From: Bert Hubert Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:01:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: release notes X-Git-Tag: pdns-2.9.17~1 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cfa31ebd95d4f1ba2d746e37a025d82172f29d66;p=pdns release notes git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@273 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b --- diff --git a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml index 3956d57a7..910090011 100644 --- a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml +++ b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ - v2.1 $Date: 2005/01/11 19:24:27 $ + v2.1 $Date: 2005/01/11 21:01:08 $ @@ -86,30 +86,118 @@ See the new timeline for progress reports. + The 'million domains' release - PowerDNS has now firmly established itself as a major player with the + unofficial count (ie, guesswork) now at over two million PowerDNS domains! Also, the GeoBackend has been tested + by a big website and may soon see wider deployment. Thanks to Mark Bergsma for spreading the word! + + + It is also a release with lots of changes and fixes. Take care when deploying! + + + Security issues: - GMySQL now works on Solaris + PowerDNS could be temporarily DoSed using a random stream of bytes. Reported cause of this has been fixed. + + + + + + Enhancements: + + + + Reported version can be changed, or removed - see the "version-string" setting. - PowerDNS could be confused by questions with a %-sign in them + Duplicate MX records are now no longer considered duplicate if their priorities differ. Some people need this feature for + spam filtering. + + + + + + Bug fixes: + + + + + NAPTR records can now be slaved, patch by Lorens Kockum. + + + + + GMySQL now works on Solaris - Duplicate MX records are now no longer considered duplicate if their priorities differ. + PowerDNS could be confused by questions with a %-sign in them - fixing cvstrac ticket #16 (reported by dilinger at voxel.net) + - Reported version can be changed, or removed + An authentication bug in the webserver was possibly fixed, please report if you were suffering from this. Being unable + to authenticate to the webserver was what you would've noticed. - An authentication bug in the webserver was possibly fixed, please report if you were suffering from this. + Fix for cvstrac ticket #2, PowerDNS could lose sync when sending out a very large number of notifications. Excellent bug report + by Martin Hoffman, who also improved our original bugfix. + + + + + Fix the oldest PowerDNS bug in existence - under some circumstances, PowerDNS would log to syslog one character at a time. + This was cvstrac ticket #4 + + + + + HINFO records can now be slaved, fixing cvstrac ticket #8. + + + + + pdns_recursor could block under some circumstances, especially in case of corrupt UDP packets. Reported by Wichert Akkerman. Fix by + Christopher Meer. This was cvstrac ticket #13. + + + + + Large SOA serial numbers would sometimes be logged as a signed integer, leading to negative numbers in the log. + + + + + PowerDNS now fully supports 32 bit SOA serial numbers (thanks to Mark Bergsma), closing cvstrac ticket #5. + + + + + pdns_recursor --local-address help text was wrong. + + + + + Very devious bug - PowerDNS did not clear its cache before sending out update notifications, leading slaves + to conclude there was no update to AXFR. Excellent debugging by mkuchar at wproduction.cz. + + + + + Probably fixed cvstrac ticket #26, which caused pdns_recursor to fail on recent FreeBSD 5.3 systems. Please check, + I have no such system to test on. + + + + + Geobackend did not get built for Debian.