[avahi] Announcing Avahi 0.5 "Bom Dia"

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Wed Sep 14 11:40:43 PDT 2005


The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
Avahi 0.5 'Bom Dia'

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.

For more information about Avahi, please visit our home page
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi

Here is a list of highlights / changes in this release

 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
   any CLI language such as C#
 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
   to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
 * Add API to determine if services are local
 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
   other languages
 * Various build and run-time bug fixes

Cheers,
The Avahi Team


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