Maintenance Blog

We have an emergency release of Net::DNS version 0.76.

0.75 contains a bug in the parsing of /etc/resolv.conf by Resolver objects. With this bug only the last “nameserver” line in /etc/resolv.conf is evaluated and name servers specified on earlier “nameserver” lines are discarded (See RT#95596 ). This might result in decreased availability of resolving capabilities on systems with multiple “nameserver” lines in /etc/resolv.conf as only the name servers given on the last line will be targeted. We this this is serious enough to justify an emergency release.

Besides the aforementioned bug, a few other bugfixes have been resolved.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes see the CHANGES file.

I am pleased to announce version 0.18 of Net::DNS::SEC.

Besides bug fixes all Net::DNS::SEC RR types now fully exploit the new Net::DNS architecture that has been introduced since version 0.69 of Net::DNS.

Software using the documented API and not accessing objects internal data structures should not be affected by this change.

For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.

I am pleased to announce version 0.75 of Net::DNS.

Besides bug fixes, this release enables TSIG verified zone transfers.

For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.

Dear maintainers and users of Net::DNS and Net::DNS::SEC,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 0.18 release of Net::DNS::SEC. Besides bug fixes all Net::DNS::SEC RR types now fully exploit the new Net::DNS architecture that has been introduced since version 0.69 of Net::DNS.

Because of this significant internal change, we urge you to REVIEW THIS VERSION THOROUGHLY.  Software using the documented API and not accessing objects internal data structures should not be affected by this change.

Please inform us of any problems your software has with this version so we can address it before release.   If possible, please provide a small example illustrating different behavior on 0.17_5.

For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 8th of May 2014.