1 I am pleased to announce adns 1.5.0~rc0
3 Changes in adns 1.5, since adns 1.4, are:
5 * This release provides full IPv6 support. Applications can request
6 AAAA records (containing IPv6 addresses) as well as, or instead of,
7 A records (containing IPv4 addresses). adns 1.5 can speak to
10 * There is a fix to the one currently known bug in the resolver:
11 previously, some harmless but wrong owner names for checked ptr
12 queries would be accepted; now they are rejected with `Domain
13 invalid for particular DNS query type'.
15 * We fix a crashing bug in adnslogres. (Debian#392102.)
17 * There are also some build system and test suite improvements.
21 adns 1.5 is fully forwards API- and ABI-compatible with 1.4.
23 adns 1.5 is not backwards ABI-compatible, in the sense that
24 applications built against adns 1.5 but run with adns 1.4 may
25 experience `Function not implemented' errors, or `symbol lookup
26 error' due to undefined symbols. But applications built against 1.4
27 will not experience data corruption due to ABI mismatches.
29 adns_r_addr queries (general `address' queries where the application
30 does not specify the kind of address) used to only return AF_INET
31 (IPv4) addresses. To avoid surprising existing applications,
32 AF_INET6 (IPv6) addresses will be returned only if the application
33 explicitly states its support for handling a mixture of address
34 families in the results from adns_r_addr. In a future version of
35 adns this will become the default.
37 adnshost and the other command-line utilities are fully forward- and
38 backward-compatible, except that in adns 1.5, adnshost will return
39 IPv6 as well as IPv4 information if simply asked for `addresses'.
40 Calling programs which did not ask for a specific address type ought
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