Maintenance Blog

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.03 bugfix/feature release of Net::DNS.

This release addresses several very long outstanding bugs. The oldest TCP support for bgsend which was submitted in 2005.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 7th of September 2015.

We have just released version 1.02 of Net::DNS.

This is a bugfix release. Most prominent fix is the corrected handling handling of delegations containing empty-non-terminals with Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse. Also the dependency on the MIME::Base32 distribution is removed to accommodate windows installations.

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

Also a new version (1.02) of Net::DNS::SEC is released with a bugfix that deals with an exception raised in a Net::DNS unit test (t/10-keyset.t).

Dear all,

We publish candidates for releases and ask you to try them out to receive feedback on possible issues that we might have missed and have an opportunity to correct them before the actual release.

Besides your feedback, release candidates are also published as developer releases (through PAUSE) so they get tested on a wide range of different platforms by the CPAN testers.

Unfortunately their test-report collecting and processing site has been down now (since August 30). This time we did not receive feedback from the developer release. We have seen one fail (besides passes) in the CPAN testers log tail though.

Furthermore, developer releases are also processed by cpancover.org which provides coverage details of the unit tests. The reports for our recent developer releases show too few covered files, suggesting that the unit tests somehow stopped halfway. It might just as well have another cause, but we don’t know.

These things combined have made us decide to delay the release for one more week. By then we hope to have our usual CPAN testers feedback, or have more insight in what the issue may be.

So, if all is well, the actual release of Net::DNS 1.02 will follow Tuesday the 14th of September 2015. Find our latest develop release/release candidate below.

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.02 bugfix release of Net::DNS.

This release addresses a single bug with Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse in handling delegations containing empty-non-terminals.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 7th of September 2015.

Dear all,

We have just released version 1.01 of Net::DNS::SEC.

This is the companion distribution for Net::DNS 1.01. Since Net::DNS 1.01, all RRs related to DNSSEC have been migrated to Net::DNS. This distribution is now only needed to perform cryptographic operations: i.e. signature generation and verification.

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

Dear all,

We have a release candidate for the upcoming 1.01 release of Net::DNS::SEC.

This is the companion distribution for Net::DNS 1.01. Since Net::DNS 1.01, all RRs related to DNSSEC have been migrated to Net::DNS. This distribution is now only needed to perform cryptographic operations: i.e. signature generation and verification.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 3th of August 2015.

I am very pleased to announce that we have just released version 1.01 of Net::DNS.

This is the first major release of Net::DNS since Michael Fuhr started this project in 1997. Since then many people have contributed to the Net::DNS project and shaped it into the distribution it is now. A very incomplete list of authors (from the Copyright sections of the modules) is: Rob Brown, Andreas Gustafsson, Olaf Kolkman, Sidney Markowitz, Robert Martin-Legene, Chris Reinhardt, Mike Schiraldi, and Andrew Tridgell. Thank you all, and also all the unmentioned people for contributing to, developing on and maintaining Net::DNS!

I took over maintenance of the distribution at NLnet Labs from Olaf Kolkman in 2012. Since then Dick Franks, who was always a prominent contributor has become the primary developer of the distribution.

In late 2012 a major architectural rework commenced, initially to support IDN, but later also to cleanup and to turn Net::DNS in an even more robust and readable code base with a clear and unambiguous interface. We have made this a major release because we consider this architectural rework and cleanup now stable and finished.

This release has the RRs integrated that were previously only available with Net::DNS::SEC, however without the signature generation and verification functions. To enable those functions Net::DNS::SEC still needs to be installed.

As part of the process, the whole of Net::DNS has been brought under the MIT license already used by Net::DNS::SEC. We requested and have received agreement and permission from all the principal authors to apply this license to their respective modules.

Besides the incorporation of the Net::DNS::SEC RRs, this release contains bug fixes and updates with current DNS parameters as usual. For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.

I am pleased to announce a release candidate for the upcoming 1.01 release of Net::DNS.

This is a candidate for the version with which we consider the architectural rework and cleanup, that has started late 2012, to be stable and finished.

This release has the RRs integrated that were previously only available with Net::DNS::SEC, however without the signature generation and verification functions. To enable those functions Net::DNS::SEC still needs to be installed.

As part of the process, the whole of Net::DNS has been brought under the MIT license already used by Net::DNS::SEC. We requested and have received agreement and permission from all the principal authors to apply this license to their respective modules.

Besides the incorporation of the Net::DNS::SEC RRs, this release contains bug fixes and updates with current DNS parameters as usual. For a complete list of changes and bugfixes see the CHANGES file.

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 6th of July 2015.

We have just released version 0.83 of Net::DNS.

This release has (almost) only bug fixes and is intended to establish a clean baseline in preparation for the merge of the RRs that are currently only in Net::DNS::SEC. Note that for actual cryptographic operations Net::DNS::SEC will still be required.

Besides the bug fixes, in anticipating of the Net::DNS::SEC RRs rehousing, this release already has the new CSYNC RR from the draft-ietf-dnsop-child-syncronization on board for experimentation purposes.

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

We have a candidate for the upcoming bugfix release 0.83 of Net::DNS.

As discussed on the net-dns-users mailing list and also announced with the previous Net::DNS::SEC release, we are planning to merge the DNSSEC RR’s that are currently in the Net::DNS::SEC module (DS, DNSKEY, RRSIG etc.) into Net::DNS, though without the cryptographic operations. For the cryptographic operations (signing, verifying etc.), Net::DNS::SEC will still be required.

This release is intended to establish a clean Net::DNS baseline, before we start moving the RR’s over.

In anticipating of this move, this release already has the new CSYNC RR from the draft-ietf-dnsop-child-syncronization on board for experimentation purposes.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Thursday the 26th of February 2015.