Changelog

[0.8] -- 2024-03-30

Added

Support for OpenBSD (tested on riscv64 with OpenBSD 7.4)
Configuration files for firewalld (#186). Thanks to Ondrej Holy.
Show device type and allow filtering in API's list command (#189). Thanks to Ondrej Holy.
Add option --metadata-timeout to set the timeout for the HTTP-based metadata exchange (closes #83)

Changed

The employed UUID is now read from /etc/{machine-id,hostid} before falling by back to the UUID derivation from the host name.

Fixed

Handle addresses with zone id by ignoring the interface part (#184)
Do not crash with asyncio future error when non-existing interface is provided (#201)

[0.7.1] - 2023-03-04

Added

GitHub workflow for static analyses added (syntax, format, and type checks are performed).
Added EnvironmentFile and according example for systemd-based distros.
Make wsdd work (again) on MacOS (#139). Thanks to Eugene Gershnik.
Application profile for UFW has been added (#169)

Fixed

Use of implicitly present async I/O loop instead created one for API servers. Fixes regression due to changed API in Python 3.10 (see #162)

Changed

Source code is spiced with type hints now.
man page moved to section 8.

[0.7.0] - 2021-11-20

Added

Using the server interface it is now possible to start and stop the host functionality (discoverable device) without terminating and restarting the daemon.

Fixed

Support multiple IP addresses in 'hello' messages from other hosts (#89)
Support interfaces with IPv6-only configuration (#94)
Re-enable 'probe' command of API (#116)
Removed code marked as deprecated starting with Python 3.10.

Changed

The example systemd unit file now uses DynamicUser instead of the unsafe nobody:nobody combination. It also employs the rundir as chroot directory.
Code changed to use asyncio instead of selector-based
The server interface does not close connections after each command anymore.
For the 'list' command of the server interface, the list of discovered devices is terminated with a line containing only a single dot ('.')
Log device discovery only once per address and interface

[0.6.4] - 2021-02-06

Added

Introduce -v/--version command line switch to show program version.

Fixed

HTTP status code 404 is sent in case of an non-existing path (#79).
Data is now sent correctly again on FreeBSD as well as on Linux (#80).

Changed

Send HTTP 400 in case of wrong content type.

[0.6.3] - 2021-01-10

Added

Include instructions for adding repository keys under Debian/Ubuntu in README.

Fixed

Skip Netlink messages smaller than 4 bytes correctly (#77, and maybe #59)
Messages are sent via the correct socket to comply with the intended/specified message flow. This also eases the firewall configuration (#72).

[0.6.2] - 2020-10-18

Changed

Lowered priority of non-essential, protocol-related and internal log messages (#53).

Fixed

Do not use PID in Netlink sockets in order to avoid issues with duplicated PIDs, e.g., when Docker is used.
Prevent exceptions due to invalid incoming messages.
HTTP server address family wrong when interface address is added (#62)
Error when interface address is removed (#62)

[0.6.1] - 2020-06-28

Fixed

Error when unknown interface index is received from Netlink socket on Linux (#45)
HTTP requests not passed to wsdd, preventing hosts to be discovered (#49)

[0.6] - 2020-06-06

Added

Discovery mode to search for other hosts with Windows, wsdd, or compatible services
Socket-based API to query and manipulate the discovered hosts
Documentation on installation for some distros.

Changed

Addresses are not only enumerated on startup, but changes to addresses are also dynamically handled
The program does not stop anymore when no IP address is available (see Fixes as well)
Code significantly refactored

Fixed

Running at system startup without IP address does not cause wsdd to terminate anymore
Support international domain names when chrooting (#44)
Skip empty routing attribute returned from Netlink socket (#42)
Correct handling of invalid messages (#43)