This is release 5.1.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. It provides many small new features and improvements, as well as bug fixes.
Please review the Upgrade Notes before upgrading from versions < 5.0.x.
Calidns: Initial proxy protocol support¶
References: pull request 15301
Pdnsutil: make “zone list” record sorting optional¶
References: pull request 16569
Pdnsutil: add zone copy command¶
References: pull request 16179
Add support to the new WALLET RRType¶
References: #15449, pull request 16977
Allow adding HTTP Headers in LUA Record ifurlup¶
References: #11610, #8295, pull request 16955
structured logging¶
References: pull request 16240, pull request 16370, pull request 16693
add default-soa-edit-api setting for API zone creation (Seena Fallah)¶
References: #6173, pull request 16807
Add fail-close backupselector mode for Lua healthcheck functions (Xabier Napal)¶
References: #16074, pull request 16659
allow finer-grained rrset changes through the API¶
References: pull request 16589
Lmdb: allow different mapsize values for main and shards¶
References: pull request 16361
Support new SVCB parameters: ohttp, dohpath, tls-supported-groups (Chris Hofstaedtler)¶
References: pull request 15550
Lmdb: optional memory-only freshness check timestamp¶
References: #13024, #16154, pull request 16193
knob to allow underscores in hostnames¶
References: #15386, pull request 16151
Feat: Add DRIP records (HHIT and BRID)¶
References: pull request 16142
backend flush command¶
References: pull request 16184
Lmdb: optional memory-only notification timestamps¶
References: pull request 16141
API: stricter record content validation¶
References: #11052, pull request 16041
No longer allow passing the api-key as a query argument¶
References: #16785, pull request 16790
Prep, but do not actually move to C++20¶
References: #14734, pull request 16077
LMDB: try to reduce the cost of the LS header¶
References: #12663, pull request 16083
Provide a default searchRecords implementation¶
References: pull request 15866
cache the result of some metadata lookups during packet processing¶
References: #15922, pull request 15947
make pdnsutil add-record perform the same checks as the REST API¶
References: #6031, pull request 15386
Pdnsutil: prettier zone output¶
References: #11053, #15891, pull request 15999
Pdnsutil: report corrupted records¶
References: #4941, pull request 15966
Sort API RRs by content if name and type are equal¶
References: #11140, pull request 16951
trim labels faster¶
References: pull request 16928
perform axfr immediately when creating an autosecondary domain¶
References: #16418, pull request 16636
webserver: recognize Accept: / header¶
References: pull request 16520
Display SOA check timestamps in human-readable form¶
References: #11134, pull request 16050
List supported record types in alphabetical order¶
References: pull request 15968
Remove logging interfaces which lack priority arguments¶
References: pull request 16956
remove configurable random generator leftovers, take 2¶
References: #16639, pull request 16919
one less infinite loop¶
References: pull request 16830
More metaprogramming sugar¶
References: pull request 16917
Fix some performance inefficiencies reported by Coverity¶
References: pull request 16915
get rid of a “may be uninitialized” warning.¶
References: pull request 16854
minor getAllDomains optimizations¶
References: pull request 16573
Drop usage of libboost-system library (Chris Hofstaedtler)¶
References: pull request 16826
Base64 tidy and unit test fix¶
References: #16805, pull request 16817
Stricter timestamp checks¶
References: pull request 16820
correctly compute DNSSEC public key exponent lengths when larger than 255¶
References: pull request 16810
Calidns: Also handle PDNSException`s in `main¶
References: pull request 16703
LuaWrapper: Add support for std::variant¶
References: pull request 16622
rfc2136: more code cleanup¶
References: pull request 16348
lmdb: error path cleanup in upgrade code¶
References: pull request 16547
bunch of boring idempotent commits¶
References: pull request 16467
rfc2136: more churning¶
References: pull request 16343
attempt at technical debt reduction in RFC2136 code¶
References: pull request 16306
Ext/json: sync with upstream¶
References: pull request 16293
Luawrapper: correct lua_pop argument¶
References: pull request 16334
Remove dead code¶
References: pull request 16226, pull request 16243, pull request 16445, pull request 16678, pull request 16954
Remove boost < 1.54 leftovers¶
References: pull request 16033
Lmdb-safe: Remove the read-only transactions counter¶
References: pull request 15844
Fix Boost system lib req: it is no longer a lib for boost >= 1.89¶
References: #15972, pull request 15991
objectionable LMDB logic speedups¶
References: #1, pull request 15864
Prefer milliseconds to microseconds for timeouts¶
References: pull request 15958
smarter backend lookup aborts¶
References: pull request 15450
Lmdb: be more careful when looking into the domains table¶
References: pull request 15944
Miscellaneous boring cleanups¶
References: pull request 15922
pdnsutil: Fix command synopsis of “view list”.¶
References: #16747, pull request 16751
dumresp: fix fd leak¶
References: #16365, pull request 16374
Pdnsutil: fix b2b-migrate to from sql to non-sql¶
References: pull request 16209
Pdnsutil: allow spaces in EDITOR¶
References: pull request 16120
Fix interaction between “pdnsutil zone edit” and pipe backend¶
References: pull request 16114
Fix case sensitivity handling for IXFR requests in ixfrdist (Jeremy Muriel)¶
References: pull request 16063
be a bit more explicit regarding @ no longer being magic in pdnsutil¶
References: pull request 15962
Pdnsutil: smarter SOA handling in zone edit¶
References: pull request 15971
Scrub harder in zone rectify¶
References: pull request 15894
yet another logic botch¶
References: pull request 16245
logic botch in ldap backend¶
References: pull request 16225
Use the proper size after processing a proxy protocol payload¶
References: pull request 16965
fix a crash and some cleanup in the auth-catalogzone.cc (Kees Monshouwer)¶
References: pull request 14057
coverity-induced fixes¶
References: pull request 16638, pull request 16958
correctly update tsig keys with PostgreSQL¶
References: #16945, pull request 16947
Ensure LUA record weights are > 0¶
References: #8854, pull request 16948
stricter handling of the Lua DNS update policy¶
References: pull request 16831
web: stricter control of statistics rings changes¶
References: pull request 16731
fix and document behaviour when multiple ALIAS records in an RRset¶
References: #16864, pull request 16884
loosen check in NotificationQueue::removeIf¶
References: pull request 16902
fix stupid logic error in lmdb-write-update-notification=no¶
References: pull request 16871
better advice when creating zones¶
References: pull request 16670
harden SVCB record parsing¶
References: pull request 16710
stricter TTL enforcement for RRset updates¶
References: #7230, pull request 16753
EDNS cookies: Test the timestamp handling in our unit tests¶
References: pull request 16733
EDNS cookies: fix timestamp handling¶
References: pull request 16730
always send a response for {A,I}XFR requests¶
References: pull request 16301
Actually install binaries when building with meson¶
References: pull request 16671
fix geoip_mmdb backend MMDB_open error handling (Ensar Sarajčić)¶
References: pull request 16669
more robustness in createReverse*¶
References: pull request 16657
lmdb: winter paranoia¶
References: pull request 16642
EXTEND and PRUNE are new in 4.9.12 and 5.0.2, not REPLACE¶
References: pull request 16652
remove configurable random generator leftovers¶
References: #16554, pull request 16639
yet another boring autoconf regression¶
References: pull request 16568
Remove some boost::optional leftovers¶
References: pull request 16601
lua: add missing catch block for STL exceptions in createForward¶
References: #15222, pull request 16564
M4/pdns_check_libcrypto: fix ecdsa/eddsa includedir (famfo)¶
References: pull request 16538
sstuff: convert mapped IPv4 addresses for ACL (famfo)¶
References: #16537, pull request 16539
regress: Fix PDNS_BUILD_PATH for non-meson builds¶
References: pull request 16517
meson: reset binary names to original¶
References: pull request 16401
sdist: copy files as files, not as new dirs¶
References: pull request 16398
Luawrapper: on luajit+arm64+tsan, retry allocs harder¶
References: pull request 16451
Cleanup endianness determining code¶
References: #16091, pull request 16440
Api: relax zone name check in view removal¶
References: #16351, pull request 16352
Drop Socket::getline (Chris Hofstaedtler)¶
References: #16335, pull request 16337
Prevent a potential race condition in cache cleaning (DeyanSG)¶
References: #16286, pull request 16287
Allow selecting a specific version of Lua with meson¶
References: pull request 16259
Luawrapper: don’t segfault on failure in traceback handler¶
References: #15173, #16229, pull request 16230
fix a secondary domain type check in bind backend¶
References: pull request 16213
missing space in error message¶
References: pull request 16195
handle ENT in pipe backend¶
References: pull request 16185
remove confusing message¶
References: #2353, pull request 16113
Provide more context in GeoIPbackend YAML parsing failures¶
References: pull request 16183
some more lmdb polish¶
References: pull request 16176
views: perform character set validation of view names¶
References: pull request 16152
odbc tweaks to appease coverity¶
References: #16109, pull request 16150
handle early lua-records-exec-limit exception correctly¶
References: #16118, #16119, pull request 16121
LUA shared exec: reset exec limit for every invocation¶
References: #16118, pull request 16119
Fix EDNS Cookie & Proxy protocol (Jelle Kaufmann)¶
References: pull request 16112
one more configuration sanity check¶
References: pull request 16116
TSIG metadata tweaks¶
References: #9015, pull request 15873
try to improve some error messages¶
References: pull request 16111
memory corruption in ODBC¶
References: pull request 16109
record contents handling changes¶
References: #5208, pull request 16087
REST API: normalize record contents received¶
References: #15990, pull request 15994
smarter bind zone file freshness check¶
References: #469, pull request 16035
REST API: bring back 404 errors¶
References: pull request 16059
Improve lmdb dyndns test results¶
References: pull request 15891
Correctly handle dnsupdate reject by Lua policy¶
References: #14953, pull request 16024
Web server: try harder to return response in the same type as the request¶
References: #7097, pull request 15969
Fix misleading description of tcp-control-port argument. (Ramsanker K R)¶
References: pull request 16056
Make axfr error message more helpful when a domain can’t be found¶
References: #11084, pull request 16046
More zone names in error messages¶
References: #12154, pull request 16006