Changelogs for 4.4.x

4.4.0-alpha2

Released: 20th of July 2020

Improvements

• Check that DNSKEYs have the zone flag set.

  References: pull request 9308

• Remove redundant toLogString() calls (Chris Hofstaedtler).

  References: pull request 9314

• Stop cluttering the global namespace with validation states.

  References: pull request 9312

• Use explicit flag for the specific version of c++ we’re targeting.

  References: pull request 9231

• Use new operator to print states.

  References: pull request 9303

• Refuse QType 0 right away, based on rfc6895 section 3.1.

  References: pull request 9290

• Specify a storage type for validation states.

  References: pull request 9295

• Common TCP write problems should only be logged if wanted.

  References: pull request 9289

• Dump the authority records of a negative cache entry as well.

  References: pull request 9288

• Alternative way to do “skip cname check” for DS and DNSKEY records

  References: #9266, pull request 9272

• Control stack depth when priming.

  References: pull request 9267

• Add version ‘statistic’ to prometheus.

  References: pull request 9252

• Cleanup cache cleaner pruneCollection function.

  References: pull request 9236

• RPZ policy should override gettag_ffi answer by default.

  References: pull request 9203

• Don’t copy the records when scanning for CNAME loops.

  References: pull request 9216

• Do not use using namespace std; .

  References: pull request 9213

• More sophisticated CNAME loop detection.

  References: #9194, #9153, pull request 9202

• Use std::string_view when available (Rosen Penev).

  References: pull request 9207

• Make sure we can install unsigned packages.

  References: pull request 9152

• Clarify docs (Josh Soref).

  References: pull request 9162

• Ensure runtime dirs for virtual services differ.

  References: pull request 9073

• Builder: improve shipped config files (Chris Hofstaedtler).

  References: #8094, pull request 9085

• Less negatives in error messages improves readability.

  References: pull request 9100

• Boost 1.73 moved boost::bind placeholders to the placeholders namespace.

  References: pull request 9070

• Fix useless copies in loop reported by clang++ 10.

  References: pull request 9076

• NetmaskTree: do not test node for null, the loop guarantees node is not null.

  References: pull request 9078

• Wrap pthread objects

  References: pull request 9067

• Get rid of a naked pointer in the /dev/poll event multiplexer.

  References: pull request 9053

• Random engine.

  References: #9004, pull request 9016

Bug Fixes

• Update proxy-protocol.cc (ihsinme).

  References: pull request 9320

• Kill an signed vs unsigned warning on OpenBSD.

  References: pull request 9302

• Don’t validate a NXD with a NSEC proving that the name is an ENT.

  References: pull request 9237

• Fix three shared cache issues.

  References: pull request 9226

• Limit the TTL of RRSIG records as well.

  References: #9193, pull request 9205

• Avoid throwing an exception in Logger::log().

  References: pull request 9079

4.4.0-alpha1

Released: 22th of April 2020

New Features

• Implement native DNS64 support, without Lua.

  References: pull request 8967

• Add custom tags to RPZ hits.

  References: pull request 8927

• Allow attaching a ‘routing’ tag string to a query in lua code and use that tag in the record cache when appropriate.

  References: pull request 8910

• Share record cache between threads.

  References: pull request 8898

• Add support for Proxy Protocol between dnsdist and the recursor.

  References: pull request 8874

Improvements

• Fix warnings with llvm10 and -Wrange-loop-construct (Kirill Ponomarev).

  References: pull request 9000

• Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL APIs (Rosen Penev).

  References: pull request 8985

• Detect {Libre,Open}SSL functions availability during configure.

  References: #8739, pull request 8900

• Better handling of reconnections in Remote Logger.

  References: pull request 8887

• Add ‘queue full’ metrics for our remote logger, log at debug only.

  References: #8629, pull request 8883

• Update boost.m4

  References: #8875, pull request 8876, pull request 8740

• Keep a masked network in the Netmask class.

  References: pull request 8812

• Replace include guard ifdef/define with pragma once (Chris Hofstaedtler).

  References: pull request 8631

• YaHTTP: Support bracketed IPv6 addresses

  References: pull request 8815

• Rework NetmaskTree for better CPU and memory efficiency (Stephan Bosch).

  References: pull request 8355

• RPZ dumpFile/seedFile: store/get SOA refresh on dump/load.

  References: pull request 8778

• Add ‘IO wait’ and ‘steal’ metrics on Linux.

  References: pull request 8783

• DNSName: Don’t call strlen() when the length is already known.

  References: pull request 8792

• Fix build with gcc-10 (Sander Hoentjen).

  References: pull request 8640

Bug Fixes

• Fix compilation of the ports event multiplexer.

  References: #9025, pull request 9031

• Init zone’s d_priority field.

  References: pull request 8830

• QName Minimization sometimes uses 1 label too many.

  References: #8697, pull request 8777