X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=7de210d8e6a3934d38c88fbb81cf1a40c78b6322;hb=7e4e16f9527850d416bc2d2d4d20711aadaf76b6;hp=5e663cbe4a33de01d1117c85ac85ef3a0528f663;hpb=67729025381505d99cf649561a1ea2277e88a596;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index 5e663cb..7de210d 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,44 @@ $Id$ +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 +===================================== + + * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the + version number, as they may diverge in future. + * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface + with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which + caused avahi-daemon to abort. + * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database. + * Add support for SUSE + * Various fixes to the build system + +Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release +==================================== + + * New integration library for QT main-loop applications. + * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd + * Documentation Updates + * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK + * avahi-bookmarks + - Add new help option + - Fix handling of paths not starting with a / + - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to + - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs + Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release ==================================== @@ -26,7 +65,7 @@ Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn) * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core. * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications - * Addition new convenience AvahiStringList functions + * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList avahi_string_list_find() avahi_string_list_get_pair() avahi_string_list_add_pair() @@ -44,10 +83,87 @@ Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release or use it in an application already using D-BUS * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records * Added a new service type description database with human - understandable descriptions of services and translations. + understandable descriptions of services with translations. * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict if the process or machine has been suspended * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions * ... * PROFIT!!! + +Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release +================================== + +The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of +Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag". + +Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. +It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts +running on a local network with no specific configuration. For +example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to +print to, files to look at and people to talk to. + +Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification +and boasts the following features + + * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL + * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support + * An embeddable mDNS stack + * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration + * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications + * C library to interface with the DBUS API + * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as + Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous) + * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments + * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published + information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6 + which has no other mechanism for this. + * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as + 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server. + http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ + * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications. + * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities. + +mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy +configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf" +(http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into +a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services. + +Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is +available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD +specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many +platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions. + +While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and +available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi +client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their +programs. + +We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone +could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think +you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by +emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st. + +If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe +to our mailinglist, goto + http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi + +You can download Avahi 0.1 here + http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz + +You can also find out more information from our homepage + http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi + +We would like to thank the following people for their +contribution to Avahi 0.1. + Lennart Poeterring + Trent Lloyd + Sebastien Estienne + Ross Burton + Tommi Vainikainen + Joe Shaw + Ikke + Steev + +Cheers, +The Avahi Team