Knot Resolver 5.3.0 released

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Improvements

  • more consistency in using parent-side records for NS addresses (!1097)
  • better algorithm for choosing nameservers (!1030, !1126, !1140, !1141, !1143)
  • daf module: add daf.clear() (!1114)
  • dnstap module: more features and don't log internal requests (!1103)
  • dnstap module: include in upstream packages and Docker image (!1110, !1118)
  • randomize record order by default, i.e. reorder_RR(true) (!1124)
  • prometheus module: transform graphite tags into prometheus labels (!1109)
  • avoid excessive logging of UDP replies with sendmmsg (!1138)

Bugfixes

  • view: fail config if bad subnet is specified (!1112)
  • doh2: fix memory leak (!1117)
  • policy.ANSWER: minor fixes, mainly around NODATA answers (!1129)
  • http, watchdog modules: fix stability problems (!1136)

Incompatible changes

  • dnstap module: log_responses option gets nested under client; see new docs for config example (!1103)
  • libknot >= 2.9 is required