[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq 2.52 release-candidate 1 available.

[Simon Kelley]

It's time to start the release process for another dnsmasq release. The 
usual  mix of minor bugfixes and obscure functionality improvements.

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/release-candidates/dnsmasq-2.52rc1.tar.gz
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/release-candidates/dnsmasq-2.52rc1.tar.lzma

Anyone who can, please give it a whirl, or update the translations.

Changelog below.

Cheers,

Simon.


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version 2.52
             Work around a Linux kernel bug which insists that the
             length of the option passed to setsockopt must be at least
             sizeof(int) bytes, even if we're calling SO_BINDTODEVICE
             and the device name is "lo".  Note that this is fixed
             in kernel 2.6.31, but the workaround is harmless and
             allows earlier kernels to be used. Also fix dnsmasq
             bug which reported the wrong address when this failed.
             Thanks to Fedor for finding this.

             The API for IPv6 PKTINFO changed around Linux kernel
             2.6.14. Workaround the case where dnsmasq is compiled
             against newer headers, but then run on an old kernel:
             necessary for some *WRT distros.

             Re-read the set of network interfaces when re-loading
             /etc/resolv.conf if --bind-interfaces is not set. This
             handles the case that loopback interfaces do not exist
             when dnsmasq is first started.

             Tweak the PXE code to support port 4011. This should
             reduce broadcasts and make things more reliable when other
             servers are around. It also improves inter-operability
             with certain clients.

             Make a pxe-service configuration with no filename or boot
             service type legal: this does a local boot. eg.
             pxe-service=x86PC, "Local boot"

             Be more conservative in detecting "A for A"
             queries. Dnsmasq checks if the name in a type=A query looks
             like a dotted-quad IP address and answers the query itself
             if so, rather than forwarding it. Previously dnsmasq
             relied in the library function inet_addr() to convert
             addresses, and that will accept some things which are
             confusing in this context, like 1.2.3 or even just
             1234. Now we only do A for A processing for four decimal
             numbers delimited by dots.

             A couple of tweaks to fix compilation on Solaris. Thanks
             to Joel Macklow for help with this.

             Another Solaris compilation tweak, needed for Solaris
             2009.06. Thanks to Lee Essen for that.

             Added extract packaging stuff from Lee Essen to
             contrib/Solaris10.

             Increased the default limit on number of leases to 1000
             (from 150). This is mainly a defence against DoS attacks,
             and for the average "one for two class C networks"
             installation, IP address exhaustion does that just as
             well. Making the limit greater than the number of IP
             addresses available in such an installation removes a
             surprise which otherwise can catch people out.

             Removed extraneous trailing space in the value of the
             DNSMASQ_TIME_REMAINING DNSMASQ_LEASE_LENGTH and
             DNSMASQ_LEASE_EXPIRES environment variables. Thanks to
             Gildas Le Nadan for spotting this.

             Provide the network-id tags for a DHCP transaction to
             the lease-change script in the environment variable
             DNSMASQ_TAGS. A good suggestion from Gildas Le Nadan.

             Add support for RFC3925 "Vendor-Identifying Vendor
             Options". The syntax looks like this:
             --dhcp-option=vi-encap:<enterprise number>, .........

             Add support to --dhcp-match to allow matching against
             RFC3925 "Vendor-Identifying Vendor Classes". The syntax
             looks like this:
             --dhcp-match=tag,vi-encap<enterprise number>, <value>

             Add some application specific code to assist in
             implementing the Broadband forum TR069 CPE-WAN
             specification. The details are in contrib/CPE-WAN/README

             Increase the default DNS packet size limit to 4096, as
             recommended by RFC5625 section 4.4.3. This can be
             reconfigured using --edns-packet-max if needed. Thanks to
             Francis Dupont for pointing this out.

             Rewrite query-ids even for DNSSEC signed packets, since
             this is allowed by RFC5625 section 4.5.

             Use getopt_long by default on OS X. It has been supported
             since version 10.3.0. Thanks to Arek Dreyer for spotting
             this.

             Added up-to-date startup configuration for MacOSX/launchd
             in contrib/MacOSX-launchd. Thanks to Arek Dreyer for
             providing this.

             Fix link error when including Dbus but excluding DHCP.
             Thanks to Oschtan for the bug report.