Maintenance Blog

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the 1.49 release of Net::DNS.

This release has

• Support for the new DSYNC resource record
• Support for the new ZONEVERSION EDNS(0) option
• A way to make values of SvcParameters more usable in user programs (See RT#157043)
• An API change to align the structures returned by EDNS options with their JSON description (See RT#157195)
• A bugfix to also provide the SOA in the authority section for NODATA responoses from Net::DNS::Nameserver (See RT#157669)
• A fix to gracefully handle TCP connection errors (See RT#157700)

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.49 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has

• Support for the new DSYNC resource record
• Support for the new ZONEVERSION EDNS(0) option
• A way to make values of SvcParameters more usable in user programs (See RT#157043)
• An API change to align the structures returned by EDNS options with their JSON description (See RT#157195)
• A bugfix to also provide the SOA in the authority section for NODATA responoses from Net::DNS::Nameserver (See RT#157669)
• A fix to gracefully handle TCP connection errors (See RT#157700)

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Friday the 27th of December 2024.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce Net::DNS 1.46.

This release has updated IANA DNS Parameters and general code improvements with respect to Packet IDs administration and Resolver class organization.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce Net::DNS 1.45.

This release has

• Updated IANA DNS Parameters, DNSSEC Algorithm Numbers and DS Digest Algorithms registry (to include SM, see draft-cuiling-dnsop-sm2-alg)
• Support for EDNS “Compact Answers OK” (CO) flag, part of draft-ietf-dnsop-compact-denial-of-existence and
• A fix for some OS specific portions of Net::DNS::Resolver to not create a $ENV{PATH} key if one didn’t exist (see RT#152756)

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.45 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has

• Updated IANA DNS Parameters, DNSSEC Algorithm Numbers and DS Digest Algorithms registry (to include SM, see draft-cuiling-dnsop-sm2-alg)
• Support for EDNS “Compact Answers OK” (CO) flag, part of draft-ietf-dnsop-compact-denial-of-existence and
• A fix for some OS specific portions of Net::DNS::Resolver to not create a $ENV{PATH} key if one didn’t exist (see RT#152756)

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Wednesday the 1st of May 2024.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

I am pleased to release Net::DNS 1.43.

This release has

• Updated b.root-servers.net addresses in resolver hints.
• Improved accuracy and completeness of dependency metadata.
• Remaining support for GOST removed
• An update on IPSECKEY where the gateway is left undefined for gatetype 0
• Updated work on the fix for the hang on persistent TCP connections in Windows (see RT#150695)
• A fix for Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse to prevent deep recursion on upward referrals (see RT#151074)
• A fix for Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse to use all NS records from referrals, even if they did not have glue addresses (see RT#151075)
• And a few more last minute fixes (see Changes for the details).

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.43 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has

• Updated b.root-servers.net addresses in resolver hints.
• Improved accuracy and completeness of dependency metadata.
• Remaining support for GOST removed
• An update on IPSECKEY where the gateway is left undefined for gatetype 0
• Updated work on the fix for the hang on persistent TCP connections in Windows (see RT#150695)
• A fix for Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse to prevent deep recursion on upward referrals (see RT#151074)
• A fix for Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse to use all NS records from referrals, even if they did not have glue addresses (see RT#151075)

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Friday the 26th of January 2024.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce Net::DNS 1.40.

This release has

• a fix for an infinite recursion bug when trying to resolve the address of a name server (see RT#149280)
• a fix for a bug in the SOA RDATA parser which failed to allow an undefined serial number (see RT#149456)
• support for SVCB dohpath and ohttp parameters
• a more robust test of bgbusy() SpamAssassin workaround
• and various other code-improvements.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.40 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has

• a fix for an infinite recursion bug when trying to resolve the address of a name server (see RT#149280)
• a fix for a bug in the SOA RDATA parser which failed to allow an undefined serial number (see RT#149456)
• support for SVCB dohpath and ohttp parameters
• a more robust test of bgbusy() SpamAssassin workaround
• and various other code-improvements.

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Wednesday the 30th of August 2023.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce Net::DNS 1.38.

This release has

• a fix for incorrectly extracting the extended rcode from EDNS (a bug since 1.36)
• masking out the highest bit of a CLASS value with Net::DNS::Parameters::classbyval in support of MDNS
• improved robustness of address parsing in Mailbox.pm
• improved testing using the new t/TestToolkit.pm module
• refactored socket code and control structure in Nameserver.pm
• and many more code-improvements and bug and documentation fixes.

This release deprecates

• the packet->edns->size() method (replaced by packet->edns->UDPsize()).
• the rdatastr() method for Resource Record modules replaced with rdstring())

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression