1 Changes in adns 1.5.2, since adns 1.5.1, are:
3 Important security fixes, and other bugfixes. See changelog.
5 Changes in adns 1.5.1, since adns 1.5.0, are:
7 Bugfixes. See changelog.
9 Changes in adns 1.5.0, since adns 1.4, are:
13 * This release provides full IPv6 support. Applications can request
14 AAAA records (containing IPv6 addresses) as well as, or instead of,
15 A records (containing IPv4 addresses). adns 1.5 can speak to
16 nameservers over IPv6.
18 * adns_addr2text and adns_text2addr: Convenient C functions for
19 converting between addresses and address literals. These carry
20 less baggage than getaddrinfo and getnameinfo.
24 * We fix a crashing bug in adnslogres. (Debian#392102.)
26 * Previously, parsing of some adns_specific options in resolv.conf
27 would go awry if multiple options were specified on the same line.
28 (Fixed since 1.5.0~rc0.)
30 * adns now knows to ignore more things in resolv.conf, rather than
31 warn about them, and there's also an option to disable all of these
32 warnings. (Debian#411263.) (Fixed since 1.5.0~rc0.)
34 * Previously, some harmless but wrong owner names for checked ptr
35 queries would be accepted; now they are rejected with `Domain
36 invalid for particular DNS query type'.
40 * There are some minor API/ABI changes and improvements, for future
43 * There are also some build system, test suite and coding style
46 * Licence is now GPLv3+.
50 adns 1.5 is fully forwards API- and ABI-compatible with 1.4.
52 adns 1.5 is not backwards ABI-compatible, in the sense that
53 applications built against adns 1.5 but run with adns 1.4 may
54 experience `Function not implemented' errors, or `symbol lookup
55 error' due to undefined symbols. But applications built against 1.4
56 will not experience data corruption due to ABI mismatches.
58 adns_r_addr queries (general `address' queries where the application
59 does not specify the kind of address) used to only return AF_INET
60 (IPv4) addresses. To avoid surprising existing applications,
61 AF_INET6 (IPv6) addresses will be returned only if the application
62 explicitly states its support for handling a mixture of address
63 families in the results from adns_r_addr. In a future version of
64 adns this will become the default.
66 adnshost and the other command-line utilities are fully forward- and
67 backward-compatible, except that in adns 1.5, adnshost will return
68 IPv6 as well as IPv4 information if simply asked for `addresses'.
69 Calling programs which did not ask for a specific address type ought
72 The API in 1.5.0 also fixes a technical nonconformance to the C
73 specification. On platforms where an `enum' type might be an
74 integer type whose size is bits is not a power of two, there could
75 be an incompatible ABI change between 1.4 and 1.5 - but we don't
76 think there are many (if any) such platforms which are sufficiently
77 POSIX-like for adns. (Changed since 1.5.0~rc0.)