Changelogs for 4.9.x

4.9.0

Released: 15th of March 2024

This is release 4.9.0 of the Authoritative Server.

Please review the Upgrade Notes before upgrading from versions < 4.9.x.

4.9 contains improvements to the API, ALIAS handling, catalog zones, and some tool improvements. It also contains various bug fixes and smaller improvements, please see the list below.

New Features

• LUA dblookup: switch qtype argument to int

  References: pull request 13900

• LUA: support returning empty set in filterForward #13879

  References: pull request 13895

Improvements

• on OpenBSD, try harder to send on a non-blocking socket

  References: pull request 13901

• Docker: Only print config if debug flag is set

  References: pull request 13898

Bug Fixes

• revive remotebackend tests and fix failures

  References: pull request 13899

• do not disable ns records at apex in consumer zones

  References: pull request 13897

• catalog: include groups in hash calculation

  References: pull request 13896

4.9.0-beta2

Released: 16th of February 2024

This is release 4.9.0-beta2 of the Authoritative Server.

Please review the Upgrade Notes before upgrading from versions < 4.9.x.

4.9 contains improvements to the API, ALIAS handling, catalog zones, and some tool improvements. It also contains various bug fixes and smaller improvements, please see the list below.

New Features

• ixfrdist: add support for outgoing notify

  References: pull request 13753

• LUA records, pickchashed function

  References: pull request 13752

• Add Lua function to pick records via name hash (Brian Rak)

  References: pull request 13391

• LUA records: add dblookup function

  References: pull request 12359

• add a configurable delay for notifications

  References: pull request 13649

• Add and document a localwho() function for LUA records (Bert Hubert)

  References: pull request 13481

Improvements

• API: reject priority element in record

  References: pull request 13743

• dnsname: Optimize parsing of uncompressed labels

  References: pull request 13724

• Log port with all freshness check failure scenarios. (Sander Smeenk)

  References: pull request 13110

• DNSName: correct len and offset types

  References: pull request 13723

• getAllDomains catalog: avoid useless copy

  References: pull request 13729

• LUA createForward: allow non-hex word prefix

  References: pull request 13722

Bug Fixes

• lmdb: remove mapasync mode, it was always a lie

  References: pull request 13803

• debian: adjust option names in shipped configs

  References: pull request 13738

• fix tinydnsbackend compilation issue

  References: pull request 13725

• set catalog in gsql getAllDomains

  References: pull request 13633

4.9.0-beta1

Released: not released

4.9.0-alpha1

Released: 12th of January 2024

This is release 4.9.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server.

Please review the Upgrade Notes before upgrading from versions < 4.9.x.

This version contains improvements to the API, ALIAS handling, catalog zones, and some tool improvements. It also contains various bug fixes and smaller improvements, please see the list below.

New Features

• forward EDNS Client Subnet option during ALIAS processing

  References: pull request 13441

• add loglevel-show setting to get logs formatted like structured logs

  References: pull request 13062

• ixfrdist: add NOTIFY receive support

  References: pull request 13322

• dnsscope: Add a –port option to select a custom port

  References: pull request 13287

• sdig: add rudimentary EDE output

  References: pull request 13293

• add default-catalog-zone setting

  References: pull request 13238

• API: replace zone contents et al (Chris Hofstaedtler)

  References: pull request 12086

• geoipbackend: Support reading zones from directory (Aki Tuomi)

  References: pull request 11597

Improvements

• iputils: avoid unused warnings on !linux

  References: pull request 13693

• Remove the extern`ed `StatBag from ws-auth

  References: pull request 13613

• allow building in separate build directory (Chris Hofstaedtler)

  References: pull request 13642

• Move method checking to Router (Aki Tuomi)

  References: pull request 13153, pull request 13641

• Add supervisor to Auth container image

  References: pull request 13619

• Remove legacy terms from the codebase (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 13023

• Wrap DIR* objects in unique pointers to prevent memory leaks

  References: pull request 13191

• bindparser add primary/secondary/etc. keywords (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 13028

• Netmask: Normalize subnet masks coming from a string

  References: pull request 13340

• Report auth settings deprecated in 4.5 (Josh Soref)

  References: pull request 13014

• Improve error message for missing GSS-TSIG feature (Andreas Jakum)

  References: pull request 13192

• Print the list of loaded modules next to the config.h preset

  References: pull request 13162

• Change the default for building with net-snmp from auto to no

  References: pull request 13168

• harmonize *xfr log messages (Josh Soref)

  References: pull request 12565

• Refactor the MultiThreadDistributor using pdns::channel

  References: pull request 12949

• report which backend failed to instantiate

  References: pull request 13065

• add remote to logs when tcp thread dies (Chris Hofstaedtler)

  References: pull request 13063

• Add missing tools to pdns-tools package description (control) (Andreas Jakum)

  References: pull request 13049

• pkcs11signers: If private key object has CKA_ALWAYS_AUTHENTICATE attribute, perform CKU_CONTEXT_SPECIFIC login after OperationInit to make it actually work. (Aki Tuomi)

  References: pull request 12753

• wait for mysql.service (Andras Kovacs)

  References: pull request 13029

• bump sdist builders to alpine 3.18

  References: pull request 12877

• new option ‘ignore-errors’ for setting ‘outgoing-axfr-expand-alias’ (Klaus Darilion)

  References: pull request 11510

Bug Fixes

• improve wildcard CNAME handling (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 13635

• auth api: flush all caches when flushing (Chris Hofstaedtler)

  References: pull request 13514

• CAA records: handle empty value more gracefully, fixes #13070

  References: pull request 13072

• calidns: Fix setting an ECS source of 0

  References: pull request 13018

• calidns: Prevent a crash on an empty domains file

  References: pull request 13019