4 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7,
7 * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file
8 * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support
9 * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links.
10 This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details.
11 * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation
13 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
14 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7.
19 This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features
21 * Add static hosts name mappings
22 * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership
23 * ia64 portability fixes
24 * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks
25 * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an
27 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport
29 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
30 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6
35 This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates
37 * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database
38 * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly
39 * Many doxygen documentation improvements
40 * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using
41 avahi_entry_group_free().
42 * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups
43 * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt
44 * Don't accept empty TXT strings
45 * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an
48 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
49 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5
54 This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function.
56 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the
58 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and
60 * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function
61 IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether
62 libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names.
63 * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of
64 IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links
65 with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support
66 is detected for gethostbyname().
67 * add init script for Mandriva Linux
68 * speed up avahi_client_free()
70 * install missing header thread-watch.h
71 * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions
73 * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense
75 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2,
81 This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to
82 avahi-common's public interface.
84 * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation
85 * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions
86 * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified
87 * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions
89 This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and
92 A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is
93 available in our Wiki:
95 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread
100 This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP!
102 * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings
103 * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout
105 This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2.
110 This is mostly a bugfix release.
112 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and
114 * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects
115 * Miscellaneous documentation updates
116 * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library
117 * Fix avahi-publish --help
118 * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a
119 user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS
120 * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create
121 * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new()
124 This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1.
126 Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website!
128 And, most importantly, we now have a Logo:
129 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png
134 This is mostly a bugfix release.
136 * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this
137 issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side
138 effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly.
139 * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD
140 * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion()
141 * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of
142 "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure
143 full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box.
144 * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library
147 We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging
148 does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions.
150 This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is
151 true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface.
153 Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS
154 which contains some information about maintaining full build system
155 compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility.
157 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
158 ===============================
160 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
161 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
162 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
163 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
164 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
165 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
166 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
167 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
168 * "Passive observation of failures"
170 * Many traffic reduction improvements
173 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
174 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
180 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
181 * Minor documentation update.
186 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
187 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
188 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
189 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
191 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
192 ================================
194 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
195 any CLI language such as C#
196 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
197 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
198 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
199 * Add API to determine if services are local
200 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
201 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
203 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
205 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
206 =====================================
208 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
209 version number, as they may diverge in future.
210 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
211 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
212 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
213 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
214 * Add support for SUSE
215 * Various fixes to the build system
217 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
218 ====================================
220 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
221 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
222 * Documentation Updates
223 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
225 - Add new help option
226 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
227 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
228 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
230 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
231 ====================================
233 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
234 with the following function removals
236 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
237 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
239 The following functions were simply for debugging information
240 and their removal should not affect anyone
241 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
242 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
243 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
244 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
246 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
247 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
250 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
251 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
252 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
253 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
254 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
255 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
256 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
257 avahi_string_list_find()
258 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
259 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
260 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
261 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
262 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
263 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
264 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
265 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
266 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
267 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
268 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
269 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
270 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
271 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
272 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
273 * Added a new service type description database with human
274 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
275 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
276 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
277 if the process or machine has been suspended
278 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
282 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
283 ==================================
285 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
286 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
288 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
289 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
290 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
291 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
292 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
294 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
295 and boasts the following features
297 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
298 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
299 * An embeddable mDNS stack
300 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
301 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
302 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
303 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
304 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
305 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
306 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
307 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
308 which has no other mechanism for this.
309 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
310 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
311 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
312 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
313 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
315 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
316 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
317 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
318 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
320 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
321 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
322 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
323 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
325 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
326 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
327 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
330 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
331 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
332 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
333 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
335 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
336 to our mailinglist, goto
337 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
339 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
340 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
342 You can also find out more information from our homepage
343 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
345 We would like to thank the following people for their
346 contribution to Avahi 0.1.