[avahi] [ANNOUNCE] Avahi 0.6.14

[Lennart Poettering]

Avahi 0.6.14
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This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component.

Changes:

  * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of
    IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning
    link-local IP addresses without DHCP server. The same
    functionality has been available on Windows under the name
    APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of this
    technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most
    powerful and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s
    and drops priviliges and suchlike) For more information,
    especially about packaging this new tool for distributions, please
    make sure to read: http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd
    and of course the man page included in the tarball.  For the
    rationale for adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read
    this mailing list thread:
    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html
  * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations
  * Add a few new entries to the service type database
  * s/D-?BUS/D-Bus/g
  * Documentation updates
  * Fix service type database building on Solaris
  * Make use of newer D-Bus APIs
  * Fix random seed initialization
  * Install SFTP static service file by default
  * Other minor code cleanups

This release is backwards compatible with Avahi 0.6.x with x < 14.

Please note that this version doesn't compile on NetBSD, patches
welcome.

Please note that avahi-autoipd is available on Linux only for
now. Patches welcome. It is recommended to pass --disable-autoipd to
"configure" on non-Linux operating systems, otherwise the build will fail.

Tarball here:

        http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.6.14.tar.gz

Homepage:

        http://avahi.org/        
        
Lennart

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