| Avahi 0.8, the 'Dobro Jutro' release | |
| ==================================== | |
| The Avahi 0.8 release brings a number of new features and bug fix changes | |
| including a backward-compatible addition to the D-Bus API and the avahi-core | |
| API. | |
| The existing API is still fully supported however clients using the new | |
| API will not work with older Avahi releases. The avahi-client library is not | |
| affected. See the "API Changes" section for further details. | |
| New Features: | |
| - New options for filtering reflected queries between networks (reflect-filter) | |
| - New mainloop integration for Qt5 and libevent | |
| - docs/THREADS: Information for multi-threaded avahi-client apps | |
| - Listen on loopback interfaces by default, allowing local-only services to be | |
| consumed by the local machine | |
| - New D-Bus V2 API and additions to the avahi-core API for splitting "New" | |
| calls into "Prepare" and "Start". See "API Changes" for more details. | |
| Notable Changes: | |
| - avahi-autoipd: Initial IP selection based on MAC previously ignored first | |
| octet - this will cause all hosts to select a different link-local IP than | |
| previous versions based on the same MAC address | |
| - avahi-daemon: Delay sending results on an object for 10ms in an attempt to | |
| give clients enough time to subscribe to signals from the new object after | |
| receiving it's path in response so the New call. See "API Changes" for more | |
| info | |
| Bug Fixes: | |
| - avahi-python: Various Python 3 enhancements including encoding unicode | |
| strings as UTF-8 | |
| - avahi-common: avahi_string_list_to_string will now escape embedded quotes, | |
| backslashes and control characters. | |
| - avahi-daemon: Fix a crash when txt records have an empty value in .xml | |
| service files | |
| - avahi-daemon: reflector: do not incorrectly cache responses on outgoing | |
| interfaces. Previously we would incorrectly cache responses reflected from | |
| one interface on the outgoing interface. These responses were later sent to | |
| clients on that network even if the original client had disappeared and could | |
| cause those clients to have a hostname conflict with themselves on restart. | |
| We no longer incorrectly cache such traffic. | |
| Security Fixes: | |
| - Drop legacy unicast queries from address not on local link which can lead to | |
| UDP traffic amplification attacks (CVE-2017-6519) | |
| API Changes: The avahi-core API and D-Bus API have implemented a new API where | |
| a call to the "New" method can now be split into a "Prepare" and then "Start" | |
| method for some objects. The previous "New" API is still fully supported and | |
| there is no intention to deprecate it. | |
| This change affects the the following objects: AsyncAddressResolver, | |
| AsyncHostNameResolver, AsyncServiceResolver, DomainBrowser, RecordBrowser, | |
| ServiceBrowser, ServiceTypeBrowser | |
| This is because the D-Bus implementation in some languages would only bind to | |
| signals of an object after it was created and had received the new object's | |
| path. This led to such languages missing the initial results sent between the | |
| time the object was created and it had setup a filter to receive it's signals. | |
| This primarily occured in languages that create dynamic bindings for D-Bus | |
| objects using introspection such as Python. The avahi-client C api was not | |
| affected as it globally binds to all avahi signals without specifying | |
| individual object paths and still makes use of the V1 API. | |
| The v2 Prepare/Start API is available under the new | |
| org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server2 D-Bus interface and also has corresponding | |
| avahi_s_* calls for users of the embedded avahi-core library. | |
| The old org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server interface is still supported and there is | |
| no intention to remove this API. Additionally this problem has also been solved | |
| for old clients by adding a very small 10ms delay before we start sending | |
| results to give the client time to bind to the signals which should silently | |
| fix the issue in most cases without introducing a noticable or impactful delay. | |
| Clients implementing the new org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server2 D-Bus interface will | |
| not work with older Avahi daemons. It is suggested that clients may wish to | |
| either check for and fallback to the older API version, or continue to use the | |
| OLD API and rely on the 10ms timer to resolve the issue. | |
| Big thank-you to everyone contributing to the project through issues & pull | |
| requests, including the the following people who contributed changes to this | |
| release: Daniel S, David Kerr, Eric Bischoff, James Rudd, Jan Alexander | |
| Steffens (heftig), Karl Cronburg, Krzesimir Nowak, Mario Blättermann, Martin | |
| Blanchard, Michal Sekletar, msk-nightingale, Philip Prindeville, Piotr Drąg, | |
| Rafael Fontenelle, scootergrisen, Simon Lauser, Simon McVittie, Thomas Jollans, | |
| Tony Garnock-Jones, Trent Lloyd, wisd0me, Yclept Nemo, Zlopez, Дамјан | |
| Георгиевски. | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x and 0.7. | |
| Avahi 0.7, the 'Adieu' release | |
| ============================== | |
| The Avahi 0.7 release brings two new features, binary TXT records in XML | |
| service files and the ability to start the gobject client in a custom context. | |
| A number of other changes are detailed below. | |
| New Features: | |
| * Add support for binary values in TXT records in XML service files by | |
| specifying value-format="text|binary-hex|binary-base64". If not specified, | |
| defaults to the normal value of "text" (thus backwards compatible) | |
| * avahi-gobject: Allow starting the client in a custom GMainContext by | |
| passing context to ga_client_start_in_context instead of ga_client_start | |
| (avahi-gobject minor version has been incremented) | |
| Thanks to Krzesimir Nowak for both of these additions. | |
| Notable Changes: | |
| * avahi-daemon: Remove all default rlimits from avahi-daemon.conf, as two | |
| main problems happened with firstly rlimit-nproc causing avahi to fail when | |
| started in a container without user namespaces and secondly because memory | |
| rlimits were causing avahi to crash in some cases. Leave it up to the init | |
| system to impose any modified limits instead. It is recommend to ship this | |
| change in distribution default config files. | |
| * avahi-common: Fix watch cleanup issue in watch_free | |
| * avahi-discover (python): Updated for Python3 & GTK3 | |
| * avahi-autoipd: clear previously set address before binding a new one | |
| * avahi-autoipd: fix dhclient hooks to check for avahi-autoipd before running | |
| * build: Move default rundir from /var/run to /run as per modern system setups | |
| Other Changes: | |
| * build: Fix the printed value of "Building libavahi-client" in ./configure | |
| * build: autogen.sh improved to work when called from another directory | |
| * build: Fix warnings when compiling against musl libc | |
| * Updated translations: Polish, Ukranian, Turkish, Indonesian, Swedish, | |
| Hungarian, Occitan (New), Czech, Chinese (Simplified) | |
| * avahi-compat-libdns_sd: Fix incorrect URL in warnings | |
| * service-type-database: Add new service Types: _ipps._tcp, _xpra._tcp | |
| * avahi-dnsconfd: Update manpage with the correct action script name | |
| * avahi-gobject: Use the correct shared library name in AvahiCore-0.6.gir | |
| * avahi-gobject: Fix build failing under some locales | |
| * avahi-common/dbus-watch-glue.c: remove Unneeded semicolon | |
| * Update gentoo init scripts for newer openrc version | |
| Big thank-you to everyone contributing to the project through issues & pull | |
| requests, including the the following people who contributed changes to this | |
| release: Andika Triwidada, Andreas Henriksson, Anthony G. Basile, | |
| Antoine Martin, Ben Chan, Cedric Hombourger, Cedric Valmary, Gabor Kelemen, | |
| HMikolon, Jan Alexander, Steffens (heftig), Josef Andersson, Jussi Kukkonen, | |
| Krzesimir Nowak, Kylie McClain, Michael Biebl, Muhammet Kara, Peter Meerwald, | |
| Philip Withnall, Piotr Drąg, Sebastiaan Lokhorst, Thomas Kluyver, Trent Lloyd | |
| This release is otherwise backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x except for | |
| ga_client_start_in_context (new function, incremented avahi-goject SO minor | |
| version) and value-format in XML service files. | |
| Avahi 0.6.32 | |
| ============ | |
| This is largely a bugfix release, non-bug changes are listed separately. | |
| * Don't log warnings about invalid packets, commonly triggered by Windows 10 systems | |
| * Fix issue with bad packet size estimation, causing probes to continuously be sent when hosting large numbers of services (Lee, Chun-Yi) | |
| * Fix build on Solaris/SmartOS (filio.h issue) | |
| * Fix build on FreeBSD (PCAP_D_IN issue) | |
| * Fix debug output with libdaemon >= 0.14 | |
| * avahi_server_set_browse_domains now correctly uses the provided list, instead of re-using the list from the configuration file | |
| * Set nl_pid to 0, this will automatically assign the value and prevent conflicts per netlink(7). (Bug #334) | |
| * Check for netlink pid=0 (kernel) instead of uid=0, which works correctly with network & user namespaces. | |
| * Fix reversed IFA_LOCAL and IFA_ADDRESS checks. (Avahi#355) | |
| * Don't fail the build on deprecated GTK/GLIB usage | |
| * Gracefully fail if SO_REUSEPORT is not available | |
| * Minor Python 3 update for the python ServiceTypeDatabase test usage of print, should be backwards compatible | |
| * avahi-autoipd: Fix incorrect usage of IFLA_RTA instead of IFA_RTA which could crash on ARM (Closes: #42) | |
| Changes | |
| * GTK3 deprecation fixes including vbox, g_object_unref on GdkCursor, stock items, composite API | |
| * New feature: host-name-from-machine-id= to configure the hostname from the machine-id, defaults to off. | |
| * Configuration change: Enable IPv6 by default (use-ipv6=yes) | |
| * Configuration change: Disable publishing HINFO and WORKSTATION records in the default config (publish-hinfo=no, publish-workstation=no) | |
| * Configuration change: Don't browse 0pointer.de and zeroconf.org wide-area by default (browse-domain=) | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 32. | |
| Avahi 0.6.32-rc | |
| =============== | |
| This is largely a bugfix release, non-bug changes are listed separately. | |
| * Don't log warnings about invalid packets, commonly triggered by Windows 10 systems | |
| * Fix issue with bad packet size estimation, causing probes to continuously be sent when hosting large numbers of services (Lee, Chun-Yi) | |
| * Fix build on Solaris/SmartOS (filio.h issue) | |
| * Fix build on FreeBSD (PCAP_D_IN issue) | |
| * Fix debug output with libdaemon >= 0.14 | |
| * avahi_server_set_browse_domains now correctly uses the provided list, instead of re-using the list from the configuration file | |
| * Set nl_pid to 0, this will automatically assign the value and prevent conflicts per netlink(7). (Bug #334) | |
| * Check for netlink pid=0 (kernel) instead of uid=0, which works correctly with network & user namespaces. | |
| * Fix reversed IFA_LOCAL and IFA_ADDRESS checks. (Avahi#355) | |
| * Don't fail the build on deprecated GTK/GLIB usage | |
| * Gracefully fail if SO_REUSEPORT is not available | |
| * Minor Python 3 update for the python ServiceTypeDatabase test usage of print, should be backwards compatible | |
| Changes | |
| * GTK3 deprecation fixes including vbox, g_object_unref on GdkCursor, stock items, composite API | |
| * New feature: host-name-from-machine-id= to configure the hostname from the machine-id, defaults to off. | |
| * Configuration change: Enable IPv6 by default (use-ipv6=yes) | |
| * Configuration change: Disable publishing HINFO and WORKSTATION records in the default config (publish-hinfo=no, publish-workstation=no) | |
| * Configuration change: Don't browse 0pointer.de and zeroconf.org wide-area by default (browse-domain=) | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 32. | |
| Avahi 0.6.31 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Fix compatibility with newest autoconf | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 31. | |
| Avahi 0.6.30 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Make IPv6 work again | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 30. | |
| Avahi 0.6.29 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Updates regarding systemd integration | |
| * Compatibility with newer gtk3 and gobject introspection | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| * Fix CVE-2011-1002, fixing the fix for CVE-2010-2244 | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 29. | |
| Avahi 0.6.28 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Updates regarding systemd integration | |
| * Properly avoid bus activation on non-systemd systems | |
| * Compatibility with newer gtk3 and gobject introspection | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 28. | |
| Avahi 0.6.27 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Various updates to the systemd integration | |
| * Reset all signal handlers and the signal mask on initialization | |
| * Don't trip over SIGPIPE | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 27. | |
| Avahi 0.6.26 | |
| ============ | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue and | |
| adds a couple of minor new features. | |
| * Fix CVE-2010-2244 (Ludwig Nussel) | |
| * Support for Gtk+ 3 and Gtk+ Introspection | |
| * Native systemd socket activation support | |
| * Add systemd service files | |
| * Add various resource control options, for traffic rate limiting as well as | |
| cache size and D-Bus client object limits. | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 26. | |
| Avahi 0.6.25 | |
| ============ | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release but also fixes a low risk security issue. | |
| * Fix CVE-2009-0758 (Rob Leslie) | |
| * i18n updates | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 25. | |
| Avahi 0.6.24 | |
| ============ | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release. | |
| * A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (low | |
| risk) | |
| * Add two new configuration directives "allow-interfaces" and | |
| "deny-interfaces" which can be used to make Avahi ignore certain | |
| network interfaces or only use certain network interfaces. | |
| * A lot of translation updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 24. | |
| Avahi 0.6.23 | |
| ============ | |
| This is an bugfix release. | |
| * A lot of translation updates | |
| * Beef up bnvc quite a bit, including passing a domain to browse in | |
| (patch from lkundrak) | |
| * Increase numer of open files resource limit to 300 so that we can | |
| deal with more clients simultaneously. | |
| * Rework 'poof' algorithm a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links. | |
| * Build fixes | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 23. | |
| Please note that Avahi's SVN has been converted to GIT and is now | |
| available on git://git.0pointer.de/avahi. | |
| Avahi 0.6.22 | |
| ============ | |
| This is an important bugfix release, and adds a couple of new | |
| features. | |
| * i18n support | |
| * Documentation and example code updates | |
| * Support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp (needs | |
| manual setup) | |
| * Added a new component libavahi-gobject, which is a GObjectified | |
| version of the Avahi API, contributed by Sjoerd Simons | |
| * Major BSD compatibility improvements, contributed by "zml" | |
| * avahi-ui: Allow overwriting of pretty service name by the | |
| application | |
| * Service type database updates | |
| * Add new option --parsable to avahi-browse | |
| * Minor other updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 22. | |
| Avahi 0.6.21 | |
| ============ | |
| This is an important bugfix release. | |
| * Make avahi-autoipd actually produce correct ARP packets | |
| (Identified and patched by Pauline Yeung) | |
| * Add FreeBSD kqueue support for watching /etc/avahi/services | |
| (Contributed by Marcus Clarke) | |
| * Use search domain from /etc/resolv.conf as additional browse | |
| domains. | |
| * No longer return a conflict error when two local applications | |
| register identical RRs. | |
| * Properly find alternative service/host names for very long names | |
| * DNS name compression fix (Sjoerd Simons) | |
| * Fedora init script order fix | |
| * Several fixes to make gcc produce less warnings | |
| * Minor documentation and build fixes | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 21. | |
| Avahi 0.6.20 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release and contains a fix for a low risk security | |
| vulnerability. | |
| * Fix a local DoS vulnerability, where an assert() could be hit by | |
| passing empty TXT data over D-Bus to the Avahi daemon. (Low Risk) | |
| * Solaris/dbm portability fixes | |
| * Close all open file descriptors when daemonizing. Is generally | |
| safer and fixes a few issues with broken init systems of several | |
| distributions. | |
| * avahi-autoipd: allow passing the path of the action script on the | |
| command line. | |
| * Several minor build fixes and other cleanups | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 20. | |
| Avahi 0.6.19 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release, but also adds a new component "avahi-ui-sharp". | |
| * Rename zssh/zvnc to bssh/bvnc to avoid a name collision with another | |
| free software tool, on request of the Debian developers. I hope | |
| this name change early in the life of bssh/bvnc won't be too | |
| difficult to handle by the distributors. | |
| * Add man page for bssh/bvnc | |
| * avahi-ui: fix segfault when browsing in empty domains | |
| * avahi-ui: allow GTK_RESPONSE_OK, _YES and _APPLY besides _ACCEPT as | |
| positive dialog response codes | |
| * avahi-ui-sharp: Add Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui | |
| * Don't pick the first and the last 256 IP addresses from the IPV4LL | |
| range in avahi-autoipd, as required by RC3927 section 2.1 | |
| * No longer publish the Avahi service identification cookie anymore | |
| by default. It was a bad idea in the first place. A better | |
| replacement will hopefully be made available in Avahi eventually. | |
| * Properly set umask before writing to /var/lib/avahi-autoipd | |
| * Update .deskop files to work around KDE menu issue | |
| * Various build fixes and other minor fixes and updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 19. | |
| Avahi 0.6.18 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release, adds a few new features and includes a new | |
| component. | |
| * Add a new library libavahi-ui which contains a standard Gtk dialog | |
| for browsing for services, and a new tool "zssh" that makes use of | |
| it, which allows browsing for SSH and VNC servers and starts ssh or | |
| xvncviewer if one item is selected. | |
| * avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD (original patch from Bruce M Simpson) | |
| * Improve OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOS X compatibility | |
| * Linux inotify support for monitoring /etc/avahi/services/ and | |
| /etc/avahi/hosts for changes. (Original patch from "behanw") | |
| * Add the ability to dump the service type database from avahi-browse | |
| with the new option "-b". | |
| * Enable GCC stack smashing protection if available and working (Patch from tedp) | |
| * Improve compatibility with Bonjour's libdns_sd (patch from Chris Rivera) | |
| * Various updates to the service type database (based on patches from uws) | |
| * Fix a local DoS vulnerability (very low priority, all you can do is | |
| make Avahi hit an assert()); problem identified by "jamesh" | |
| * Fix a problem when constantly generating conflict events for an RR | |
| * Fix registration of very large RRs (original patch from Sjoerd Simons) | |
| * Various minor fixes | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 18. | |
| Avahi 0.6.17 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release. | |
| * Don't accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name | |
| * Allow running avahi-bookmarks as CGI script | |
| * Improve libdns_sd compatibility | |
| * Stability: libdns_sd mutex locking order fix | |
| * Publish IPv6 addresses via IPv4 and vice versa | |
| * IA64 fixes | |
| * A lot of minor cleanups and fixes | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 17. | |
| Avahi 0.6.16 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release, it fixes one DoS (100% CPU Usage) and a regression | |
| from the last release | |
| * Revert previous patch to check nlmsg_pid as it is bogus and breaks in | |
| many cases, notably when using NetworkManager (Closes: #72) | |
| * Replace with new SO_PASSCRED-based check of the sending UID, which | |
| seems to work better (Closes: #72) | |
| * Handle some errors in libdns_sd more gracefully the way the real | |
| libdns_sd does (Closes: #64) | |
| * Apply fix for Linux 2.6.19+ where IFA_RTA / IFLA_RTA is no longer | |
| defined (Closes: #86) | |
| * Fix doxygen comments for avahi watch, thanks to tedp (Closes: #77) | |
| * Make d-bus version detection work for >= 1.0 (Closes: #71) | |
| * Dont dbus_connection_close on shared dbus connections (Closes: #68) | |
| * Fix potential endless loop in dns label unpacking code (Closes: #84) | |
| * Fix bogus assertion in client-publish-service.c example | |
| * Mild fix to some doxygen docs for avahi-common/address.h | |
| * Fix passing in custom privileged group (previously ignored setting) | |
| (Closes: #85) | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 16. | |
| Avahi 0.6.15 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix release, this bug is potentially security sensitive | |
| * Check that netlink messages actually originate from the kernel | |
| and not another process. | |
| * Fix build on NetBSD (thanks to Daniel S. Haischt) | |
| * Fix dbus_service_browser not setting AVAHI_LOOKUP_RESULT_OUR_OWN. | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 15. | |
| Avahi 0.6.14 | |
| ============ | |
| This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component. | |
| Changes: | |
| * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of | |
| IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP | |
| addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on | |
| Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of | |
| this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful | |
| and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops | |
| privileges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging | |
| this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read: | |
| http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd | |
| and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for | |
| adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list | |
| thread: | |
| http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html | |
| * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations | |
| * Add a few new entries to the service type database | |
| * s/D-?BUS/D-Bus/g | |
| * Documentation updates | |
| * Fix service type database building on Solaris | |
| * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs | |
| * Fix random seed initialization | |
| * Install SFTP static service file by default | |
| * Other minor code cleanups | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14. | |
| Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches | |
| welcome. | |
| Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for | |
| now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to | |
| "configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will | |
| fail. | |
| Avahi 0.6.13 | |
| ============ | |
| This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. | |
| Changes: | |
| * Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during | |
| runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the | |
| UNIX group "netdev", which is the same access group that is | |
| enforced by GNOME's NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably | |
| be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit | |
| access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing | |
| --with-avahi-priv-access-group= to "configure". If you need more | |
| sophisticated access control you can freely edit | |
| /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf. | |
| * Add a new utility "avahi-set-host-name" which is a command line | |
| wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method. | |
| * Bonjour API compatibility library: | |
| * Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord() | |
| * Allow passing NULL as callback function for | |
| DNSServiceRegister() | |
| * Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a | |
| way that is compatible with Bonjour. | |
| * Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h | |
| * If the host name changes update names of static services wich | |
| contain wildcards. | |
| * Don't build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into | |
| other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded | |
| developers. Pass --enable-core-docs to "configure" to enable | |
| building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12. | |
| * Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in | |
| the configuration. Same for GLib. | |
| * Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In | |
| Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of "foobar" would be | |
| changed to the new name "foobar2". With 0.6.13 "foobar-2" will be | |
| picked instead. This follows Bonjour's behaviour and has the | |
| advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in | |
| digits. | |
| * Don't disable all static services when SIGHUP is received. | |
| * Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python | |
| support | |
| * Fix build on MacOS X | |
| * Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type | |
| database. The latter is still recommended | |
| * Minor other fixes and documentation updates | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 13. | |
| Avahi 0.6.12 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix and general cleanups release. | |
| Changes: | |
| * Compatibility with newer D-Bus releases (0.9x) | |
| * Compatibility with DBUS builds with --disable-checks | |
| * Fix an error in the DBUS event loop wrapping which | |
| caused the avahi client libraries to dispatch some events | |
| too late when used with D-BUS 0.62 and newer. | |
| * avahi-daemon: fix a minor memory leak in the DBUS code. | |
| * avahi-glib: some GLIB adapter cleanups | |
| * avahi-dnsconfd: fix segfault when passing an invalid command | |
| line option | |
| * avahi-test: portability patches for Solaris | |
| * avahi-browse: flush STDOUT after each line, making it useful | |
| in shell scripts. | |
| * update service type database | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 12. | |
| Avahi 0.6.11 | |
| ============ | |
| This is a bugfix and portability release. | |
| Changes: | |
| * Ported to Solaris | |
| * avahi-sharp: fix a fatal error in object disposal code | |
| * add a few new entries to the servivce type database | |
| * fix potential crash when the daemon shuts down | |
| * compatibility with newer autoconf versions | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.9 and 0.6.10. | |
| Avahi 0.6.10 | |
| ============ | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release. Two of the bugs fixed are security | |
| sensitive: a remote denial-of-service vulnerability and a buffer | |
| overflow that can allow local users to become the 'avahi' user. We do | |
| not consider either of them major security threats. | |
| The DoS vulnerability can be exploited from a local network only. It | |
| is not worth much, though, since mDNS can easily be flooded with | |
| nonsense anyway. It is easy to kick remote mDNS/DNS-SD services by | |
| provoking a name conflict in perfect accordance with the specs. | |
| The buffer overflow is hard to exploit remotely, only local users can | |
| become the 'avahi' user. In addition the user is trapped inside a | |
| chroot() environment (at least on Linux). | |
| Anyhow, our security assessments are possibly as buggy as our | |
| code. Hence: | |
| *** PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INSTALLATION ASAP! *** | |
| Changes: | |
| * Fix a buffer overflow in avahi-core | |
| * Refuse to process invalid UTF8 data | |
| * Automatically reconnect to the DBUS if we're kicked. (Works only if | |
| chroot() is disabled) | |
| * Don't hit an assert() in the client libs when the Avahi daemon is | |
| terminated | |
| * Enumerate all service types in the database in the Service | |
| Discovery Applet for Gnome | |
| * Improve the Bonjour compatibility layer to make it survive | |
| GnomeMeeting's broken usage | |
| * Deal properly with local non-ASCII hostnames | |
| * AMD64 and FreeBSD portability fixes | |
| * Filter double DNS server entries in avahi-dnsconfd | |
| * Fix a locking bug in avahi-sharp's EntryGroup.AddService() | |
| * Ported to Solaris (incomplete) | |
| * Add _airport._tcp to our service type database | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8 and 0.6.9. | |
| Avahi 0.6.9 | |
| =========== | |
| This release fixes some bugs and includes minor enhancements. | |
| * Don't allow registration of address records with invalid host names | |
| * Clean up argument validity checking for AvahiHostNameResolver and | |
| AvahiAddressResolver | |
| * Fix Avahi builds without DBUS | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7 and 0.6.8. | |
| Avahi 0.6.8 | |
| =========== | |
| This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features. Users of 0.6.7, | |
| please update ASAP! | |
| * Fix broken parsing of static hosts file | |
| * Improve out-of-the-box Debian support | |
| * Add configuration option to allow mDNS over POINTOPOINT links. | |
| This is a potential security hole and YMMV. See man page for details. | |
| * Create $(localstatedir)/run on installation | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7. | |
| Avahi 0.6.7 | |
| =========== | |
| This release fixes some bugs and adds a few new features | |
| * Add static hosts name mappings | |
| * Work around kernel bugs regarding multicast group membership | |
| * ia64 portability fixes | |
| * Don't require X11 to run avahi-bookmarks | |
| * API: Return AVAHI_ERR_IS_EMPTY when the user tries to commit an | |
| empty entry group. | |
| * Improved Slackware and Fedora suppport | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5 and 0.6.6. | |
| Avahi 0.6.6 | |
| =========== | |
| This release fixes some bugs and includes some documentation updates | |
| * Add a bunch of new types to the service type database | |
| * Return errors of avahi_entry_group_commit() properly | |
| * Many doxygen documentation improvements | |
| * Fix destruction of AvahiEntryGroup objects using | |
| avahi_entry_group_free(). | |
| * Don't allow commiting of empty entry groups | |
| * Use a little less memory in avahi-qt | |
| * Don't accept empty TXT strings | |
| * Update example "client-publish-service.c" to show how to modify an | |
| existing service | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and 0.6.5. | |
| Avahi 0.6.5 | |
| =========== | |
| This release fixes some bugs and adds a new API function. | |
| * avahi-browse: properly show services that are removed from the | |
| network | |
| * fix build on bi-arch platforms, on GNU/kFreeBSD, on MIPS and | |
| for non-DBUS builds | |
| * add new API function avahi_nss_support() and DBUS function | |
| IsNSSSupportAvailable() which may be used to detect whether | |
| libc's gethostbyname() supports mDNS domain names. | |
| * patch avahi-bookmarks to make use of | |
| IsNSSSupportAvailable(). avahi-bookmarks will now generate links | |
| with real hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses if mDNS support | |
| is detected for gethostbyname(). | |
| * add init script for Mandriva Linux | |
| * speed up avahi_client_free() | |
| * man page updates | |
| * install missing header thread-watch.h | |
| * fix avahi-bookmarks to work with certain twisted versions | |
| * fix record updating | |
| * Use pkg-config's Requires.private directive where it makes sense | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, | |
| 0.6.3 and 0.6.4. | |
| Avahi 0.6.4 | |
| =========== | |
| This is a bugfix release and adds a new event loop implementation to | |
| avahi-common's public interface. | |
| * avahi-common: add new AvahiThreadedPool event loop implementation | |
| * avahi-sharp: compatibility with newer mono versions | |
| * avahi-publish-service: don't ignore the port number specified | |
| * avahi-sharp: correct some flags definitions | |
| This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2 and | |
| 0.6.3. | |
| A quick introduction how to use the new AvahiThreadedPool interface is | |
| available in our Wiki: | |
| http://avahi.org/wiki/RunningAvahiClientAsThread | |
| Avahi 0.6.3 | |
| =========== | |
| This is a bugfix release. Everyone should update ASAP! | |
| * avahi-sharp: make sure to append a trailing NUL byte to all C strings | |
| * avahi-core: fix a double free() which occurs when wide area lookups timeout | |
| This release is fully compatible with Avahi 0.6, 0.6.1 and 0.6.2. | |
| Avahi 0.6.2 | |
| =========== | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release. | |
| * Compatibility with DBUS 0.60 (Full compatibility with DBUS 0.3x and | |
| 0.5 is retained) | |
| * Fix introspection for some auxiliary DBUS objects | |
| * Miscellaneous documentation updates | |
| * Improve Autoconf support for detecting PTHREADS library | |
| * Fix avahi-publish --help | |
| * Workaround a DBUS limitation which might cause Avahi to die when a | |
| user sends an empty TXT entry over DBUS | |
| * Increase number of resolver/browser objects a DBUS client may create | |
| * Remove fprintf() call in avahi_client_new() | |
| * Other minor fixes | |
| This release is both up and downwards compatible with Avahi 0.6 and 0.6.1. | |
| Avahi now has its own Domain (http://avahi.org) and a new Website! | |
| And, most importantly, we now have a Logo: | |
| http://avahi.org/chrome/site/avahi-trac.png | |
| Avahi 0.6.1 | |
| =========== | |
| This is mostly a bugfix release. | |
| * Fix a segfault when shutting down the daemon. Please note that this | |
| issue was not security sensitive in any way but had the ugly side | |
| effect that the daemon's PID file was not removed properly. | |
| * Added init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD | |
| * Add DBUS API versioning through the new method GetAPIVersion() | |
| * Build the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so", instead of | |
| "libavahi-compat-howl.so". This will help distributors to ensure | |
| full API/ABI compatibility with HOWL out-of-the-box. | |
| * Same for the Bonjour compatibility library | |
| * Other fixes | |
| We encourage Linux users to update to libdaemon 0.10 since logging | |
| does not work from a chroot() environment with older versions. | |
| This release is fully API and ABI compatible with Avahi 0.6. This is | |
| true for both the C libraries and the DBUS interface. | |
| Packagers should read the new documentation file doc/COMPAT-LAYERS | |
| which contains some information about maintaining full build system | |
| compatibility in addition to ABI/API compatibility. | |
| Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release | |
| =============================== | |
| * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS) | |
| * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD | |
| * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs | |
| * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs | |
| * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records | |
| * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes | |
| * Native C implementations of the client utilities | |
| * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions | |
| * "Passive observation of failures" | |
| * chroot() support | |
| * Many traffic reduction improvements | |
| * Bugfixes, cleanups | |
| This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see | |
| docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes. | |
| Avahi 0.5.2 | |
| =========== | |
| * Bug fix release. | |
| * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken) | |
| * Minor documentation update. | |
| Avahi 0.5.1 | |
| =========== | |
| * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6 | |
| * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error | |
| * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups | |
| * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group | |
| Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release | |
| ================================ | |
| * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from | |
| any CLI language such as C# | |
| * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address | |
| * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us | |
| to reliably determine if a service is the same as another. | |
| * Add API to determine if services are local | |
| * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll | |
| * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in | |
| other languages | |
| * Various build and run-time bug fixes | |
| Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release | |
| ===================================== | |
| * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the | |
| version number, as they may diverge in future. | |
| * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface | |
| with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which | |
| caused avahi-daemon to abort. | |
| * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database. | |
| * Add support for SUSE | |
| * Various fixes to the build system | |
| Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release | |
| ==================================== | |
| * New integration library for QT main-loop applications. | |
| * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd | |
| * Documentation Updates | |
| * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK | |
| * avahi-bookmarks | |
| - Add new help option | |
| - Fix handling of paths not starting with a / | |
| - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to | |
| - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs | |
| Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release | |
| ==================================== | |
| * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client | |
| with the following function removals | |
| Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API | |
| - avahi_service_resolver_block() | |
| The following functions were simply for debugging information | |
| and their removal should not affect anyone | |
| - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path() | |
| - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path() | |
| - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path() | |
| - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path() | |
| Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS | |
| API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions | |
| have changed. | |
| * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope | |
| unless it is the only IP address on the interface. | |
| * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not | |
| available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn) | |
| * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core. | |
| * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications | |
| * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList | |
| avahi_string_list_find() | |
| avahi_string_list_get_pair() | |
| avahi_string_list_add_pair() | |
| avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary() | |
| * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using | |
| the GLIB api from compiling correctly | |
| * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a | |
| state of constantly flooding queries out to the network. | |
| * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API | |
| * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses | |
| in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1 | |
| * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions. | |
| * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions | |
| * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient | |
| or use it in an application already using D-BUS | |
| * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records | |
| * Added a new service type description database with human | |
| understandable descriptions of services with translations. | |
| * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs | |
| * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict | |
| if the process or machine has been suspended | |
| * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions | |
| * ... | |
| * PROFIT!!! | |
| Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release | |
| ================================== | |
| The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of | |
| Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag". | |
| Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. | |
| It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts | |
| running on a local network with no specific configuration. For | |
| example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to | |
| print to, files to look at and people to talk to. | |
| Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification | |
| and boasts the following features | |
| * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL | |
| * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support | |
| * An embeddable mDNS stack | |
| * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration | |
| * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications | |
| * C library to interface with the DBUS API | |
| * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as | |
| Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous) | |
| * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments | |
| * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published | |
| information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6 | |
| which has no other mechanism for this. | |
| * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as | |
| 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server. | |
| http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ | |
| * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications. | |
| * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities. | |
| mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy | |
| configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf" | |
| (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into | |
| a network and instantly be able to interact with its services. | |
| Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is | |
| available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD | |
| specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many | |
| platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions. | |
| While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and | |
| available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi | |
| client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their | |
| programs. | |
| We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone | |
| could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think | |
| you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by | |
| emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st. | |
| If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe | |
| to our mailinglist, goto | |
| http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi | |
| You can download Avahi 0.1 here | |
| http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz | |
| You can also find out more information from our homepage | |
| http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi | |
| We would like to thank the following people for their | |
| contribution to Avahi 0.1. | |
| Lennart Poeterring | |
| Trent Lloyd | |
| Sebastien Estienne | |
| Ross Burton | |
| Tommi Vainikainen | |
| Joe Shaw | |
| Ikke | |
| Steev | |
| Cheers, | |
| The Avahi Team |