[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 1.4.0 released!

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a terrific Christmas. Now, I know it's all work, but after some time spent in the release candidate, CZ.NIC Labs are proud to release Knot DNS 1.4.0 final version. There have been a several bugfixes, odds and ends since the last release candidate. Namely NSEC3/transfer related bugs and case sensitivity of QNAME, there's a link for an exhaustive list of changes below. But allow me to reiterate what's new since the 1.3 version. Shall we? Since the first beta, we have brought a new major feature on the table. A technology preview of an automatic DNSSEC signing. Now, since it's not a final product, there are still a few shortcomings; mainly key management and auxiliary tools missing. However, that shouldn't stop you from giving it a try! We've written a short "how to" on our wiki page here: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/wikis/dnssec-quickstart But it's really as simple and creating signing keys and setting "dnssec-enable on;" There are few more enhancements like IDN in the utilities, zone serial policies and fancier zone file printout. Plus a lot of changes under the bonnet. Say for example the memory consumption, which is significantly lower (~35% for our large zones). We've also doubled our (continuous) efforts in producing both unit and operational test cases, not to mention Knot DNS being kindly accepted in the Coverity Scan program for open source software. We've also spent some time on other related projects. Say the comparison of the authoritative name servers, that you can find here: https://www.knot-dns.cz/pages/benchmark.html The whole effort is open source, you can try it yourself or even create new test cases, any feedback is welcome. https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/dns-benchmarking With all that, the work is far from finished. We're going to further polish the Knot DNS 1.4 features and prepare a new version at the same time. By the way, we have a few surprises for you in that department as well. Last but not least, we and the whole CZ.NIC Labs would like to thank you, our users and supporters, who poured a lot of time into helping us shape the Knot DNS the way it is. It's truly appreciated. Here's a full change log: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.4.0/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.bz2 https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.bz2.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.0.tar.xz.asc Kind Regards, Marek, CZ.NIC Labs -- Marek Vavruša Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs http://www.knot-dns.cz ------------------------------------------- Americká 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic WWW: http://labs.nic.cz http://www.nic.cz