4 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
7 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
8 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
9 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
10 * avahi-glib: some important fixes in the GLIB adapter which are
11 required when used with newer D-Bus releases. (0.62 and up)
12 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
14 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
15 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
17 * update service type database
19 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
24 This is a bugfix and portability release.
28 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
29 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
30 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
31 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
33 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
34 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
39 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
40 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
41 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
42 not consider either of them major security threats.
44 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
45 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
46 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
47 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
49 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
50 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
51 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
53 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
56 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
59 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
60 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
61 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
63 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
65 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
66 Discovery Applet for Gnome
67 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
68 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
69 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
70 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
71 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
72 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
73 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
74 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
76 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
77 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
82 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
84 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
85 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
87 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
89 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
90 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
95 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
98 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
99 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
100 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
101 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
102 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
104 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
105 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
110 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
112 * Add static hosts name mappings
113 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
114 * ia64 portability fixes
115 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
116 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
118 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
120 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
121 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
126 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
128 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
129 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
130 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
131 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
132 avahi_entry_group_free().
133 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
134 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
135 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
136 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
139 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
140 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
145 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
147 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
149 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
151 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
152 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
153 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
154 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
155 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
156 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
157 is detected for gethostbyname().
158 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
159 * speed up avahi_client_free()
161 * install missing header thread-watch.h
162 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
163 * fix record updating
164 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
166 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
172 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
173 avahi-common's public interface.
175 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
176 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
177 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
178 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
180 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
183 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
184 available in our Wiki:
186 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
191 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
193 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
194 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
196 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
201 This is mostly a bugfix release.
203 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
205 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
206 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
207 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
208 * Fix avahi-publish --help
209 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
210 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
211 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
212 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
215 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
217 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
219 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
220 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
225 This is mostly a bugfix release.
227 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
228 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
229 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
230 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
231 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
232 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
233 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
234 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
235 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
238 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
239 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
241 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
242 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
244 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
245 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
246 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
248 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
249 ===============================
251 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
252 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
253 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
254 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
255 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
256 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
257 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
258 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
259 * "Passive observation of failures"
261 * Many traffic reduction improvements
264 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
265 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
271 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
272 * Minor documentation update.
277 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
278 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
279 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
280 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
282 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
283 ================================
285 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
286 any CLI language such as C#
287 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
288 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
289 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
290 * Add API to determine if services are local
291 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
292 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
294 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
296 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
297 =====================================
299 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
300 version number, as they may diverge in future.
301 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
302 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
303 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
304 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
305 * Add support for SUSE
306 * Various fixes to the build system
308 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
309 ====================================
311 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
312 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
313 * Documentation Updates
314 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
316 - Add new help option
317 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
318 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
319 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
321 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
322 ====================================
324 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
325 with the following function removals
327 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
328 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
330 The following functions were simply for debugging information
331 and their removal should not affect anyone
332 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
333 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
334 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
335 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
337 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
338 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
341 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
342 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
343 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
344 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
345 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
346 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
347 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
348 avahi_string_list_find()
349 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
350 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
351 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
352 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
353 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
354 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
355 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
356 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
357 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
358 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
359 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
360 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
361 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
362 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
363 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
364 * Added a new service type description database with human
365 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
366 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
367 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
368 if the process or machine has been suspended
369 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
373 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
374 ==================================
376 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
377 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
379 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
380 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
381 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
382 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
383 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
385 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
386 and boasts the following features
388 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
389 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
390 * An embeddable mDNS stack
391 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
392 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
393 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
394 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
395 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
396 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
397 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
398 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
399 which has no other mechanism for this.
400 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
401 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
402 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
403 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
404 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
406 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
407 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
408 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
409 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
411 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
412 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
413 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
414 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
416 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
417 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
418 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
421 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
422 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
423 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
424 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
426 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
427 to our mailinglist, goto
428 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
430 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
431 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
433 You can also find out more information from our homepage
434 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
436 We would like to thank the following people for their
437 contribution to Avahi 0.1.