4 This is a bugfix release.
6 * Fix compatibility with newest autoconf
8 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 31.
13 This is a bugfix release.
15 * Make IPv6 work again
19 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 30.
24 This is a bugfix release.
26 * Updates regarding systemd integration
27 * Compatibility with newer gtk3 and gobject introspection
30 * Fix CVE-2011-1002, fixing the fix for CVE-2010-2244
32 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 29.
37 This is a bugfix release.
39 * Updates regarding systemd integration
40 * Properly avoid bus activation on non-systemd systems
41 * Compatibility with newer gtk3 and gobject introspection
45 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 28.
50 This is a bugfix release.
52 * Various updates to the systemd integration
53 * Reset all signal handlers and the signal mask on initialization
54 * Don't trip over SIGPIPE
58 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 27.
63 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue and
64 adds a couple of minor new features.
66 * Fix CVE-2010-2244 (Ludwig Nussel)
67 * Support for Gtk+ 3 and Gtk+ Introspection
68 * Native systemd socket activation support
69 * Add systemd service files
70 * Add various resource control options, for traffic rate limiting as well as
71 cache size and D-Bus client object limits.
75 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 26.
80 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue.
82 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie)
86 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25.
91 This is mostly a bugfix release.
93 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
95 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
96 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
97 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
98 * A lot of translation updates
100 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
105 This is an bugfix release.
107 * A lot of translation updates
108 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
109 (patch from lkundrak)
110 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
111 deal with more clients simultaneously.
112 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
114 * Minor other updates
116 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
118 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
119 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
124 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
128 * Documentation and example code updates
129 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
131 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
132 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
133 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
134 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
136 * Service type database updates
137 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
138 * Minor other updates
140 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
145 This is an important bugfix release.
147 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
148 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
149 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
150 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
151 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
153 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
154 register identical RRs.
155 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
156 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
157 * Fedora init script order fix
158 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
159 * Minor documentation and build fixes
161 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
166 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
169 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
170 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
171 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
172 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
173 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
175 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
177 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
179 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
184 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
186 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
187 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
188 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
189 difficult to handle by the distributors.
190 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
191 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
192 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
193 positive dialog response codes
194 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
195 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
196 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
197 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
198 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
199 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
200 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
201 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
202 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
204 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
209 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
212 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
213 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
214 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
215 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
216 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
217 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
218 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
219 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
220 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
221 with the new option "-b".
222 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
223 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
224 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
225 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
226 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
227 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
228 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
229 * Various minor fixes
231 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
236 This is a bugfix release.
238 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
239 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
240 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
241 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
242 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
244 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
246 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
251 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
252 from the last release
254 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
255 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
256 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
257 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
258 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
259 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
260 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
261 defined (Closes: #86)
262 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
263 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
264 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
265 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
266 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
267 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
268 * Fix passing in custom privileged group (previously ignored setting)
271 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
276 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
278 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
279 and not another process.
280 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
281 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
283 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
288 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
292 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
293 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
294 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
295 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
296 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
297 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
298 privileges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
299 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
300 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
301 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
302 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
304 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
305 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
306 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
308 * Documentation updates
309 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
310 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
311 * Fix random seed initialization
312 * Install SFTP static service file by default
313 * Other minor code cleanups
315 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
317 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
320 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
321 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
322 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
328 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
331 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
332 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
333 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
334 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
335 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
336 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
337 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
338 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
339 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
340 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
341 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
342 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
343 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
344 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
346 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
347 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
348 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
349 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
351 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
352 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
353 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
354 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
355 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
356 the configuration. Same for GLib.
357 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
358 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
359 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
360 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
361 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
363 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
364 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
366 * Fix build on MacOS X
367 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
368 database. The latter is still recommended
369 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
371 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
376 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
379 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
380 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
381 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
382 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
383 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
384 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
385 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
386 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
388 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
389 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
391 * update service type database
393 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
398 This is a bugfix and portability release.
402 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
403 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
404 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
405 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
407 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
408 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
413 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
414 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
415 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
416 not consider either of them major security threats.
418 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
419 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
420 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
421 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
423 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
424 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
425 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
427 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
430 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
433 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
434 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
435 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
436 chroot() is disabled)
437 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
439 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
440 Discovery Applet for Gnome
441 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
442 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
443 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
444 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
445 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
446 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
447 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
448 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
450 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
451 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
456 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
458 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
459 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
461 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
463 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
464 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
469 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
472 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
473 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
474 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
475 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
476 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
478 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
479 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
484 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
486 * Add static hosts name mappings
487 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
488 * ia64 portability fixes
489 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
490 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
492 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
494 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
495 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
500 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
502 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
503 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
504 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
505 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
506 avahi_entry_group_free().
507 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
508 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
509 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
510 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
513 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
514 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
519 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
521 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
523 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
525 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
526 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
527 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
528 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
529 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
530 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
531 is detected for gethostbyname().
532 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
533 * speed up avahi_client_free()
535 * install missing header thread-watch.h
536 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
537 * fix record updating
538 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
540 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
546 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
547 avahi-common's public interface.
549 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
550 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
551 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
552 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
554 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
557 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
558 available in our Wiki:
560 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
565 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
567 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
568 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
570 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
575 This is mostly a bugfix release.
577 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
579 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
580 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
581 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
582 * Fix avahi-publish --help
583 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
584 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
585 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
586 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
589 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
591 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
593 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
594 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
599 This is mostly a bugfix release.
601 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
602 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
603 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
604 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
605 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
606 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
607 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
608 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
609 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
612 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
613 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
615 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
616 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
618 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
619 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
620 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
622 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
623 ===============================
625 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
626 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
627 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
628 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
629 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
630 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
631 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
632 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
633 * "Passive observation of failures"
635 * Many traffic reduction improvements
638 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
639 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
645 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
646 * Minor documentation update.
651 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
652 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
653 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
654 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
656 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
657 ================================
659 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
660 any CLI language such as C#
661 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
662 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
663 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
664 * Add API to determine if services are local
665 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
666 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
668 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
670 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
671 =====================================
673 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
674 version number, as they may diverge in future.
675 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
676 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
677 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
678 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
679 * Add support for SUSE
680 * Various fixes to the build system
682 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
683 ====================================
685 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
686 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
687 * Documentation Updates
688 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
690 - Add new help option
691 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
692 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
693 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
695 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
696 ====================================
698 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
699 with the following function removals
701 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
702 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
704 The following functions were simply for debugging information
705 and their removal should not affect anyone
706 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
707 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
708 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
709 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
711 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
712 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
715 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
716 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
717 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
718 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
719 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
720 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
721 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
722 avahi_string_list_find()
723 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
724 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
725 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
726 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
727 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
728 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
729 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
730 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
731 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
732 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
733 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
734 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
735 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
736 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
737 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
738 * Added a new service type description database with human
739 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
740 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
741 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
742 if the process or machine has been suspended
743 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
747 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
748 ==================================
750 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
751 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
753 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
754 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
755 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
756 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
757 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
759 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
760 and boasts the following features
762 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
763 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
764 * An embeddable mDNS stack
765 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
766 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
767 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
768 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
769 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
770 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
771 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
772 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
773 which has no other mechanism for this.
774 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
775 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
776 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
777 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
778 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
780 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
781 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
782 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
783 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
785 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
786 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
787 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
788 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
790 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
791 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
792 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
795 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
796 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
797 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
798 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
800 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
801 to our mailinglist, goto
802 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
804 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
805 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
807 You can also find out more information from our homepage
808 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
810 We would like to thank the following people for their
811 contribution to Avahi 0.1.
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