Changelogs for 5.2.X

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5.2.0-alpha1

Released: 11th of November 2024

Improvements

• rec_control top* cleanup.

  References: #13066, pull request 14825

• Coverity-20241105 and one log level change.

  References: pull request 14824

• Add 38696 root anchor.

  References: pull request 14525

• Implement catalog zones to populate forwarding zones.

  References: #12865, pull request 14759

• Provide a few more Lua functions, most importantly record cache dump and load and hook when starting and stopping the recursor.

  References: #8032, pull request 14796

• Actively deprecate old style settings.

  References: pull request 14809

• Periodic stats cleanup and rename outqueries-per-query to outqueries-per-query-perc.

  References: pull request 14816

• Generate metrics related files from a single source.

  References: pull request 14722

• Notify_allowed should be processed for forward_zones and forward_zones_recurse.

  References: pull request 14506

• Implement rfc6303 special zones (mostly v6 reverse mappings).

  References: pull request 14693

• Give a more clear error message if the build fails because python was not found.

  References: pull request 14697

• Rust related version updates.

  References: pull request 14653, pull request 14758

• RPZ tweaks: log policyName on policyHit when updating root.

  References: pull request 14694

• Stop supporting ucontext flavor for context switching from out codebase. boost might still provide methods on some platforms using ucontext.

  References: pull request 14651

• Introduce a “too large” counter for the framestream remote logger.

  References: pull request 14666

• Move minimal boost version to 1.54.

  References: pull request 14633

• Rework auth response sanitize code.

  References: pull request 14595

• Rework the way tcp-in limits is maintained.

  References: pull request 14606

• Always include all stats for RPZs in Prometheus data (previously zero stats would be skipped).

  References: #14522, pull request 14557

• Limit the number of async tasks pushed to resolve NS names.

  References: pull request 14499

• Add meson build

  References: #13987, pull request 14458, pull request 14487, pull request 14517, pull request 14678

• Provide docker image with yml config file.

  References: pull request 14459

• Show throttle reason in rec_control dump-throttlemap.

  References: pull request 14408

• Fix coverity 1544951 copy_instead_of_move.

  References: pull request 14386

• Tidy AXFRRetriever::timeoutReadn.

  References: pull request 14385

• Cleanup read2n and mark unixDie as [[noreturn]].

  References: pull request 14381

Bug Fixes

• Fix a difference between record-cache hit and miss in some ServFail results if QName Minimization is enabled.

  References: #14310, pull request 14822

• Drop ref in mtasker when it is no longer needed.

  References: pull request 14807

• Only log MOADNSExceptions if logging.log_common_errors is true.

  References: #14582, pull request 14611

• Refactor version reporting code and write version to stdout.

  References: #14455, pull request 14518

• Dump right SOA into dumpFile and report non-relative SOA for includeSOA=true.

  References: pull request 14471

• Refactor sanitizeRecords and fix order dependency.

  References: pull request 14430

• Fix compile error on OPENSSL_VERSION_MAJOR < 3.

  References: #14327, pull request 14419

• Yahttp router: appease coverity with respect to unsigned underflow in match().

  References: pull request 14404