X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=9af73a6396041cc053d3231ec533f476c9f0153e;hb=60fb63c1e7044eeb019ca9387303e83fa2fdf41c;hp=fd37d42e50d200ae09da16a0cb1d1e95e20ef86d;hpb=2c34e9d4eebf3b051ed69ceb7977402af267d7c9;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index fd37d42..9af73a6 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,109 @@ +Avahi 0.6.21 +============ + +This is an important bugfix release. + + * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets + (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung) + * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services + (Contributed by Marcus Clarke) + * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse + domains. + * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications + register identical RRs. + * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names + * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons) + * Fedora init script order fix + * Several fixes to make gcc produces less warnings + * Minor documentation and build fixes + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21. + +Avahi 0.6.20 +============ + +This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security +vulnerability. + + * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by + passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk) + * Solaris/dbm portability fixes + * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally + safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several + distributions. + * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the + command line. + * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20. + +Avahi 0.6.19 +============ + +This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp". + + * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another + free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope + this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too + difficult to handle by the distributors. + * Add man page for bssh/bvnc + * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains + * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as + positive dialog response codes + * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui + * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL + range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1 + * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore + by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better + replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually. + * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd + * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue + * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19. + +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 ============