1Avahi 0.6.25 2============ 3 4This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue. 5 6 * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie) 7 * i18n updates 8 * Minor other updates 9 10This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25. 11 12Avahi 0.6.24 13============ 14 15This is mostly a bugfix release. 16 17 * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low 18 risk) 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 23 24This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24. 25 26Avahi 0.6.23 27============ 28 29This is an bugfix release. 30 31 * A lot of translation updates 32 * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in 33 (patch from lkundrak) 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. 37 * Build fixes 38 * Minor other updates 39 40This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23. 41 42Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now 43available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi. 44 45Avahi 0.6.22 46============ 47 48This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new 49features. 50 51 * i18n support 52 * Documentation and example code updates 53 * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs 54 manual setup) 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 59 application 60 * Service type database updates 61 * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse 62 * Minor other updates 63 64This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22. 65 66Avahi 0.6.21 67============ 68 69This is an important bugfix release. 70 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 76 domains. 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 84 85This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21. 86 87Avahi 0.6.20 88============ 89 90This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security 91vulnerability. 92 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 98 distributions. 99 * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the 100 command line. 101 * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups 102 103This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20. 104 105Avahi 0.6.19 106============ 107 108This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp". 109 110 * 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 127 128This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19. 129 130Avahi 0.6.18 131============ 132 133This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new 134component. 135 136 * 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 154 155This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18. 156 157Avahi 0.6.17 158============ 159 160This is a bugfix release. 161 162 * 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 167 * IA64 fixes 168 * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes 169 170This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17. 171 172Avahi 0.6.16 173============ 174 175This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression 176from the last release 177 178 * 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) 193 (Closes: #85) 194 195This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16. 196 197Avahi 0.6.15 198============ 199 200This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive 201 202 * 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. 206 207This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15. 208 209Avahi 0.6.14 210============ 211 212This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component. 213 214Changes: 215 216 * 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 227 thread: 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 231 * s/D-?BUS/D-Bus/g 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 238 239This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14. 240 241Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches 242welcome. 243 244Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for 245now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to 246"configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will 247fail. 248 249Avahi 0.6.13 250============ 251 252This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. 253 254Changes: 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 269 DNSServiceRegister() 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 274 contain wildcards. 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 286 digits. 287 * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received. 288 * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python 289 support 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 294 295This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13. 296 297Avahi 0.6.12 298============ 299 300This is a bugfix and general cleanups release. 301 302Changes: 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 311 line option 312 * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris 313 * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful 314 in shell scripts. 315 * update service type database 316 317This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12. 318 319Avahi 0.6.11 320============ 321 322This is a bugfix and portability release. 323 324Changes: 325 * Ported to Solaris 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 330 331This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 3320.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10. 333 334Avahi 0.6.10 335============ 336 337This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security 338sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer 339overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do 340not consider either of them major security threats. 341 342The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It 343is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with 344nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by 345provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs. 346 347The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can 348become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a 349chroot() environment (at least on Linux). 350 351Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our 352code. Hence: 353 354 *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! *** 355 356Changes: 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 362 terminated 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 373 374This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 3750.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9. 376 377Avahi 0.6.9 378=========== 379 380This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. 381 382 * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names 383 * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and 384 AvahiAddressResolver 385 * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS 386 387This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 3880.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8. 389 390Avahi 0.6.8 391=========== 392 393This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7, 394please update ASAP! 395 396 * 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 401 402This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 4030.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7. 404 405Avahi 0.6.7 406=========== 407 408This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features 409 410 * 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 415 empty entry group. 416 * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport 417 418This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 4190.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6. 420 421Avahi 0.6.6 422=========== 423 424This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates 425 426 * 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 435 existing service 436 437This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 4380.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5. 439 440Avahi 0.6.5 441=========== 442 443This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function. 444 445 * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the 446 network 447 * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and 448 for non-DBUS builds 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() 458 * man page updates 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 463 464This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 4650.6.3 and 0.6.4. 466 467Avahi 0.6.4 468=========== 469 470This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to 471avahi-common's public interface. 472 473 * 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 477 478This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and 4790.6.3. 480 481A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is 482available in our Wiki: 483 484 http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread 485 486Avahi 0.6.3 487=========== 488 489This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP! 490 491 * 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 493 494This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2. 495 496Avahi 0.6.2 497=========== 498 499This is mostly a bugfix release. 500 501 * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and 502 0.5 is retained) 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() 511 * Other minor fixes 512 513This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1. 514 515Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website! 516 517And, most importantly, we now have a Logo: 518 http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png 519 520Avahi 0.6.1 521=========== 522 523This is mostly a bugfix release. 524 525 * 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 534 * Other fixes 535 536We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging 537does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions. 538 539This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is 540true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface. 541 542Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS 543which contains some information about maintaining full build system 544compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility. 545 546Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release 547=============================== 548 549 * 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" 558 * chroot() support 559 * Many traffic reduction improvements 560 * Bugfixes, cleanups 561 562This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see 563docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes. 564 565Avahi 0.5.2 566=========== 567 568 * Bug fix release. 569 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken) 570 * Minor documentation update. 571 572Avahi 0.5.1 573=========== 574 575 * 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 579 580Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release 581================================ 582 583 * 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 591 other languages 592 * Various build and run-time bug fixes 593 594Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyv���� p��iv����' release 595===================================== 596 597 * 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 605 606Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos D��as' release 607==================================== 608 609 * 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 613 * avahi-bookmarks 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 618 619Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzie�� Dobry' release 620==================================== 621 622 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client 623 with the following function removals 624 625 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API 626 - avahi_service_resolver_block() 627 628 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() 634 635 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS 636 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions 637 have changed. 638 639 * 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 668 * ... 669 * PROFIT!!! 670 671Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release 672================================== 673 674The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of 675Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag". 676 677Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. 678It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts 679running on a local network with no specific configuration. For 680example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to 681print to, files to look at and people to talk to. 682 683Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification 684and boasts the following features 685 686 * 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. 703 704mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy 705configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf" 706(http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into 707a network and instantly be able to interact with its services. 708 709Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is 710available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD 711specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many 712platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions. 713 714While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and 715available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi 716client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their 717programs. 718 719We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone 720could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think 721you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by 722emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st. 723 724If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe 725to our mailinglist, goto 726 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi 727 728You can download Avahi 0.1 here 729 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz 730 731You can also find out more information from our homepage 732 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi 733 734We would like to thank the following people for their 735contribution to Avahi 0.1. 736 Lennart Poeterring 737 Trent Lloyd 738 Sebastien Estienne 739 Ross Burton 740 Tommi Vainikainen 741 Joe Shaw 742 Ikke 743 Steev 744 745Cheers, 746The Avahi Team 747 748$Id$ 749