4 This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue.
6 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie)
10 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25.
15 This is mostly a bugfix release.
17 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low
19 * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and
20 "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain
21 network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces.
22 * A lot of translation updates
24 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24.
29 This is an bugfix release.
31 * A lot of translation updates
32 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in
34 * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can
35 deal with more clients simultaneously.
36 * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links.
40 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23.
42 Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now
43 available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.
48 This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new
52 * Documentation and example code updates
53 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs
55 * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified
56 version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons
57 * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml"
58 * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the
60 * Service type database updates
61 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse
64 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22.
69 This is an important bugfix release.
71 * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets
72 (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung)
73 * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services
74 (Contributed by Marcus Clarke)
75 * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse
77 * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications
78 register identical RRs.
79 * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names
80 * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons)
81 * Fedora init script order fix
82 * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings
83 * Minor documentation and build fixes
85 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21.
90 This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security
93 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by
94 passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk)
95 * Solaris/dbm portability fixes
96 * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally
97 safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several
99 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the
101 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups
103 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20.
108 This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp".
110 * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another
111 free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope
112 this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too
113 difficult to handle by the distributors.
114 * Add man page for bssh/bvnc
115 * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains
116 * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as
117 positive dialog response codes
118 * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui
119 * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL
120 range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1
121 * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore
122 by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better
123 replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually.
124 * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd
125 * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue
126 * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates
128 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19.
133 This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new
136 * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog
137 for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of
138 it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or
139 xvncviewer if one item is selected.
140 * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson)
141 * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility
142 * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and
143 /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw")
144 * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse
145 with the new option "-b".
146 * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp)
147 * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera)
148 * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws)
149 * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is
150 make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh"
151 * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR
152 * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons)
153 * Various minor fixes
155 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18.
160 This is a bugfix release.
162 * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name
163 * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script
164 * Improve libdns_sd compatibility
165 * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix
166 * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa
168 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes
170 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17.
175 This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression
176 from the last release
178 * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in
179 many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72)
180 * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which
181 seems to work better (Closes: #72)
182 * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real
183 libdns_sd does (Closes: #64)
184 * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer
185 defined (Closes: #86)
186 * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77)
187 * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71)
188 * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68)
189 * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84)
190 * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example
191 * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h
192 * Fix passing in custom priviledged group (previously ignored setting)
195 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16.
200 This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive
202 * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel
203 and not another process.
204 * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt)
205 * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN.
207 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15.
212 This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.
216 * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
217 IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP
218 addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on
219 Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of
220 this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful
221 and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops
222 priviliges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging
223 this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read:
224 http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
225 and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for
226 adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list
228 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
229 * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
230 * Add a few new entries to the service type database
232 * Documentation updates
233 * Fix service type database building on Solaris
234 * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
235 * Fix random seed initialization
236 * Install SFTP static service file by default
237 * Other minor code cleanups
239 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.
241 Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
244 Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
245 now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
246 "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will
252 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
255 * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
256 runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
257 UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is
258 enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
259 be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
260 access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
261 --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more
262 sophisticated access control you can freely edit
263 /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
264 * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line
265 wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
266 * Bonjour API compatibility library:
267 * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
268 * Allow passing NULL as callback function for
270 * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
271 way that is compatible with Bonjour.
272 * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
273 * If the host name changes update names of static services wich
275 * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
276 other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
277 developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable
278 building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
279 * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
280 the configuration. Same for GLib.
281 * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
282 Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be
283 changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be
284 picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the
285 advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
287 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received.
288 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
290 * Fix build on MacOS X
291 * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
292 database. The latter is still recommended
293 * Minor other fixes and documentation updates
295 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13.
300 This is a bugfix and general cleanups release.
303 * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x)
304 * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks
305 * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which
306 caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events
307 too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer.
308 * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code.
309 * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups
310 * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command
312 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris
313 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful
315 * update service type database
317 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12.
322 This is a bugfix and portability release.
326 * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code
327 * add a few new entries to the servivce type database
328 * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down
329 * compatibility with newer autoconf versions
331 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
332 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10.
337 This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security
338 sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer
339 overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do
340 not consider either of them major security threats.
342 The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It
343 is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with
344 nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by
345 provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs.
347 The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can
348 become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a
349 chroot() environment (at least on Linux).
351 Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our
354 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! ***
357 * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core
358 * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data
359 * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if
360 chroot() is disabled)
361 * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is
363 * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service
364 Discovery Applet for Gnome
365 * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive
366 GnomeMeeting's broken usage
367 * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames
368 * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes
369 * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd
370 * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService()
371 * Ported to Solaris (incomplete)
372 * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database
374 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
375 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9.
380 This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements.
382 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names
383 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and
385 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS
387 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
388 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8.
393 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
396 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
397 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
398 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
399 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
400 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
402 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
403 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
408 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
410 * Add static hosts name mappings
411 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
412 * ia64 portability fixes
413 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
414 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
416 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
418 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
419 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6.
424 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
426 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
427 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
428 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
429 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
430 avahi_entry_group_free().
431 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
432 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
433 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
434 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
437 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
438 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5.
443 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
445 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
447 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
449 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
450 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
451 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
452 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
453 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
454 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
455 is detected for gethostbyname().
456 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
457 * speed up avahi_client_free()
459 * install missing header thread-watch.h
460 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
461 * fix record updating
462 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
464 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
470 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
471 avahi-common's public interface.
473 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
474 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
475 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
476 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
478 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
481 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
482 available in our Wiki:
484 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
489 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
491 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
492 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
494 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
499 This is mostly a bugfix release.
501 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
503 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
504 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
505 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
506 * Fix avahi-publish --help
507 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
508 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
509 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
510 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
513 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
515 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
517 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
518 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
523 This is mostly a bugfix release.
525 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
526 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
527 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
528 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
529 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
530 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
531 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
532 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
533 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
536 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
537 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
539 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
540 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
542 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
543 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
544 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
546 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
547 ===============================
549 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
550 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
551 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
552 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
553 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
554 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
555 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
556 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
557 * "Passive observation of failures"
559 * Many traffic reduction improvements
562 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
563 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
569 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
570 * Minor documentation update.
575 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
576 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
577 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
578 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
580 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
581 ================================
583 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
584 any CLI language such as C#
585 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
586 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
587 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
588 * Add API to determine if services are local
589 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
590 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
592 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
594 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
595 =====================================
597 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
598 version number, as they may diverge in future.
599 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
600 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
601 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
602 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
603 * Add support for SUSE
604 * Various fixes to the build system
606 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
607 ====================================
609 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
610 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
611 * Documentation Updates
612 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
614 - Add new help option
615 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
616 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
617 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
619 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
620 ====================================
622 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
623 with the following function removals
625 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
626 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
628 The following functions were simply for debugging information
629 and their removal should not affect anyone
630 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
631 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
632 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
633 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
635 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
636 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
639 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
640 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
641 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
642 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
643 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
644 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
645 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
646 avahi_string_list_find()
647 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
648 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
649 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
650 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
651 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
652 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
653 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
654 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
655 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
656 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
657 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
658 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
659 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
660 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
661 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
662 * Added a new service type description database with human
663 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
664 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
665 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
666 if the process or machine has been suspended
667 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
671 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
672 ==================================
674 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
675 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
677 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
678 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
679 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
680 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
681 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
683 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
684 and boasts the following features
686 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
687 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
688 * An embeddable mDNS stack
689 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
690 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
691 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
692 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
693 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
694 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
695 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
696 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
697 which has no other mechanism for this.
698 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
699 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
700 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
701 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
702 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
704 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
705 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
706 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
707 a network and instantly be able to interact with its services.
709 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
710 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
711 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
712 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
714 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
715 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
716 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
719 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
720 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
721 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
722 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
724 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
725 to our mailinglist, goto
726 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
728 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
729 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
731 You can also find out more information from our homepage
732 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
734 We would like to thank the following people for their
735 contribution to Avahi 0.1.
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