[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq 2.39

[Simon Kelley]

Dnsmasq 2.39 is now available at

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.39.tar.gz


Changelog from last version:

             Apply patch from Mike Baker/OpenWRT to ensure that names
             like "localhost." in /etc/hosts with trailing period
             are treated as fully-qualified.

             Tolerate and ignore spaces around commas in the
             configuration file in all circumstances. Note that this
             may change the meaning of a few existing config files, for
             instance
             txt-record=mydomain.com, string
             would have a leading space in the string before, and now
             will not. To get the old behaviour back, use quotes:
             txt-record=mydomain.com," string"

             /a is no longer a valid escape in quoted strings.

             Added symbolic DHCP option names. Instead of
             dhcp-option = 3, 1.2.3.4
             it is now possible to do
             dhcp-option = option:router, 1.2.3.4
             To see the list of known DHCP options, use the
             command "dnsmasq --help dhcp"
             Thanks to Luigi Rizzo for a patch and good work on this.

             Overhauled the log code so that logging can be asynchronous;
             dnsmasq then no longer blocks waiting for the syslog()
             library call. This is important on systems where syslog
             is being used to log over the network (and therefore doing
             DNS lookups) and syslog is using dnsmasq as its DNS
             server. Having dnsmasq block awaiting syslog under
             such circumstances can lead to syslog and dnsmasq
             deadlocking. The new behaviour is enabled with a new
              --log-async flag, which can also be used to tune the
             queue length. Paul Chambers found and diagnosed
             this trap for the unwary. He also did much testing of
             the solution along with Carlos Carvalho.

             --log-facility can now take a file-name instead of a
             facility name. When this is done, dnsmasq logs to the
             file and not via syslog. (Failures early in startup,
             whilst reading configuration, will still go to syslog,
             and syslog is used as a log-of-last-resort if the file
             cannot be written.)

             Added --log-dhcp flag. Suggestion from Carlos Carvalho.

             Made BINDIR, MANDIR and LOCALEDIR independently
             over-rideable in the makefile. Suggestion from Thomas
             Klausner.

             Added 127.0.0.0/8 and 169.254.0.0/16 to the address
             ranges affected by --bogus-priv. Thanks to  Paul
             Chambers for the patch.

             Fixed failure of TFTP server with --listen-address. Thanks
             to William Dinkel for the bug report.

             Added --dhcp-circuitid and --dhcp-remoteid for RFC3046
             relay agent data matching.

             Added --dhcp-subscrid for RFC3993 subscriber-id relay
             agent data matching.

             Correctly garbage-collect connections when upstream
             servers go away as a result of DBus transactions.

             Allow absolute paths for TFTP transfers even when
             --tftp-root is set, as long as the path matches the root,
             so /var/ftp/myfile is OK with tftp-root=/var/ftp.
             Thanks for Thomas Mizzi for the patch.

             Updated Spanish translation - thanks to Chris Chatham.

             Updated French translation - thanks to Gildas Le Nadan.

             Added to example conf file example of routing PTR queries
             for a subnet to a different nameserver. Suggestion from
             Jon Nicholson.

             Added --interface-name option. This provides a facility
             to add a domain name with a dynamic IP address taken from
             the address of a local network interface. Useful for
             networks with dynamic IPs.



Cheers,

Simon.