+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.
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