Maintenance Blog

We have a candidate for the upcoming bugfix release 0.81 of Net::DNS.

This release addresses several bugs found in the last month, not least because of the review and assessment of tlhackque. Thank you tlhackque.

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

Because no platform or version sensitive changes will be in this release, we consider it safe to shorten the release cycle a little. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Wednesday the 29th of October 2014.

We have a new Net::DNS::SEC release: 0.21.

This is again a single bugfix release, rt.cpan.org #99250, that restores canonicalization of a RRSIG’s Signer Name before performing validation.

Besides this fix, this release also corrects a few declaration with statement modifier occasions, as pointed out in rt.cpan.org #99527.

Package maintainers beware! Net::DNS::SEC::Private has always had an implicit dependency on Crypt::OpenSSL::Random. This dependency has been made explicit in this release; both in the use statements in Private.pm as in the PREREQ_PM list in Makefile.PL. Private.pm will no longer load if Crypt::OpenSSL::Random is not available.

Because of the smallness, but importance, of the change we consider it safe and acceptable to shorten the release cycle and do a full release immediately.

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

I am pleased to announce version 0.80 of Net::DNS.

In this release a single bug is fixed; The “Too late to run INIT block …” warnings that appeared when “requiring” Net::DNS, instead of “using”, are once again suppressed. The INIT block has no effect on Net::DNS operation and is only necessary for Net::DNS::SEC test scripts.

Besides this bug fix, Net::DNS::Resolver can now be forced to use IPv6 only with the force_v6 method.

Also documentation of Net::DNS::Resolver has been tidied, improved and complemented with missing subjects.

To make cygwin installations more predictable and robust, Win32::IPHelper support for cygwin has been removed. Resolver objects are now based on the cygwin specific base class always.

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

We have a candidate for the upcoming single-bugfix release 0.80 of Net::DNS.

With this release the “Too late to run INIT block …” warnings that appear when “requiring” Net::DNS, instead of “using”, are once again suppressed. The INIT block has no effect on Net::DNS operation and is only necessary for Net::DNS::SEC test scripts.

Besides this bugfix, Net::DNS::Resolver can now besides being forced to use IPv4 only, also be forced to use IPv6 only with the force_v6 method. Also documentation of Net::DNS::Resolver has been tidied.

To make cygwin installations more predictable and robust, Win32::IPHelper support for cygwin has been removed.  Resolver objects are now based on the cygwin specific base class always.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 22th of September 2014.

I am pleased to announce version 0.79 of Net::DNS.

This is a bugfix release.

Besides bugfixes this release introduces a resolver class for the android OS.

Also an implementation of the draft OPENPGPKEY RR is within this release. Beware that the specification for this RR is still draft and is subject to change. The behaviour and/or interface of this implementation may also change. Use for experimentation only!

Also, the recursive resolver Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse has received a complete rework to make it a) always terminate, b) work properly and c) not make too many unnecessary requests. It now also provides recursive resolving through the conventional query, search and send methods.

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

We have a candidate for the upcoming bugfix release 0.79 of Net::DNS.

This is a bugfix release. Besides bug fixes this release introduces the OPENPGPKEY RR.

Also, the recursive resolver Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse has received a complete rework to make it a) always terminate, b) work properly and c) not make too many unnecessary requests. It now also provides recursive resolving through the conventional query, search and send methods, enabling drop in replacement of Net::DNS::Resolver objects.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Friday the 22th of August 2014.

I am pleased to announce version 0.20 of Net::DNS::SEC.

This release has only a single bugfix, rt.cpan.org #97457, which reestablished parsing of ‘-‘ salt fields in NSEC3 presentation format representing zero salt.

Because of the smallness of the change (only one and a half lines of code) we consider it safe and acceptable shorten the release cycle and do a full release immediately.

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

I am pleased to announce version 0.78 of Net::DNS.

This is primarily a bugfix release.
Besides bug fixes this release has multi line printing of TXT rdata.
For a complete list see the CHANGES file.

We have a candidate for the upcoming bugfix release 0.78 of Net::DNS.

This is mostly a bugfix release. Besides bug fixes this release has multiline printing of TXT rdata.

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

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

I am pleased to announce version 0.77 of Net::DNS.

This release is primarily concerned with fixing some regressions that have arisen since the 0.75 and 0.76 release. It has the axfr_start and axfr_next functions of Net::DNS::Resolver restored.

Net::DNS::Resolver::axfr in scalar context now returns an iterator interface to provide gradual reception with zone transfers.

Also processing of resolver configuration directives has been improved to be more robust, sensible and secure. An initial instantiation will set the class defaults always, so that subsequent instantiations – without explicit config_file argument or other overrides – will use those defaults and will not start processing environment variables or insecure locations for config files.

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