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Welcome to Avahi

What is it ?

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'Zeroconf') and is very convenient. Avahi is mainly based on Lennart Poettering's flexmdns mDNS implementation for Linux which has been discontinued in favour of Avahi.

News

• 2006-01-30: We have released Avahi 0.6.6! This is mostly a bug fix release. (Change Log)
• 2006-01-30: Issue 03/06 of the German  Linux Magazin features two lengthy articles about Avahi (p.64 and p.90)
• 2006-01-23: We have released Avahi 0.6.5! This is mostly a bug fix release but contains some new APIs, too. (Change Log)
• 2006-01-22: We have released  mod_dnssd 0.3! This Apache 2.0 module improves the earlier versions of mod_dnssd, which adds Zeroconf support to Apache using Avahi.
• 2006-01-19: We have released  mod_dnssd 0.1! This Apache 2.0 module adds Zeroconf support to the popular web server using Avahi.
• 2006-01-15: We have released Avahi 0.6.4! This is mostly a bug fix release but contains some new APIs, too. (Change Log)
• 2006-01-07: We have released Avahi 0.6.3! This is an important bug fix release. Everyone should update ASAP. (Change Log)
• 2006-01-06: We have released Avahi 0.6.2! This is a bug fix release only. Avahi now has its own Domain, a new Website, and a new Logo! (Change Log)
• 2005-11-24: We have released  Avahi 0.6.1! This is a bug fix release only (Change Log)
• 2005-11-18: We have released Avahi 0.6 "Goddag"!
• 2005-10-28: Hourly snapshots of Avahi and libdaemon are now available for download in the Development section.
• 2005-10-03: We have released Avahi 0.5.2! This is a bug fix release only
• 2005-09-30: We have released Avahi 0.5.1! This is a bug fix release only
• 2005-09-14: We have released Avahi 0.5 "Bom Dia"!
• 2005-09-08: We have released Avahi 0.4 "Hyvää päivää"!
• 2005-09-03: We have released Avahi 0.3 "Buenos Días"!
• 2005-08-29: We have released Avahi 0.2 "Dzień Dobry"!
• 2005-08-25: Linux Weekly News features an  article about us
• 2005-08-22: We have released Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag"!