Knot Resolver 3.0.0 released

Monday, August 20, 2018

Incompatible changes

  • cache: fail lua operations if cache isn't open yet (!639) By default cache is opened after reading the configuration, and older versions were silently ignoring cache operations. Valid configuration must open cache using cache.open() or cache.size = before executing cache operations like cache.clear().
  • libknot >= 2.7.1 is required, which brings also larger API changes
  • in case you wrote custom Lua modules, please consult https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lib.html#incompatible-changes-since-3-0-0
  • in case you wrote custom C modules, please see compile against Knot DNS 2.7 and adjust your module according to messages from C compiler
  • DNS cookie module (RFC 7873) is not available in this release, it will be later reworked to reflect development in IEFT dnsop working group
  • version module was permanently removed because it was not really used by users; if you want to receive notifications about new releases please subscribe to https://lists.nic.cz/postorius/lists/knot-resolver-announce.lists.nic.cz/

Bugfixes

  • fix multi-process race condition in trust anchor maintenance (!643)
  • ta_sentinel: also consider static trust anchors not managed via RFC 5011

Improvements

  • reorder_RR() implementation is brought back
  • bring in performance improvements provided by libknot 2.7
  • cache.clear() has a new, more powerful API
  • cache documentation was improved
  • old name "Knot DNS Resolver" is replaced by unambiguous "Knot Resolver" to prevent confusion with "Knot DNS" authoritative server