Milestone Avahi 0.6.5

Completed 3 years ago (01/23/06 00:00:00)

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.

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