Maintenance Blog

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.20 release of Net::DNS and the upcoming 1.12 release of Net::DNS::SEC.

The Net::DNS candidate has a single bugfix that addresses correctly caching IP’s for delegations in the Recurse.pm module.

Besides this bugfixes, this release has

• 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

The Net::DNS::SEC candidate contains simplified (and thus more robust) support for the different version of Open & LibreSSL, including a fix for the future OpenSSL 3.0.0.
Current thought is to support latest two LibreSSL releases.

Please review these candidates carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Tuesday the 19th of March 2019.

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

Dear all,

We have a new release version 1.19 of Net::DNS

This release two bugfixes:

• A bugfix for search() returning a NODATA packet instead of the documented undef in some situations
• A bugfix to not use global bare file handles when reading the resolver configuration file

This release also contains a new feature to show the structure of EDNS options when printing. For example:

    $packet->edns->print;

    ;; EDNS version 0
    ;;      flags:  8000
    ;;      rcode:  NOERROR
    ;;      size:   1280
    ;;      option: DAU    => ( 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 )
    ;;              DHU    => ( 1, 2, 4 )
    ;;              COOKIE => ( CLIENT-COOKIE => 7261776279746573,
    ;;                          SERVER-COOKIE =>  )

See also the Changes.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming fasttrack 1.19 release of Net::DNS.

This release two bugfixes:

• A bugfix for search() returning a NODATA packet instead of the documented undef in some situations
• A bugfix to not use global bare file handles when reading the resolver configuration file

This release also contains a new feature to show the structure of EDNS options when printing. For example:

    $packet->edns->print;

    ;; EDNS version 0
    ;;      flags:  8000
    ;;      rcode:  NOERROR
    ;;      size:   1280
    ;;      option: DAU    => ( 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 )
    ;;              DHU    => ( 1, 2, 4 )
    ;;              COOKIE => ( CLIENT-COOKIE => 7261776279746573,
    ;;                          SERVER-COOKIE =>  )

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Wednesday the 14th of November 2018.

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

Dear all,

We have new release version 1.18 of Net::DNS.

This release includes

• Updated root hints, with the new IP address for b.root-servers.net.
• A bugfix for failing Net::DNS::ZoneFile->parse() when an include directory was specified.
• A bugfix for broken resolution when /etc/resolv.conf had an ndots option.
• A change in terminology: A DNS reply is not called “answer” anymore to avoid disambiguate. This change applies to a few function names too:
  • Net::DNS::Packet::from() replaces answerfrom()
  • Net::DNS::Packet::size() replaces answersize()
  • Net::DNS::Resolver::replyfrom() replaces answerfrom().

  The old function names will remain for backwards compatibility.

• Overall improved documentation

See also the Changes file.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.18 release of Net::DNS.

This release includes

• Updated root hints, with the new IP address for b.root-servers.net.
• A bugfix for failing Net::DNS::ZoneFile->parse() when an include directory was specified.
• A bugfix for broken resolution when /etc/resolv.conf had an ndots option.
• A change in terminology: A DNS reply is not called “answer” anymore to avoid disambiguate. This change applies to a few function names too:
  • Net::DNS::Packet::from() replaces answerfrom()
  • Net::DNS::Packet::size() replaces answersize()
  • Net::DNS::Resolver::replyfrom() replaces answerfrom()

  The old function names will remain for backwards compatibility.

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Friday the 21th of September 2018.

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

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the 1.10 release of Net::DNS::SEC.

Code-coverage has been improved to including coverage of XS module.
The getkeyset demo script has been renamed and stripped of the executable bit (like the other demo scripts), to work around an issue with Redhat packaging.

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

Dear all,

We have a fast-track release candidate for the 1.10 release of Net::DNS::SEC.

Code-coverage has been improved to including coverage of XS module.
The getkeyset demo script has been renamed and stripped of the executable bit (like the other demo scripts), to work around an issue with Redhat packaging.

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

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Friday the 31st of August 2018.

Dear all,

We have a new bugfix release, version 1.17 of Net::DNS.

This release contains three bugfixes, from which two were introduced in release 1.16.

• A fix for broken name compression in rdata fields.
• A fix for undefined typemap for NSEC3s on empty non-terminals.
• A fix for AXFR for nameservers that start with a single SOA in a single packet (like PowerDNS).

See also the Changes file.

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

Dear all,

We have a fast-track release candidate for the upcoming 1.17 bugfix release of Net::DNS.

This release contains three bugfixes, from which two were introduced in release 1.16.

• A fix for broken name compression in rdata fields.
• A fix for undefined typemap for NSEC3s on empty non-terminals.
• A fix for AXFR for nameservers that start with a single SOA in a single packet (like PowerDNS).

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Wednesday the 25th of July 2018.

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

Dear all,

We have a new release version 1.16 of Net::DNS.

This release contains new and improved methods for NSEC and NSEC3 RRs to enquery about the name it covers, the types in its typemap, and in case of NSEC3 about the encloser, nextcloser and (unexpanded) wildcard.

Also, IPv6 support is from now only with the IO::Socket::IP module. Support for the IO::Socket::INET6 is removed (for which we have warned about since 1.12).

See also the Changes file.

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