From bcebe7fe4e835edb587548d46024f7d5c0c13efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:29:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Draft release notes for 1.5.0~rc0 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- NEWS | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0718c40 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +I am pleased to announce adns 1.5.0~rc0 + +Changes in adns 1.5, since adns 1.4, are: + + * This release provides full IPv6 support. Applications can request + AAAA records (containing IPv6 addresses) as well as, or instead of, + A records (containing IPv4 addresses). adns 1.5 can speak to + nameservers over IPv6. + + * There is a fix to the one currently known bug in the resolver: + previously, some harmless but wrong owner names for checked ptr + queries would be accepted; now they are rejected with `Domain + invalid for particular DNS query type'. + + * We fix a crashing bug in adnslogres. (Debian#392102.) + + * There are also some build system and test suite improvements. + +Compatibility: + + adns 1.5 is fully forwards API- and ABI-compatible with 1.4. + + adns 1.5 is not backwards ABI-compatible, in the sense that + applications built against adns 1.5 but run with adns 1.4 may + experience `Function not implemented' errors, or `symbol lookup + error' due to undefined symbols. But applications built against 1.4 + will not experience data corruption due to ABI mismatches. + + adns_r_addr queries (general `address' queries where the application + does not specify the kind of address) used to only return AF_INET + (IPv4) addresses. To avoid surprising existing applications, + AF_INET6 (IPv6) addresses will be returned only if the application + explicitly states its support for handling a mixture of address + families in the results from adns_r_addr. In a future version of + adns this will become the default. + + adnshost and the other command-line utilities are fully forward- and + backward-compatible, except that in adns 1.5, adnshost will return + IPv6 as well as IPv4 information if simply asked for `addresses'. + Calling programs which did not ask for a specific address type ought + to cope with this. -- 2.11.0