Avahi 0.6.13 released

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/avahi-0.6.13.html

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I am happy to bring you yet another release of Avahi, everyone’s favourite Zeroconf stack.

  • Add a new D-Bus method for changing the mDNS host name during
    runtime. This functionality is only available to members of the
    UNIX group “netdev”, which is the same access group that is
    enforced by GNOME’s NetworkManager daemon. Since NM will probably
    be the most prominent user of this new method, we decided to limit
    access to the same group. The access group can be set by passing
    –with-avahi-priv-access-group= to “configure”. If you need more
    sophisticated access control you can freely edit
    /etc/dbus/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf.
  • Add a new utility “avahi-set-host-name” which is a command line
    wrapper around the aforementioned SetHostName() method.
  • Bonjour API compatibility library:
    • Implement DNSServiceUpdateRecord()
    • Allow passing NULL as callback function for DNSServiceRegister()
    • Implement subtype registration in DNSServiceRegister() in a
      way that is compatible with Bonjour.
    • Update to newer copy of dns_sd.h
  • If the host name changes update names of static services wich
    contain wildcards.
  • Don’t build documentation about embedding the Avahi mDNS stack into
    other programs by default. This is a feature used only by embedded
    developers. Pass –enable-core-docs to “configure” to enable
    building these docs, like in Avahi <= 0.6.12.
  • Build Qt documentation only when Qt support is enabled in
    the configuration. Same for GLib.
  • Change algorithm used to find a new host name on conflict. In
    Avahi <= 0.6.12 a conflicting host name of “foobar” would be
    changed to the new name “foobar2”. With 0.6.13 “foobar-2” will be
    picked instead. This follows Bonjour’s behaviour and has the
    advantage not confusing people with regular host names ending in
    digits.
  • Don’t disable all static services when SIGHUP is recieved.
  • Fix build when Avahi is configured without Gtk+ but with Python
    support
  • Fix build on MacOS X
  • Support using Solaris DBM instead of gdbm for the service type
    database. The latter is still recommended
  • Minor other fixes and documentation updates

The relevant NetworkManager bug about SetHostName() is #352828.

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