Changelogs for 5.3.X
====================

Before upgrading, it is advised to read the :doc:`../upgrade`.

.. changelog::
  :version: 5.3.0-alpha1
  :released: 25th of June 2025

  .. change::
    :tags:  Improvements
    :pullreq: 15668

    Add facility to generate trace data in OpenTelemetry format.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15686
    :tickets: 15674

    Implement stop command as alias for quit(-nicely).

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15715

    Avoid implicit truncating cast of inception skew.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15700

    Two Coverity issues, the truncation is meant to be.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15692
    :tickets: 15059

    Introduce aliases for camelCase field names in config file.

  .. change::
    :tags: Bug Fixes
    :pullreq: 15652
    :tickets: 15651

    When using ZoneToCache, do not store non-auth data if the name is subject to recursive forwarding.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15661
    :tickets: 15660

    Fix negativetrustanchor.server CH TXT query processing (disabled by default).

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15626

    Build el-9 package with luajit on arm64.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15592 15628 15636

    Rec: build packages using meson.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15596

    Start building packages for trixie.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15584

    Use Rust 1.87.0 when building our packages.

  .. change::
    :tags: Bug Fixes
    :pullreq: 15546

    Force some files to be regenerated when table.py changes.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15525

    Upgrade to protozero 1.8.0.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15435

    Add a Lua function to get the config dir and name.

  .. change::
    :tags: Bug Fixes
    :pullreq: 15437

    Strip quotes meson adds from SYSCONFDIR (and two other config values).

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15396

    Fix a difference between record-cache hit and miss in some ServFail results.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15373

    Rec: [meson] make nod a feature instead of a boolean

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15369

    When CARGO_TARGET_DIR is set the generated C++ files end up in a different location.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15368
    :tickets: 15367

    Fix generation of recursor config if PDNS_RECURSOR_API_KEY is set.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15309

    Meson systemd cleanup.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15293

    Ddd libcap feature and sync build-and-test-all options with autotools variants.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15292 15307

    Export ffi symbols so they become available to Lua.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15272

    Fix libsnmp define.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15273

    More consistency in logging statements generated in web server code.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15261

    Make sure t_tcpClientCounts is always initialized.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15260

    Fix a few gcc warnings on trixie.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15217

    Tidy of structured logging related files.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15169

    Use meson to generate docs (html + pdf)

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15167
    :tickets: 14096

    Reload proxy settings on rec_control reload-acls.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15216

    Store thread id in info object, makes a few methods less error prone.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15203
    :tickets: 15202

    Switch back to serde_yaml.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15192
    :tickets: 15179

    Add two missing includes.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15168 15157

    Minor Coverity issues.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15161

    Add meson install target and fix meson dist issues after new way of generating man pages was merged.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15154

    Fix cxx include dir.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15114

    Move to embedded web service written in Rust supporting multiple listen addresses and TLS.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 14976

    Make quit-nicely wait on actual quit and start using it for stopping by systemd.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15139

    Check bounds of rcode stats counter index (safe right now).

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 14954

    Clang-tidy: use std::min/max (Rosen Penev).

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15066

    Tidy credentials.??.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15050 15057

    Rec: New Coverity Variable copied when it could be moved cases

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15040
    :tickets: 13704

    EDNSSubnetOpts refactoring

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 15038

    Compute size *estimate* for record cache allocated size.

  .. change::
    :tags: Bug Fixes
    :pullreq: 15033

    Delete temp file on failure to dump RPZ file.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 14617
    :tickets: 14120

    Dedup records.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 14985 15017

    Store authority recs and signatures as shared pointers to const data.

  .. change::
    :tags: Improvements
    :pullreq: 14973
    :tickets: 14918

    If the full CNAME chain leading to the answer is cached, indicate that.