Maintenance Blog

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the fast track release of Net::DNS 1.15.

This release has no bugs resolved nor any new features. Besides some minor code maintenance, this release only adds a Change notice to formalize the retirement of the GOST R 34.11-94 hash algorithm. However, the GOST algorithm will still work when a functional Digest::GOST module is present.

See also the Changes file.

Actual release will follow Friday 9 February 2018.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.14 release of Net::DNS.

This release resolves an issue with inaccessibility of (sub)packages from .pm files containing more than one packages, due to changed file permissions caused by dropped or changed user permissions by a program.

Besides this issue, this release also expresses more clearly that the Net::DNS::Nameserver module is not, nor will ever be, a general-purpose DNS nameserver implementation.

Functionality of Net::DNS::Nameserver has been extended to have a default ReplyHandler that will serve a zone given with a ZoneFile optional argument to the constructor.

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Thursday the 14th of December 2017.

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

Dear all,

We have a new release version 1.13 of Net::DNS.

This release allows queries for internationalized domains now also on platforms with Net::LibIDN2 (besides the already existing support with Net::LibIDN).

See also the Changes file.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.13 release of Net::DNS.

This release allows queries for internationalized domains (with non-ASCII characters) now also on platforms using CPAN Net::LibIDN2 (besides the already existing support with Net::LibIDN).

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Wednesday the 18th of October 2017.

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

Dear all,

We have a new bugfix release version 1.12 of Net::DNS.

This release contains bugfixes for:

• An issue with false timeouts reported with persistent UDP, and
• an issue with stalling TCP retries with IO::Socket::IP versions before. 0.38

This release also incorporates the printing and parsing of CDS and CDNSKEY as specified by erratum 5049 for RFC8078.

This release will emit a preliminary warning at build time about our intention to drop support for IO::Socket::INET6 in favour of the IO::Socket::IP module. When or how or even whether this will happen is still to be determined. Feedback and suggestions on this are welcomed.

See also the Changes file.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.12 fast-track bugfix release of Net::DNS.

This release contains bugfixes for:

• An issue with false timeouts reported with persistent UDP, and
• an issue with stalling TCP retries with IO::Socket::IP versions before. 0.38

This release also incorporates the printing and parsing of CDS and CDNSKEY as specified by erratum 5049 for RFC8078.

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. We would like to do a fast-track release this time to make it for the Fedora 27 beta release. Therefore, if no issues arise, the actual release will follow Friday the 18th of August 2017.

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

Dear all,

We have a new release version 1.11 of Net::DNS.

This release contains mostly maintenance work, which involved among other things:

• A Net::DNS::Resolver class for OS/390 MVS
• Work on configuration of Net::DNS::Resolver objects:
  • prefer_v4/prefer_v6 is no longer a binary choice. Expressing no preference leaves nameservers in the order stated
  • Parsing and adhering to ndots option
• A workaround for strict hashpairs with cperl >= 5.27
• Zeroed waiting period with bgbusy(), and
• The ability to send UDP queries with EDNS bufsize set to 512

See also the Changes file.

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

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.11 release of Net::DNS.

This release contains mostly maintenance work, which involved among other things:

• A Net::DNS::Resolver class for OS/390 MVS
• Work on configuration of Net::DNS::Resolver objects:
  • prefer_v4/prefer_v6 is no longer a binary choice. Expressing no preference leaves nameservers in the order stated
  • Parsing and adhering to ndots option
• A workaround for strict hashpairs with cperl >= 5.27 and
• Zeroed waiting period with bgbusy()

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 26th of June 2017.

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

Dear all,

We have a new bugfix release version 1.10 of Net::DNS.

In this release a multitude of bugs with resolving on Cygwin and MSWin32 environments have been fixed. Also support for systems with the EBCDIC character encoding has been updated.

This implementation also introduces a first implementation of resolving on the IBM OS/390.

See also the Changes file.

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the new bugfix release version 1.10 of Net::DNS.

In this release a multitude of bugs with resolving on Cygwin and MSWin32 environments have been fixed. Also support for systems with the EBCDIC character encoding has been updated.

See also the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Friday the 5th of May 2017.

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