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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.

We have a candidate for the upcoming quickfix release 0.77 of Net::DNS.

In the upcoming release the former Net::DNS::Resolver documented API functions axfr_start and axfr_next, that had been removed, are recovered. As an alternative to those functions the axfr() function now also offers an iterator interface to provide gradual reception with zone transfers.

Also some regressions that have arisen after the 0.75 and 0.76 release are fixed.

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

If no issues arise, the actual release will follow the 11th of June 2014.

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

In the previous release, the previously documented API function Net::DNS::RR::DNSKEY::is_sep printed a message stating the function is deprecated. This release has printing of this warning removed.

Also classes for the CDS and CDNSKEY are introduced to facilitate experimentation with automated DNSSEC delegation trust maintenance (see draft-ietf-dnsop-delegation-trust-maintainance).

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.