Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2 | PowerDNS Blog

Written by Peter van Dijk | Sep 23, 2014 4:00:00 AM

Warning

Version 3.4.0 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. Additionally, if you are coming from any 3.x version (including 3.3.1), there is a mandatory SQL schema upgrade. Please refer to Section 6, “From PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.1 to 3.4.0” and any relevant sections before it, before deploying this version.

Note

RC2 released September 23rd, 2014

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This is a performance, feature, bugfix and conformity update to 3.3.1 and any earlier version. It contains a huge amount of work by various contributors, to whom we are very grateful.

A list of changes since 3.3.1 follows.

Changes between RC1 and RC2:

commit bb6e54f: document udp6-queries, udp4-queries, add rd-queries, recursion-unanswered metrics & document. Closes ticket 1400.
commit 4a23af7: init script: support DAEMON_ARGS; commit 7e5b3a0: init script: ensure socket dir exists
commit dd930ed: don’t import supermaster ips from other accounts
commit ed3afdf: fall back to central bind if reuseport bind fails; improves ticket 1715
commit 709ca59: GeoIP backend implementation. This is a new backend, still experimental!
commit bf5a484: support EVERY future version of OS X, fixes ticket 1702
commit 4dbaec6: Check for __FreeBSD_kernel__ as per https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2006/03/msg00127.html, fixes ticket 1684;commit 74f389d: __FreeBSD_kernel__ is defined but empty on systems with FreeBSD kernels, breaking compile. Thanks pawal
commit 882ca9d: revert setpgrp changes
commit 2e6bbd8: Catch PDNSException in Signingpiper::helperWorker to avoid abort
commit 0ffd51d: improve error reporting on malformed labels
commit c48dec7: Fix forwarded TSIG message issue
commit dad70f2: skip TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT on platforms that do not have it (like FreeBSD); fixes ticket 1658
commit c7287b6: should fix ticket 1662, reloading while checking for domains that need to be notified in BIND, causing lock
commit 3e67ea8: allow OPT pseudo record type in IXFR query
commit a1caa8b: webserver: htmlescape VERSION and config name
commit df9d980: Remove “log-failed-updates” leftover
commit a1fe72a: Remove unused “soa-serial-offset” option

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