X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2FNEWS;h=ed48d0ee76507d1c6a64053e7345d16a92e53d82;hb=7ec1d734c64bc69fb467c88c99b130b8fc5eb9d7;hp=d5dcc0bd92fc921658e37720ff935f83db73c69e;hpb=6962262563d09a68fd2cb6a88b66f5e97e9992a5;p=catta diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index d5dcc0b..ed48d0e 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,234 @@ +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 produce 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 +============ + +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 +============ + +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. + * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h + * 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 + digits. + * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received. + * 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 + +This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13. + Avahi 0.6.12 ============ @@ -6,9 +237,11 @@ 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 important fixes in the GLIB adapter which are - required when used with newer D-Bus releases. (0.62 and up) + * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command line option * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris @@ -406,7 +639,7 @@ and boasts the following features 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. +a network and instantly be able to interact with its services. Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD