Unless we find any major bugs Avahi (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi) 0.6 will be released on friday. We ask everyone to do some testing for us:

• Current Avahi SVN snapshort (http://0pointer.de/public/avahi-snapshot.tar.gz)

• Current libdaemon SVN snapshot (http://0pointer.de/public/libdaemon-snapshot.tar.gz)

There have been a bunch of API changes (http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/checkout/trunk/docs/API-CHANGES-0.6). However, the API is now frozen, so feel free to start porting your application to the new API now.

A rough overview about the many improvements in Avahi 0.6.

• Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)

• Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD

• Compatibility layers for HOWL and Bonjour

• Support for registering/browsing abritrary records

• Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes

• Native C implementations of the client utilities

• Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions

• “Passive observation of failures”

• chroot() support

• Many traffic reduction improvements

• Bugfixes, cleanups