Knot Resolver 6.1.0 released

Thursday, January 8, 2026

6.1.0 is the first officially stable release of version 6. As of this release, version 6 is preferred over version 5.

Improvements:

  • logging: improved logging groups (!1768)
  • support libdnssec merged into libknot, as planned for knot >= 3.6 (!1769)
  • support cmocka 2.0.0 (!1772)
  • avoid AD=1 in reply if ANSWER+AUTHORITY are empty (#914, !1780)
  • defer: enabled by default in declarative configuration (!1785)
    • /defer/enable: false -> true
  • datamodel: lua: added Lua scripts for policy-loader (!1771)

Bugfixes

  • reload did not apply changes to /fallback (!1763)
  • fix config.cache.clear test on apple silicon (!1766)
  • cache: fix wrong TTL in some cases, typically 32768 (!1774)