4 This is mostly a bugfix release.
6 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
8 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
9 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
10 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
11 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
12 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS.
15 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and
18 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
20 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
21 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
26 This is mostly a bugfix release.
28 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
29 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
30 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
31 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
32 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
33 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
34 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
35 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
36 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
39 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
40 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
42 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
43 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
45 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
46 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
47 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
49 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
50 ===============================
52 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
53 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
54 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
55 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
56 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
57 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
58 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
59 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
60 * "Passive observation of failures"
62 * Many traffic reduction improvements
65 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
66 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
72 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
73 * Minor documentation update.
78 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
79 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
80 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
81 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
83 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
84 ================================
86 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
87 any CLI language such as C#
88 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
89 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
90 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
91 * Add API to determine if services are local
92 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
93 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
95 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
97 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
98 =====================================
100 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
101 version number, as they may diverge in future.
102 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
103 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
104 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
105 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
106 * Add support for SUSE
107 * Various fixes to the build system
109 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
110 ====================================
112 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
113 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
114 * Documentation Updates
115 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
117 - Add new help option
118 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
119 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
120 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
122 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
123 ====================================
125 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
126 with the following function removals
128 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
129 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
131 The following functions were simply for debugging information
132 and their removal should not affect anyone
133 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
134 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
135 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
136 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
138 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
139 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
142 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
143 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
144 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
145 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
146 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
147 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
148 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
149 avahi_string_list_find()
150 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
151 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
152 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
153 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
154 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
155 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
156 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
157 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
158 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
159 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
160 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
161 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
162 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
163 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
164 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
165 * Added a new service type description database with human
166 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
167 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
168 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
169 if the process or machine has been suspended
170 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
174 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
175 ==================================
177 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
178 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
180 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
181 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
182 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
183 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
184 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
186 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
187 and boasts the following features
189 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
190 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
191 * An embeddable mDNS stack
192 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
193 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
194 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
195 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
196 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
197 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
198 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
199 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
200 which has no other mechanism for this.
201 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
202 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
203 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
204 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
205 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
207 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
208 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
209 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
210 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
212 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
213 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
214 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
215 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
217 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
218 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
219 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
222 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
223 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
224 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
225 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
227 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
228 to our mailinglist, goto
229 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
231 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
232 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
234 You can also find out more information from our homepage
235 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
237 We would like to thank the following people for their
238 contribution to Avahi 0.1.