Milestone Avahi 0.6.14

Completed 2 years ago (09/13/06 23:43:04)

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avahi-daemon

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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 priviliges 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.

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