X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=ce6ab198d86509864102dd4ca39a055ca854949d;hb=852c1dd6fabd985b063c18c3d0aac7f44182d9bb;hp=0928bf33362b6d85f31f290e319874c200b7f65b;hpb=288c64c8700c3a6eef82df545ce2ddd4b0362248;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index 0928bf3..ce6ab19 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,331 @@ -$Id$ +Avahi 0.6.13 +============ + +This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. + +Changes: + * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during + runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the + UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is + enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably + be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit + access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing + --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more + sophisticated access control you can freely edit + /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf. + * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line + wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method. + * Bonjour API compatibility library: + * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord() + * Allow passing NULL as callback function for + DNSServiceRegister() + * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a + way that is compatible with Bonjour. + * If the host name changes update names of static services wich + contain wildcards. + * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into + other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded + developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable + building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12. + * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in + the configuration. Same for GLib. + * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In + Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be + 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. + * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is recieved. + * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python + support + * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type + database. The latter is still recommended + * Minor other fixes and documentation updates + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13. + +Avahi 0.6.12 +============ + +This is a bugfix and general cleanups release. + +Changes: + * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x) + * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks + * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which + caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events + too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer. + * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code. + * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups + * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command + line option + * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris + * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful + in shell scripts. + * update service type database + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12. + +Avahi 0.6.11 +============ + +This is a bugfix and portability release. + +Changes: + * Ported to Solaris + * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code + * add a few new entries to the servivce type database + * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down + * compatibility with newer autoconf versions + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10. + +Avahi 0.6.10 +============ + +This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security +sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer +overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do +not consider either of them major security threats. + +The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It +is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with +nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by +provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs. + +The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can +become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a +chroot() environment (at least on Linux). + +Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our +code. Hence: + + *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! *** + +Changes: + * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core + * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data + * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if + chroot() is disabled) + * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is + terminated + * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service + Discovery Applet for Gnome + * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive + GnomeMeeting's broken usage + * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames + * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes + * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd + * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService() + * Ported to Solaris (incomplete) + * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9. + +Avahi 0.6.9 +=========== + +This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. + + * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names + * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and + AvahiAddressResolver + * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8. + +Avahi 0.6.8 +=========== + +This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7, +please update ASAP! + + * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file + * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support + * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links. + This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details. + * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7. + +Avahi 0.6.7 +=========== + +This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features + + * Add static hosts name mappings + * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership + * ia64 portability fixes + * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks + * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an + empty entry group. + * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6. + +Avahi 0.6.6 +=========== + +This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates + + * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database + * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly + * Many doxygen documentation improvements + * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using + avahi_entry_group_free(). + * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups + * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt + * Don't accept empty TXT strings + * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an + existing service + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5. + +Avahi 0.6.5 +=========== + +This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function. + + * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the + network + * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and + for non-DBUS builds + * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function + IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether + libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names. + * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of + IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links + with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support + is detected for gethostbyname(). + * add init script for Mandriva Linux + * speed up avahi_client_free() + * man page updates + * install missing header thread-watch.h + * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions + * fix record updating + * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, +0.6.3 and 0.6.4. + +Avahi 0.6.4 +=========== + +This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to +avahi-common's public interface. + + * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation + * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions + * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified + * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and +0.6.3. + +A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is +available in our Wiki: + + http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread + +Avahi 0.6.3 +=========== + +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 ================================ @@ -7,7 +334,7 @@ Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release 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 +494,5 @@ contribution to Avahi 0.1. Cheers, The Avahi Team + +$Id$