Maintenance Blog

Dear all,

We have candidates for the upcoming fast-track 1.25 and 1.17 releases of Net::DNS and Net::DNS::SEC.

The recommended method of generating TSIG keys changed between 1.23 and 1.24 in favour of using tsig-keygen (for named algorithms). Unfortunately this led to a backwards incompatibility issue. This release introduces more robust TSIG key parsing to deal with this.

TSIG keys generated with dnssec-keygen are still accepted for backwards compatibility, but are expected to have the ISC BIND’s keyfile naming convention, or be a symbolic link to a key using this naming convention. A warning will be generated for keys without the naming convention.

Because of the minimal changes and the resolution of a backwards compatibility issue, these release candidates will be released more quickly than usual.

Please review these candidates carefully, if no issues arise actual release will follow Friday 26th of June 2020.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Net::DNS 1.24.

This release has:

• Support for TSIG key files generated by the BIND tsig-keygen program
• A module for the new AMTRELAY resource record
• DNS Cookies à la draft-ietf-dnsop-server-cookies

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.24 release of Net::DNS, with:

• Support for TSIG key files generated by the BIND tsig-keygen program
• A module for the new AMTRELAY resource record

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Wednesday the 27th of May 2020.

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Net::DNS version 1.23.
This release has:

• Modified TSIG creation
• Bugfix with correct reporting  of the error when AXFR failed

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Net::DNS version 1.22.
This release has:

• Rudimentary decode and print for DSO packet
• Bugfix in parsing semicolons

See also the Changes.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.22 release of Net::DNS, with:

• Rudimentary decode and print for DSO packet
• Bugfix in parsing semicolons

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Thursday the 13th of February 2020.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Net::DNS version 1.21.

This release has:

• NSEC’s API updated to resemble NSEC3’s (i.e. the match(), encloser(), nextcloser() and wildcard() methods)
• Added ZONEMD package
• Removed deprecated DLV package
• Bugfix in recursion and background TCP query logic
• A few more warnings for deprecated functions (emitted only once)
• Updated IANA Parameters
• Overall improvements in codebase and test scripts

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.21 release of Net::DNS, with:

• NSEC now has the same API as NSEC3 (i.e. the match, encloser, nextcloser and wildcard methods)
• Added ZONEMD package
• Removed deprecated DLV package
• Bugfix in recursion and background TCP query logic
• Few more warnings for deprecated functions (emitted only once)
• Updated Parameters.pm
• Various improvements

Please review these candidates carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Thursday the 29th of August 2019.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce Net::DNS version 1.20

This release has:

• Reworked recursive resolving (initially to deal with a bugfix) and is now easier to understand (and maintain)
• Updated examples that use AAAA instead of A records.
• TSIG MAC representation changed to Base64 (like with dig)
• Updated IANA parameters
• Overall improvements in codebase and test scripts

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the 1.12 release of Net::DNS::SEC.

This release has simplified (and thus more robust) support for the different version of Open & LibreSSL, including a fix for the future OpenSSL 3.0.0.

See also the CHANGES file.