Hi everyone, we've been very busy for the last couple months, and I'm glad to let you know, that the Knot DNS v1.3.0 first release candidate is finally out! This is a feature-full release, packing a lot of new stuff and improvements. The major change since 1.2.0 is the zone compilation, which is now deprecated and zone files are parsed directly on startup. This was made possible with the new zone file parser, which is neck to neck in terms of speed with whole parsing to loading a precompiled zone. So no more 'compile' steps. Configuration file is also improved with the handy 'group' keyword, that allows you to make groups of remotes and also a support to include another part of config file. This is useful for example if you want to store keys elsewhere. We also now support queries to pseudo CH zone (RFC4892 style), so that is configurable as well (we support identity, version and hostname). On the backend part, we have overhauled several internal structures to lower memory consumption and improved speed and scheduling of zone transfers. Log messages for those are improved as well, giving a more verbose overview of what was transferred, which serial and how long. Apart from that, there are a lot of smaller performance improvements, revamped build system and a lot of small details. For example zone files written out on slave contain a source address, time and other useful information. See NEWS or gitlog for more details. Last new (sort of) feature is, that we included our own DNS tools. Namely kdig, khost and knsupdate. They are quite compatible with BIND9 tools, but they also bring several improvements in logging, prettified output and checks. Be sure to check them out. We also had a terrific user feedback, thanks to Erwin Lansing, Anand Buddhdev, Jan-Piet Mens and everyone for the reports. So that's mostly it! For a full overview of changes see: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/knot/blob/v1.3.0-rc1/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.bz2 https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.xz GPG signature: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.bz2.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.3.0-rc1.tar.xz.asc Packages available at www.knot-dns.cz will be updated soon as well. Kind regards, Marek -- Marek Vavruša 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