[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 2.2.0 release

Hello everyone! Knot DNS 2.2.0 by CZ.NIC Labs has been just released! This release brings only a few new features, but it contains a bunch of important bugs fixes and many significant changes under the hood. Let's start with the bug fixes and improvements: - We have resolved build dependency issues on FreeBSD. And we have fixed a problem when detecting PKCS #11 support in GnuTLS. - Some bugs related to Dnstap were resolved as well. The logging module now correctly sets query/response message type. And kdig properly uses the remote address when showing the capture. - The global instances of query modules were not executed for queries hitting existing zones. This problem is fixed in the new release. - We have enabled execution of semantic checks after IXFR to unify the behavior with AXFR. Also the logging of messages related to transfers was improved a little bit. - The DNSSEC signing produces correct NSEC/NSEC3 bitmap for delegations where a glue record has the same name as the delegated zone. - We have added some fixes hopefully improving compatibility with PKCS #11 devices. The most significant change is that the generated keys are marked as sensitive. It makes perfect sense and some devices (e.g. Luna SA) actually require this attribute to be set. - The configuration transaction is not aborted when some consistency check fails. This is particularly useful, if you make a typo when changing the server configuration with knotc. We have also eliminated an incorrect error when the last zone was being removed from the server. - There are also some bug fixes and improvements in the utilities. The keymgr utility should provide more sensible error messages, new consistency checks were added, and some commands were extended a little bit. The kdig utility now properly handles AXFR responses containing only the SOA record in the first message. And kdig will also use a local resolver if the resolv.conf file is empty. - The zone event scheduler was improved. And we hope that it will speed up the event lookup if you have many many zones. And finally the new features: - We have added RRL white listing. This allows to exempt some clients from rate limiting, for example your monitoring hosts. See the rate-limit-whitelist configuration option for details. - We have added support for URI (RFC 7553) and CAA (RFC 6844) resource record types. - The knotc utility now supports interactive mode with command line editing, tab completion, and history. Just start knotc without any command and give it a try. - And the server has a new control interface we will be extending in the future. The knotc utility already uses this interface. And we also have a simple Python binding for this interface. We are definitely looking for some feedback. That's all folks. Thank you for using Knot DNS. Full changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/raw/2.2/NEWS Source archive: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-2.2.0.tar.xz GPG signature: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-2.2.0.tar.xz.asc Cheers, Jan -- Jan Včelák, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs https://www.knot-dns.cz -------------------------------------------- Milešovská 5, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic WWW: https://labs.nic.cz https://www.nic.cz