (Closes: #64) + * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer + defined (Closes: #86) + * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77) + * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71) + * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68) + * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84) + * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example + * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h + * Fix passing in custom priviledged group (previously ignored setting) + (Closes: #85) + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16. + +Avahi 0.6.15 +============ + +This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive + + * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel + and not another process. + * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt) + * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN. + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15. + +Avahi 0.6.14 +============ + +This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component. + +Changes: + + * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of + IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP + addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on + Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of + this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful + and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops + priviliges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging + this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read: + http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd + and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for + adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list + thread: + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html + * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations + * Add a few new entries to the service type database + * s/D-?BUS/D-Bus/g + * Documentation updates + * Fix service type database building on Solaris + * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs + * Fix random seed initialization + * Install SFTP static service file by default + * Other minor code cleanups + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14. + +Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches +welcome. + +Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for +now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to +"configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will +fail. + Avahi 0.6.13 ============ @@ -35,10 +154,11 @@ Changes: changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in - numbers. + digits. * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is recieved. * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python support + * Fix build on MacOS X * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type database. The latter is still recommended * Minor other fixes and documentation updates