Maintenance Blog

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.

We have a candidate for the upcoming 0.75 release of Net::DNS.
This is mostly a bug fixes release. Besides bug fixes, this release also enables TSIG verified zone transfers.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 7th of May 2014.

I am pleased to announce version 0.74 of Net::DNS.

In this release a pressing bug introduced in the 0.73 release is resolved.  This bug caused the algorithm name of TSIG RR’s to be non-standard rendering TSIG support dysfunctional.

Besides bugfixes, this release also includes the CAA, EUI48 and EUI64 RR types.
Also operation with older versions of perl has been improved.

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

It has come to our attention that the previous release candidate was not working at all any more on older versions of perl < 5.6.  Also a taint preservation issue with perl versions 5.8.x was noticed.

To resolve, minor modifications to the previous release candidate have been made.  We believe those modifications are safe and don’t change any behaviour (except the beneficial ones).

However, I do not want to release without opportunity for review from the community.  Please review this update carefully.  Because of the little changes and the pressing TSIG issue, the actual release will now follow Thursday the 14th of January 2014.

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

We have a candidate for the upcoming 0.74 release of Net::DNS.
In this release a pressing bug introduced in the 0.73 release is resolved. This bug caused the algorithm name of TSIG RR’s to be non-standard rendering TSIG support dysfunctional.
Besides bugfixes, this release also includes the CAA, EUI48 and EUI64 RR types.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 10th of January 2014.

I am pleased to announce version 0.73 of Net::DNS.
This is primarily a bugfix release.
Besides bugfixes, the most prominent enhancements are:

• TSIG validation support
• TSIG support for HMAC-SHA1 .. HMAC-SHA512

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

I am pleased to announce version 0.17 of Net::DNS::SEC.
This is primarily a bugfix release.
Besides bugfixes, the most prominent enhancements is:

• Validation of wildcard RR sets

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

We have a candidate for the upcoming 0.73 release of Net::DNS.
Besides bugfixes, the most prominent enhancements are:

• TSIG validation support
• TSIG support for HMAC-SHA1 .. HMAC-SHA512

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

We have done our utmost best to remain completely backwards compatible. Please review this version carefully and regression-test it with your software. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 29th of November 2013.

We have a candidate for the upcoming 0.17 release of Net::DNS::SEC.
Besides a few bugfixes, the most prominent enhancements is:

• Validation of wildcard RR sets

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

We have done our utmost best to remain completely backwards compatible.  Please review this version carefully and regression-test it with your software.  If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 29th of November 2013.

I am pleased to announce version 0.72 of Net::DNS.

This is a minor bugfix release. It resolves some issues with TSIG
introduced since the 0.69 release. For details see the CHANGES file.