X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=c866ac86156641a00ef5bd582a5ae826542e5bb9;hb=029be78f80b011465e1bb736b87ccdb2df0bab57;hp=61a04bde2e4beb98173413f5439af9da82252744;hpb=88beec5e4fad4bfd9fbe51e7cf2320d53669f80d;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index 61a04bd..c866ac8 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,105 @@ -$Id$ +Avahi 0.6.3 +=========== -Avahi 0.5, the 'omghai2uasl' release -==================================== +This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP! + + * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings + * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout + +This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2. + +Avahi 0.6.2 +=========== + +This is mostly a bugfix release. + + * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and + 0.5 is retained) + * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects + * Miscellaneous documentation updates + * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library + * Fix avahi-publish --help + * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a + user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS + * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create + * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new() + * Other minor fixes + +This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1. + +Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website! + +And, most importantly, we now have a Logo: + http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png + +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 our own. + 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 @@ -167,3 +259,5 @@ contribution to Avahi 0.1. Cheers, The Avahi Team + +$Id$