Maintenance Blog

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.38 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has

• has improved robustness of address parsing in Mailbox.pm
• has improved testing using the new t/TestToolkit.pm module
• has refactored socket code and control structure in Nameserver.pm
• and many more code-improvements and bug and documentation fixes.

This candidate deprecates

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

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Monday the 8th of May 2023.

See also the Changes.

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