Maintenance Blog

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.

I am pleased to announce version 0.75 of Net::DNS.

Besides bug fixes, this release enables TSIG verified zone transfers.

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

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.