Changelogs for 5.0.X

5.0.0-alpha1

Released: 13th of September 2023

Improvements

• Rewrite settings code, introducing YAML settings file, using Rust and generated code to implement YAML processing

  References: pull request 13008

• Make aggressive cache pruning more effective and more fair.

  References: pull request 13209

• Remove make_tuple and make_pair (Rosen Penev).

  References: pull request 13208

• Rec: fix a few unused argument warnings (depending on features enabled).

  References: pull request 13190

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

  References: pull request 13168

• Channel: Make the blocking parameters of the object queue explicit.

  References: #13147, pull request 13155

• Do not assume the records are in a particular order when determining if an answer is NODATA.

  References: pull request 13102

• Document default for webserver-loglevel (Frank Louwers).

  References: pull request 13111

• Remove unused sysv init files.

  References: pull request 13087

• Fixes a few performance issues reported by Coverity.

  References: pull request 13092

• Highlight why regression tests failed with github annotation (Josh Soref)

  References: pull request 13074

• Switch from deprecated ::set-output (Josh Soref).

  References: pull request 13073

• Use backticks in rec_control(1) (Josh Soref).

  References: pull request 13067

• Clarify why bulktest is failing (Josh Soref).

  References: pull request 13068

• Set TTL in getFakePTRRecords.

  References: #13011, pull request 13043

• Update settings.rst – clarify edns-subnet-allow-list (Seth Arnold).

  References: pull request 13032

• Dnsheader: Switch from bitfield to uint16_t whenever possible.

  References: pull request 13026

• Clarify log message for NODATA/NXDOMAIN without AA (Håkan Lindqvist).

  References: pull request 12805

• Use arc4random only for random values.

  References: pull request 12913, pull request 12931, pull request 12999, pull request 13001, pull request 13022, pull request 13175, pull request 15197

• Update base Debian version in Docker docs (Italo Cunha).

  References: pull request 12851

• Delint pdns recursor.cc.

  References: pull request 12917

• Include qname when logging skip of step 4 of qname minimization (Doug Freed).

  References: pull request 12957

• Fix a set of move optimizations, as suggested by Coverity.

  References: pull request 12952

• Silence Coverity 1462719 Unchecked return value from library.

  References: pull request 12934

• Fix compile warnings.

  References: pull request 12930

• Dns random: add method to get full 32-bits of randomness.

  References: pull request 12913

• Reformat and delint arguments.cc and arguments.hh.

  References: pull request 12808

Bug Fixes

• Remove Before=nss-lookup.target line from unit file.

  References: pull request 13210

• TCPIOHandler: Fix a race when creating the first TLS connections.

  References: pull request 13167

• Rec: Include cstdint in mtasker_ucontext.cc, noted by @zeha.

  References: pull request 13174