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.
* 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)
Security Fixes:
- Drop legacy unicast queries from address not on local link which can lead to
UDP traffic amplification attacks (CVE-2017-6519)
For full details, see:
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/blob/v0.8/docs/NEWS
Unsorted entries in PLIST files have generated a pkglint warning for at
least 12 years. Somewhat more recently, pkglint has learned to sort
PLIST files automatically. Since pkglint 5.4.23, the sorting is only
done in obvious, simple cases. These have been applied by running:
pkglint -Cnone,PLIST -Wnone,plist-sort -r -F
to build the avahi UI with GTK3, which is required for some packages like
libepc. Commented patches. Removed dependency on desktop.mk, as the file
doesn't have a MimeType key. Only PKG_OPTION enabled by default is gtk2.
Thus, you will notice no difference in this version and the last (unless
you start enabling options). Bump PKGREVISION. Resolves PR pkg/47483
while here, simplify package (not using patches for handling config files).
= 0.6.30
This is a bugfix release.
* Make IPv6 work again
* i18n updates
* Minor other updates
= 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
= 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
0.6.27
some build fixes
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
Changelog:
* A huge number of bug fixes, including a security relavant one (CVE-2008-5081,
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
Fix PR pkg/40281, by defining _DARWIN_C_SOURCE under darwin
then majorly reworked by myself. You can blame us both now ;)
Avahi is an Implementation the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS
specifications for Zeroconf Computing. It uses D-BUS for communication
between user applications and a system daemon. The daemon is used to
coordinate application efforts in caching replies, necessary to minimize
the traffic imposed on networks.
