Changelogs for 4.7.x

4.7.0-alpha1

Released: 17th of February 2022

This is version 4.7.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. This release contains a few new features compared to 4.6, and a couple of other fixes/changes.

New features:

• lmdbbackend databases now get a UUID assigned, making it easy for external software to spot if a database was completely replaced
• lmdbbackend databases now optionally use random IDs for objects
• a new LUA function called ifurlextup
• autoprimary management in pdnsutil and the HTTP API

Please make sure to read the upgrade notes before upgrading.

New Features

• lmdb: add random ID generation feature

  References: pull request 11309

• auth LUA: add ifurlextup function

  References: pull request 11227

• auth lmdb: add a UUID to newly created databases

  References: pull request 11241

• new pdnsutil zonemd-verify-file command

  References: pull request 11100

• auth: add autoprimary management in API & pdnsutil

  References: pull request 11102

Improvements

• el7 builds: switch to boost 1.69

  References: pull request 11315

• builder: migrate EL8 builds to oraclelinux, rename centos8 to el8 where possible

  References: pull request 11262

• libssl: fix compilation issues on older openssl versions

  References: pull request 11108

Bug Fixes

• lmdb: default values for KeyDataDB members, thanks ubsan

  References: pull request 11306

• save errno value as close(2) might clobber it

  References: pull request 11101