4 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
6 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
8 * fix build on bi-arch platforms and on GNU/kFreeBSD
9 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
10 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
11 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
12 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
13 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
14 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
15 is detected for gethostbyname().
16 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
17 * speed up avahi_client_free()
19 * install missing header thread-watch.h
21 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
27 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
28 avahi-common's public interface.
30 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
31 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
32 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
33 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
35 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
38 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
39 available in our Wiki:
41 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
46 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
48 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
49 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
51 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
56 This is mostly a bugfix release.
58 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
60 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
61 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
62 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
63 * Fix avahi-publish --help
64 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
65 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
66 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
67 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
70 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
72 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
74 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
75 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
80 This is mostly a bugfix release.
82 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
83 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
84 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
85 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
86 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
87 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
88 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
89 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
90 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
93 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
94 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
96 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
97 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
99 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
100 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
101 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
103 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
104 ===============================
106 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
107 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
108 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
109 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
110 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
111 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
112 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
113 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
114 * "Passive observation of failures"
116 * Many traffic reduction improvements
119 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
120 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
126 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
127 * Minor documentation update.
132 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
133 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
134 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
135 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
137 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
138 ================================
140 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
141 any CLI language such as C#
142 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
143 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
144 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
145 * Add API to determine if services are local
146 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
147 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
149 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
151 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
152 =====================================
154 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
155 version number, as they may diverge in future.
156 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
157 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
158 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
159 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
160 * Add support for SUSE
161 * Various fixes to the build system
163 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
164 ====================================
166 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
167 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
168 * Documentation Updates
169 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
171 - Add new help option
172 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
173 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
174 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
176 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
177 ====================================
179 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
180 with the following function removals
182 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
183 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
185 The following functions were simply for debugging information
186 and their removal should not affect anyone
187 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
188 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
189 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
190 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
192 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
193 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
196 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
197 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
198 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
199 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
200 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
201 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
202 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
203 avahi_string_list_find()
204 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
205 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
206 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
207 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
208 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
209 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
210 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
211 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
212 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
213 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
214 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
215 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
216 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
217 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
218 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
219 * Added a new service type description database with human
220 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
221 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
222 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
223 if the process or machine has been suspended
224 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
228 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
229 ==================================
231 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
232 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
234 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
235 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
236 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
237 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
238 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
240 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
241 and boasts the following features
243 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
244 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
245 * An embeddable mDNS stack
246 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
247 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
248 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
249 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
250 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
251 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
252 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
253 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
254 which has no other mechanism for this.
255 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
256 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
257 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
258 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
259 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
261 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
262 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
263 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
264 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
266 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
267 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
268 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
269 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
271 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
272 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
273 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
276 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
277 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
278 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
279 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
281 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
282 to our mailinglist, goto
283 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
285 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
286 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
288 You can also find out more information from our homepage
289 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
291 We would like to thank the following people for their
292 contribution to Avahi 0.1.