[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 1.4.0-rc2 & 1.3.4

Hi Everyone, we're on a fast track for the 1.4.0 final release as a late Christmas present now, so I'd like to give you a second preview of what is to come. On top of all that, we've encountered a several bugs, namely a race condition in event scheduling and bad additionals processing in special cases, so we decided to break the jinx of today's date and release a new stable version as well with backported fixes. But I digress, what's new in the 1.4.0 rc2 ? We implemented IDN support in the utilities, DNSSEC signing now supports GOST algorithm and several other enhancements. Speaking of which, 1.4.0 users can rejoice over prettier zone files, where DNSSEC-related data are written separately from the others, thus improving readability. Then there's configuration, where 'dnssec-keydir' and 'storage' can be configured for each zone separately and lower memory consumption. In fact we have a new benchmark section on our webpage which we update every now and then, so you can have a look not only at the response rate but also at the startup time and the memory consumption that I was talking about. Here's the page: https://www.knot-dns.cz/pages/benchmark.html The whole benchmarking is open source, so you can have a look at the scenarios, download the test suite yourself and see how we measure things. I'd like to thank Jonathan Hoppe and all for the bugreports and feedback. It's very appreciated. That's all, enjoy the spooky Friday 13th and the weekend. Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.bz2 https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.xz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.bz2 https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.bz2.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0-rc2.tar.xz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.bz2.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.4.tar.xz.asc Kind Regards, Marek