From a042233288a73cc96b05a4c513be357b569f8deb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trent Lloyd Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:08:06 +0000 Subject: * Add old 0.1 release announcement to the bottom of docs/NEWS git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@481 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe --- docs/NEWS | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index 5e663cb..209788a 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -51,3 +51,80 @@ Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions * ... * PROFIT!!! + +Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release +================================== + +The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of +Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag". + +Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. +It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts +running on a local network with no specific configuration. For +example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to +print to, files to look at and people to talk to. + +Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification +and boasts the following features + + * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL + * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support + * An embeddable mDNS stack + * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration + * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications + * C library to interface with the DBUS API + * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as + Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous) + * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments + * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published + information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6 + which has no other mechanism for this. + * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as + 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server. + http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ + * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications. + * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities. + +mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy +configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf" +(http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into +a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services. + +Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is +available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD +specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many +platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions. + +While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and +available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi +client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their +programs. + +We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone +could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think +you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by +emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st. + +If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe +to our mailinglist, goto + http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi + +You can download Avahi 0.1 here + http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz + +You can also find out more information from our homepage + http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi + +We would like to thank the following people for their +contribution to Avahi 0.1. + Lennart Poeterring + Trent Lloyd + Sebastien Estienne + Ross Burton + Tommi Vainikainen + Joe Shaw + Ikke + Steev + +Cheers, +The Avahi Team -- cgit