[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 1.6.5 patch release

Hello list. Today, CZ.NIC Labs releases Knot DNS 1.6.5. This patch release contains quite a lot of non-critical bug fixes and some minor improvements. Everyone is advised to upgrade. Let's go through the fixed bugs quickly: - The server no longer loads expired zones on 'knotc reload' and server startup. - We have fixed a rare race-condition in the event scheduling code. The race caused that events for some zones were significantly delayed. (We were reported that the server is occasionally ignoring notify messages for random zones when the server is receiving many notifies. We believe this bug was the cause and the problem should no longer appear.) - There was a bug in the NSEC proofs construction. When the zone contained many delegations, the NSEC proving non-existence of a covering wildcard was incorrect. The problem is fixed now. - The TC flag was not set correctly for RRL slipped answers. This problem is resolved as well. - We have disabled domain name compression for the root label '.' because it caused negative compression and some client implementations (like Go DNS) might have problem decoding these answers. - The server is now checking whether it is executed in the systemd enviroment before using journald as a sink for log messages. Also the systemd library detection at a build time was improved. - We have also eliminated compilation warnings in endian-conversion functions on OpenBSD. And as for the new features: - The persistent timers are now written to the on-disk database only on server shutdown. This change was done mainly to improve startup and reload performance. - The 'max-conn-idle', 'max-conn-handshake', 'max-conn-reply', and 'notify-timeout' config options now accept time units specification (e.g., one can use 2m instead of 120). - We have added 'request-edns-option' config option, which allows inserting custom EDNS0 options into all queries initiated by the server. And that's all folks. I would like to thank everyone involved in making this release, especially bug reporters. We are looking forward to your feedback. The sources are available as usual. Full changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/raw/1.6/NEWS Source archives: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.5.tar.xz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.5.tar.gz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.5.tar.xz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.5.tar.gz.asc Best Regards, 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