[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: release candidate dnsmasq-2.60rc1

[Simon Kelley]

The DHCPv6 code is looking pretty good now (thanks all testers).

So good, in fact, that I think it's time to start moving gently towards
a release. I've just created 2.60rc1, available at

<http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/release-candidates/dnsmasq-2.60rc1.tar.gz>

Even if DHCPv6 is not for you, lots of existing code was touched in
re-factoring and generalisation, so testers are needed to look for
regressions.

Translators, please do your stuff too.

Changelog appended below.


Cheers,

Simon.



version 2.60
            Fix compilation problem in Mac OS X Lion. Thanks to Olaf
            Flebbe for the patch.

            Fix DHCP when using --listen-address with an IP address
            which is not the primary address of an interface.

            Add --dhcp-client-update option.

            Add Lua integration. Dnsmasq can now execute a DHCP
            lease-change script written in Lua. This needs to be
            enabled at compile time by setting HAVE_LUASCRIPT in
            src/config.h or running "make COPTS=-DHAVE_LUASCRIPT"
            Thanks to Jan-Piet Mens for the idea and proof-of-concept
            implementation.

            Tidied src/config.h to distinguish between
            platform-dependent compile-time options which are selected
            automatically, and builder-selectable compile time
            options. Document the latter better, and describe how to
            set them from the make command line.

            Tidied up IPPROTO_IP/SOL_IP (and IPv6 equivalent)
            confusion. IPPROTO_IP works everywhere now.

            Set TOS on DHCP sockets, this improves things on busy
            wireless networks. Thanks to Dave Taht for the patch.

            Determine VERSION automatically based on git magic:
            release tags or hash values.

            Improve start-up speed when reading large hosts files
            containing many distinct addresses.

            Fix problem if dnsmasq is started without the stdin,
            stdout and stderr file descriptors open. This can manifest
            itself as 100% CPU use. Thanks to Chris Moore for finding
            this.

            Fix shell-scripting bug in bld/pkg-wrapper. Thanks to
            Mark Mitchell for the patch.

            Allow the TFP server or boot server in --pxe-service, to
            be a domain name instead of an IP address. This allows for
            round-robin to multiple servers, in the same way as
            --dhcp-boot. A good suggestion from Cristiano Cumer.

            Support BUILDDIR variable in the Makefile. Allows builds
            for multiple archs from the same source tree with eg.
            make BUILDDIR=linux             (relative to dnsmasq tree)
            make BUILDDIR=/tmp/openbsd      (absolute path)
            If BUILDDIR is not set, compilation happens in the src
            directory, as before. Suggestion from Mark Mitchell.

            Support DHCPv6. Support is there for the sort of things
            the existing v4 server does, including tags, options,
            static addresses and relay support. Missing is prefix
            delegation, which is probably not required in the dnsmasq
            niche, and an easy way to accept prefix delegations from
            an upstream DHCPv6 server, which is. Future plans include
            support for DHCPv6 router option and MAC address option
            (to make selecting clients by MAC address work like IPv4).
            These will be added as the standards mature.
            This code has been tested, but this is the first release,
            so don't bet the farm on it just yet. Many thanks to all
            testers who have got it this far.

            Support IPv6 router advertisements. This is a
            simple-minded implementation, aimed at providing the
            vestigial RA needed to go alongside IPv6. Is picks up
            configuration from the DHCPv6 conf, and should just need
            enabling with --enable-ra.