Knot Resolver 5.1.0 released

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Improvements

  • cache garbage collector: reduce filesystem operations when idle (!946)
  • policy.DEBUG_ALWAYS and policy.DEBUG_IF for limited verbose logging (!957)
  • daemon: improve TCP query latency under heavy TCP load (!968)
  • add policy.ANSWER action (!964, #192)
  • policy.rpz support fake A/AAAA (!964, #194)

Bugfixes

  • cache: missing filesystem support for pre-allocation is no longer fatal (#549)
  • lua: policy.rpz() no longer watches the file when watch is set to false (!954)
  • fix a strict aliasing problem that might've lead to "miscompilation" (!962)
  • fix handling of DNAMEs, especially signed ones (#234, !965)
  • lua resolve(): correctly include EDNS0 in the virtual packet (!963) Custom modules might have been confused by that.
  • do not leak bogus data into SERVFAIL answers (#396)
  • improve random Lua number generator initialization (!979)
  • cache: fix CNAME caching when validation is disabled (#472, !974)
  • cache: fix CNAME caching in policy.STUB mode (!974)
  • prefill: fix crash caused by race condition with resolver startup (!983)
  • webmgmt: use javascript scheme detection for websockets' protocol (#546)
  • daf module: fix del(), deny(), drop(), tc(), pass() functions (#553, !966)
  • policy and daf modules: expose initial query when evaluating postrules (#556)
  • cache: fix some cases of caching answers over 4 KiB (!976)
  • docs: support sphinx 3.0.0+ (!978)

Incompatible changes