Maintenance Blog

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the 85th release of Net::DNS which will be version 1.08.

This release has a single new feature that enables registering a handler for UPDATE requests in custom name servers.

Makefile.PL will more actively try to detect ineffective install locations due to existing Net::DNS installs earlier in the search path, and will report more clearly about this specific situation.

Besides this, we’ve decided to finally drop support for Perl versions before 5.6. Supporting only 5.6 and later allowed for a major (early) spring-clean of all the pre-5.6 workarounds and outdated language features and makes the code base easier to read, understand and maintain.

For a complete overview see the Changes file.

Please review this candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual release will follow Monday the 20th of February 2017.

Regression test results: https://www.net-dns.org/regression