Coredns 1.6.6

+++ title = "CoreDNS-1.6.6 Release" description = "CoreDNS-1.6.6 Release Notes." tags = ["Release", "1.6.6", "Notes"] release = "1.6.6" date = 2019-12-11T10:00:00+00:00 author = "coredns" +++

The CoreDNS team has released CoreDNS-1.6.6.

A fairly small release that polishes various plugins and fixes a bunch of bugs.

Security

The github.com/miekg/dns dependency has been updated to v1.1.25 to fix a DNS related security vulnerability (https://github.com/miekg/dns/issues/1043).

Plugins

A new plugin bufsize has been added that prevents IP fragmentation for the DNS Flag Day 2020 and to deal with DNS vulnerabilities.

• cache added a serve_stale option similar to unbound's serve_expired.
• sign fix signing of authoritative data that we are not authoritative for.
• transfer fixed calling wg.Add in main goroutine to avoid race conditons.

Brought to You By

Chris O'Haver Gonzalo Paniagua Javier Guangming Wang Kohei Yoshida Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters Miek Gieben Yong Tang Zou Nengren

Noteworthy Changes

• plugin/bufsize: A new bufsize plugin to prevent IP fragmentation and DNS Flag Day 2020 (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3401)
• plugin/transfer: Fixed calling wg.Add in main goroutine to avoid race conditions (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3433)
• plugin/pprof: Fixed a reloading issue (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3454)
• plugin/health: Fixed a reloading issue (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3473)
• plugin/redy: Fixed a reloading issue (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3473)
• plugin/cache: Added a serve_stale option similar to unbound's serve_expired (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3468)
• plugin/sign: Fix signing of authoritative data (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3479)
• pkg/reuseport: Move the core server listening functions to a new package (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3455)