Changelogs for 5.0.x

5.0.0-alpha1

Released: 27th of May 2025

This is release 5.0.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. The major new feature in 5.0.0 is Views support. Besides that, this release also contains a long list of other improvements.

New Features

• new feature: Views

  References: pull request 15393, pull request 15421, pull request 15441, pull request 15470, pull request 15512

• webserver Unix socket support (tacerus)

  References: pull request 15265

• sdig: implement cookie support

  References: pull request 15140

• lua records: new option to set the http status code to match in ifurlup function

  References: pull request 15127

• Add a “failOnIncompleteCheck” option to if*up Lua functions

  References: pull request 15098

• Provide additional answers in NAPTR queries

  References: pull request 15083, pull request 15253

• allow turning off across-zone resolving (zeha)

  References: pull request 14604

• added a new config for direct queries of dnskey signature (d-wibowo)

  References: pull request 14581

• pdnsutil: Add backend-lookup subcommand

  References: pull request 14505

• Add setting to make TSIG required for DNS updates (Assumeru)

  References: pull request 13770

• Lua global include (cmouse)

  References: pull request 11678

• added self weighted lua function (n0tlu5)

  References: pull request 10692

Removed Features

• [feature] remove support for libdecaf

  References: pull request 14926

Improvements

• Fix building with GCC 15.1: missing cstdint include

  References: pull request 15520

• Use a unique type for domain ids

  References: pull request 15474

• Better behaviour with non-working DNSSEC configurations

  References: pull request 15451

• Add a quiet option to pdnsutil

  References: pull request 15443

• Log DNS packet parse errors

  References: pull request 15390

• fix log string in case there are notifies needed

  References: pull request 15353

• [geoip] Try and be more helpful in YAML error exceptions

  References: pull request 15334

• API: allow fetching disabled RRsets

  References: pull request 15299

• Damage control in Lua createForward()

  References: pull request 15222

• [pdnsutil] Command aliases

  References: pull request 15207

• [pdnsutil] Suggest increase-serial after create-zone

  References: pull request 15197

• lmdb-safe: add prefix() cursor; use it in list/lookup/get

  References: pull request 15176

• [pdnsutil] dedup in add-record

  References: pull request 15170

• [pdnsutil] Better error message when disk full

  References: pull request 15160

• Make the record representation of ALIAS match CNAME

  References: pull request 15152

• Low-hanging LMDB fruits

  References: pull request 15147

• [pdnsutil] Let add-zone-key use defaults from pdns.conf

  References: pull request 15131

• Let pdnsutil warn when creating local files

  References: pull request 15105

• Grow tinydnsbackend capabilities a bit

  References: pull request 15103

• try to find ldap libs in case pkg-config is missing (happens on debian11)

  References: pull request 15086

• More helpful pdnsutil help output

  References: pull request 15082

• pdnsutil: check for key presence after import

  References: pull request 15080

• Adjust Content-Type header for Prometheus endpoint to include version (Woutifier)

  References: pull request 15072

• Include cstdint to get uint64_t

  References: pull request 15063

• Correctly report SQL insertion errors

  References: pull request 15049

• Exit gracefully on ^D on control-console

  References: pull request 15041

• [lmdb] Ignore unreachable TSIG keys in getTSIGKeys

  References: pull request 15004

• Lua up checks: finer control

  References: pull request 14996

• createForward and createForward6 will use the zone_record as base (BozhanL)

  References: pull request 14993

• prevent createReverse6 from generating illegal IDN record (BozhanL)

  References: pull request 14975

• pdnsutil edit-zone: Emit the updated SOA serial (ukleinek)

  References: pull request 14900

• Rework MDBIn/OutVal

  References: pull request 14782

• pdns: allow empty string in version-string (bjacquin)

  References: pull request 14781

• webserver.cc: try to pass exception text with 500 errors

  References: pull request 14670

• sdig: some improvements for stdin mode

  References: pull request 14665

• more and better thread names

  References: pull request 14642

• dnsproxy: make local port range configurable (zeha)

  References: pull request 14591

• ssqlite3: use “begin immediate” to avoid later fights over upgrading to write

  References: pull request 14576

• Fix build with boost 1.86.0 (cho-m)

  References: pull request 14562

• Add doc reference to oversized chunk message (jsoref)

  References: pull request 14561

• json11: add include for cstdint

  References: pull request 14550

• provide dns packet when doing lookup for presigned signatures (d-wibowo)

  References: pull request 14394

• allow -lodbc in a non-standard location

  References: pull request 14368

• web: make request/response timeout configurable (ns-sjorgedeaguiar)

  References: pull request 14218

• YaHTTP: Enforce max # of request fields and max request line size

  References: pull request 14197

• dnsproxy: fix build on s390x (zeha)

  References: pull request 14047

• pdnsutil check-zone: accept LUA A/AAAA as SVCB address targets

  References: pull request 14011

• Do shuffle TCP responses except *XFRs (karelbilek)

  References: pull request 13980

• Add Meson as a build system for auth

  References: pull request 13959

• deprecate output of SHA1, GOST hashes

  References: pull request 13951

• sdig: remove xpf handling

  References: pull request 13930

• LUA: support returning empty set in filterForward

  References: pull request 13879

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

  References: pull request 13867

• RPM packages: change home directory to /var/lib/pdns (mortenstevens)

  References: pull request 13772

• gmysql: modernise implementation of gmysql-ssl flag

  References: pull request 13060

• m4: Enable 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems with glibc-2.34 (swegener)

  References: pull request 10933

Bug Fixes

• Trust inet_pton to validate IPv6 addresses and nothing more

  References: pull request 15570

• mysql: use MYSQL_TYPE_LONGLONG on 64bit platforms (zeha)

  References: pull request 15340

• lmdb: be more robust against marked-as-deleted items

  References: pull request 15339

• Fix list-all-zones in multi-backend configuration involving LMDB

  References: pull request 15238

• Improve LMDBBackend reliability

  References: pull request 15175

• [pdnsutil] Do not allow increase-serial on secondary zones

  References: pull request 15133

• check return value of getCatalogMembers() (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 15093

• Avoid LMDB exception during recursive lookup

  References: pull request 15090

• Fix ipv*hint=auto on lmdb backend

  References: pull request 14931

• [bugfix] Reject hexadecimal blobs with odd number of characters

  References: pull request 14913

• fix register type race

  References: pull request 14897

• don’t log absence of GSS-TSIG functionality at such a high level, use DEBUG

  References: pull request 14842

• SVCB parser: allow quotes around port=

  References: pull request 14823

• don’t build .so for non-dyn modules

  References: pull request 14676

• Fix leak of MDB_env object

  References: pull request 14625

• fix domain ordering in query for mysql and odbc-sqlite, and test it

  References: pull request 14500

• catalogs SQL: force order of domains to avoid spurious rehashes

  References: pull request 14454

• Fix compile error on OPENSSL_VERSION_MAJOR < 3

  References: pull request 14419

• geoipbackend: link C++ filesystem lib if necessary

  References: pull request 14277

• pdnsutil check-zone: make LUA records optional (swegener)

  References: pull request 14261

• ixfrdist: Fix broken ‘uid’ and ‘gid’ parsing for non-numerical values

  References: pull request 14242

• Fix memory leaks in the bind file format parser

  References: pull request 14196

• API: when querying with rrset_name, respect it for comments too

  References: pull request 14045

• Properly finalize PKCS11 modules before releasing them

  References: pull request 14029

• ixfrdist: use IPV6_V6ONLY on listening sockets, closes #13878

  References: pull request 13949

• do not disable ns records at apex in consumer zones (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 13841

• catalog, include groups in hash calculation (Kees Monshouwer)

  References: pull request 13205