Changelogs for 5.1.X

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5.1.0-rc1

Released: 25th of June 2024

Improvements

• Allow recursor.conf file to contain YAML to ease transition to YAML config.

  References: #13935, pull request 14265, pull request 14374

• Add nsName into outgoing protobuf request/response messages.

  References: pull request 14318

• Do not add UDR field to outgoingProtobuf answer messages

  References: pull request 14312

• Add options for ignoring domains for UDR purposes (Ensar Sarajčić).

  References: pull request 14275

• Make max CNAME chain length handled settable, previously fixed at 10.

  References: pull request 14309

Bug Fixes

• Don’t send double SOA record in the case of a dns64 CNAME that does not resolve.

  References: #14362, pull request 14373

• dns.cc: use pdns::views::UnsignedCharView.

  References: #14356, pull request 14359

• Fix TCP case for policy tags set by gettag(_ffi).

  References: #13021, pull request 14346

• Fix client remotes count when using proxy protocol.

  References: pull request 14340

5.1.0-beta1

Released: 6th of June 2024

Improvements

• Add a few more fields to the protobuf messages.

  References: #13020, pull request 14257

• Handle authoritative servers slow to respond when load is high better.

  References: pull request 14221, pull request 14258

• Be a bit more strict with respect to positive answers expanded from a wildcard.

  References: pull request 14206

• Extra export types for protobuf messages.

  References: pull request 14111

• Various code cleanups and Coverity prompted fixes.

  References: pull request 14259, pull request 14260, pull request 14262, pull request 14268

5.1.0-alpha1

Released: 15th of May 2024

Improvements

• Add possibility to set existing Lua config in YAML settings.

  References: pull request 13819

• Tidy iputils.hh and iputils.cc

  References: pull request 14097, pull request 14139

• Add interface (not subject to proxy protocol substitutions) addresses in Lua DNSQuestion and corresponding FFI.

  References: #13730, pull request 14023

• Add setting to exclude specific listen socket addresses from requiring proxy protocol.

  References: #13948, pull request 14018

• Use shared NOD (and/or UDR) DB, to avoid multiple copies in memory and on disk.

  References: #13677, pull request 13969

• Add feature to allow names (resolved by system resolver) in forwarding config.

  References: #11393, pull request 13921

• Enable 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems with glibc-2.34 (Sven Wegener).

  References: pull request 10933

• Remove the possibility to disable structured logging.

  References: pull request 13844

• Add structured logging backend that uses JSON representation.

  References: pull request 13842

• Tidy recursor-lua4.cc and recursor-lua4.hh.

  References: pull request 13889

• Support v6 in FrameStreamLogger, including tidy.

  References: pull request 13864

• Tidy rpzloader.cc and .hh.

  References: pull request 13861

• Log if a dnssec related limit was hit (if log_bogus is set).

  References: pull request 13824

• Tidy ResolveContext class.

  References: pull request 13746

• Tidy filterpo.?? (reaching into iputils.hh as well).

  References: pull request 13744

• Introduce command to set aggressive NSEC cache size.

  References: #13265, pull request 13504

• RPZ from primary refactor and allow notifies for RPZs

  References: #12777, pull request 13701

• Use ref wrapper instead of raw pointer in variant.

  References: pull request 13702

• Fix a few coverity reports.

  References: pull request 13706, pull request 13719

• Cleanup of code doing SNMP OID handling.

  References: pull request 13711

• Allow out-of-tree builds (Chris Hofstaedtler)

  References: pull request 13654

• Fix country()/countryCode() mixup in example Lua Record documentation (Edward Dore)

  References: pull request 13714

• MTasker cleanup and move to recursordist.

  References: pull request 13652

• Lower default max-qperq limit.

  References: #8646, pull request 13566

Bug Fixes

• Configure.ac fixup: do not require bash (Eli Schwartz)

  References: pull request 13596

• FDWrapper: Do not try to close negative file descriptors.

  References: pull request 14006

• Fixup res-system-resolve.cc on FreeBSD: resolve.h needs netinet/in.h.

  References: pull request 13985

• Don’t throttle lame servers if they are marked as dontThrottle.

  References: pull request 13919

• Fix Coverity 1534473 Unintended sign extension.

  References: pull request 13894

• Don’t enter wildcard qnames into the cache in the ZoneToCache function.

  References: pull request 13866

• Fix Coverity issues in new RPZ code.

  References: pull request 13741

• Fix a potential null deref in MTasker::schedule().

  References: pull request 13680