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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 Apple 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.

More information

News

February 2007

January 2007

  • 2007-01-01: We have released  nss-mdns 0.9! This is a bugfix release and an update is strongly recommended!

December 2006

  • 2006-12-29: We have released Avahi 0.6.16! This is a bugfix release, it fixes one security sensitive bug (100% CPU DoS;  CVE-2006-6870) and 1 regression from the last release. (Change Log) All users are recommended to upgrade ASAP, especially given the DoS and regression which can often cause Avahi not to work correctly.

November 2006

  • 2006-11-06: We have released Avahi 0.6.15! This is a bugfix release which fixes one security sensitive bug, all users are recommended to upgrade ASAP. (Change Log,  CVE-2006-5461) Distributors wishing to update their stable release can use the following  patch

October 2006

  • 2006-10-20: Two Avahi developers (Trent 'Lathiat' Lloyd and Lennart Poettering) will be attending  linux.conf.au 2007 in Sydney, Australia (January 15th-20th 2007) - so if you plan on attending, be sure to say hi and let us know if you want any interactive help adding Avahi support to your applications! In addition, we may (yet unconfirmed) be presenting a paper on Avahi at  GNOME.conf.au which is part of greater conference.

September 2006

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