Version 3.1.0

Monday, August 2, 2021

Features:

  • knotd: automatic zone catalog generation based on actual configuration
  • knotd: zone catalog supports configuration groups
  • knotd: support for ZONEMD validation and generation
  • knotd: basic support for TCP over XDP processing
  • knotd: configuration option for enabling IP route check in the XDP mode
  • knotd: support for epoll (Linux) and kqueue (*BSD, macOS) socket polling
  • knotd: extended EDNS error (EDE) is added to the response if appropriate
  • knotd: DNSSEC operation with extra ready public-only KSK is newly allowed
  • knotd: new zone backup/restore filters for more variable component specification
  • knotd: adaptive systemd service start timeout and new zone loading status #733
  • knotd: configuration option for enabling TCP Fast Open on outbound communication
  • knotd: when the server starts, zone NOTIFY is send only if not sent already
  • knotc: zone reload with the force flag triggers reload of the zone and its modules
  • libs: support for parsing and dumping SVCB and HTTPS resource records
  • kdig: support for TCP Fast Open along with DoT/DoH #549
  • kxdpgun: basic support for DNS over TCP processing
  • kxdpgun: current traffic statistics can be printed using a USR1 signal
  • python: new libknot/probe API wrapper

Improvements:

  • knotd: PID file is created even in the foreground mode
  • knotd: more robust and enhanced zone data backup and restore operations
  • knotd: maximum length of an XFR message is limited to 16 KiB for better compression
  • knotd: maximum CNAME/DNAME chain depth per reply was decreased from 20 to 5
  • knotd: improved performance of processing domain names with many short labels
  • knotd: adaptive limit on the number of LMDB readers to avoid problems with many workers
  • knotd: TTL of generated NSEC(3) records is set to min(SOA TTL, SOA minimum)
  • knotd: TTL of generated NSEC3PARAM is equal to TTL of NSEC3 records
  • knotd: maximum TCP segment size is restricted to 1220 octets on Linux #468
  • knotc: various improvements in error reporting
  • knotc: default control timeout is infinity in the blocking mode
  • dnssec: dnskey generator tries to return a key with a unique keytag
  • kxdpgun: RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is increased only if not high enough
  • kxdpgun: RTNETLINK is used for getting network information instead of the ip command

Bugfixes:

  • knotd: DNAME not applied more than once to resolve the query #714
  • knotd: root zone not correctly purged from the journal
  • kzonecheck: incorrect check for opt-outed empty non-terminal nodes
  • libzscanner: wrong error line number
  • libzscanner: broken multiline rdata processing if an error occurs
  • mod-geoip: NXDOMAIN is responded instead of NODATA #745
  • make: build fails with undefined references if building using slibtool #722

Packaging:

  • knotd: systemd service reload uses 'kill -HUP' instead of 'knotc reload'
  • kxdpgun: new library dependency libmnl
  • mod-dnstap: new package separate from the knot package
  • mod-geoip: new package separate from the knot package

Compatibility:

  • configure: option '--enable-xdp=yes' means use an external libbpf if available
    or use the embedded one
  • libzsanner: omitted TTL value is correctly set to the last explicitly stated value (RFC 1035)
  • knotc: zone restore from an old backup (3.0.x) requires forced operation
  • knotd: configuration option 'server.listen-xdp' is replaced with 'xdp.listen'
  • knotd: zone file loading with automatic SOA serial incrementation newly
    requires having full zone in the journal
  • knotd: obsolete configuration options 'zone.disable-any', 'server.tcp-handshake-timeout'
    are silently ignored
  • knotd: obsolete configuration options 'zone.max-zone-size', 'zone.max-journal-depth',
    'zone.max-journal-usage', 'zone.max-refresh-interval', 'zone.min-refresh-interval' 'server.max-ipv4-udp-payload', 'server.max-ipv6-udp-payload', 'server.max-udp-payload', 'server.tcp-reply-timeout', 'server.max-tcp-clients' are ignored
  • knotd: obsolete default template options 'template.journal-db',
    'template.kasp-db', 'template.timer-db', 'template.max-journal-db-size', 'template.journal-db-mode', 'template.max-timer-db-size', 'template.max-kasp-db-size' are ignored