X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=18130c2b83d5c0348bf1c8d6160523d4c088211e;hb=814cee186999a6e9a76ab970f891347c1e42b132;hp=bd0dff178497b8386e0f3d746f7192213867aa11;hpb=2065d3733fcda446090b84d3bc87a8414d19feeb;p=adns.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bd0dff1..18130c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,24 +1,49 @@ -Changes in adns 1.5, since adns 1.4, are: +Changes in adns 1.5.2, since adns 1.5.1, are: + + Important security fixes, and other bugfixes. See changelog. + +Changes in adns 1.5.1, since adns 1.5.0, are: + + Bugfixes. See changelog. + +Changes in adns 1.5.0, since adns 1.4, are: + + New features: * 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. - * adns_addr2text and adns_text2addr: Convenient C functions for - converting between addresses and address literals. These carry - less baggage than getaddrinfo and getnameinfo. + * adns_addr2text and adns_text2addr: Convenient C functions for + converting between addresses and address literals. These carry + less baggage than getaddrinfo and getnameinfo. + + Bugfixes: + + * We fix a crashing bug in adnslogres. (Debian#392102.) + + * Previously, parsing of some adns_specific options in resolv.conf + would go awry if multiple options were specified on the same line. + (Fixed since 1.5.0~rc0.) - * There is a fix to the one currently known bug in the resolver: - previously, some harmless but wrong owner names for checked ptr + * adns now knows to ignore more things in resolv.conf, rather than + warn about them, and there's also an option to disable all of these + warnings. (Debian#411263.) (Fixed since 1.5.0~rc0.) + + * 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.) + Other: - * There are also some build system and test suite improvements. + * There are some minor API/ABI changes and improvements, for future + proofing. - * Licence is now GPLv3. + * There are also some build system, test suite and coding style + improvements. + + * Licence is now GPLv3+. Compatibility: @@ -43,3 +68,11 @@ Compatibility: 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. + + The API in 1.5.0 also fixes a technical nonconformance to the C + specification. On platforms where an `enum' type might be an + integer type whose size is bits is not a power of two, there could + be an incompatible ABI change between 1.4 and 1.5 - but we don't + think there are many (if any) such platforms which are sufficiently + POSIX-like for adns. (Changed since 1.5.0~rc0.) +