[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 1.4.4

Hi Everyone, while we in the CZ.NIC Labs are all focused on the next big thing, I thought now it might be a good time to get out another of our (admittedly highly irregular) monthly patch releases. Bug fixes aside, there are a couple improvements that we hope will make your life easier. Here's the breakdown: - 'knotc reload' does not immediately refresh/notify unchanged zones. This fixes the flurry of refresh messages after each reload and makes it lightweight enough to be used frequently. Note that new/changed zones are still added and old zones are removed. However, if you want to refresh zones explicitly, you need to call 'knotc refresh' after reload now. - 'knotc -f refresh' now truly forces a zone refresh. To put it in another words, it's akin to the 'retransfer' command that you missed in the Knot DNS and instead of checking for new zone, it starts a full transfer of the zone right away. - 'knotc' remote commands are now logged in the daemon logfile Now, there are several bugfixes as well. See the NEWS for a complete list, but here's a selection of the most notable - in several cases notify messages weren't sent after a zone resign, progressive bootstrap retry regression was fixed, few issues with journal and maximum entry size. There is also a slight behaviour change in the zone file parser and the daemon itself. First - zone file parser now accepts asterisk in the domain name labels (wildcards aside). As for the daemon, if a zone is in a slave mode and fails to load for some reason, it immediately tries to reboostrap from the master server instead of just reporting an error. I'd also like to thank to Robert S. Edmonds for amending various spelling errors and typos in manpages and documentation, thanks! So that's it, I hope the improvements make this update a little worthwhile before new stuff comes out later this spring. Full changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.4.4/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.4.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.4.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.4.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.4.tar.xz.asc Kind Regards, Marek -- Marek Vavrusa, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs http://www.knot-dns.cz ------------------------------------------- Americká 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic WWW: http://labs.nic.cz http://www.nic.cz