[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.84 - sort and semantic versioning

[Dirk Fieldhouse]

On 01/02/2021 23:55, Simon Kelley wrote:
>....>
> I just committed another tweak, to get eg v2.65test1 and v2.65test11 in
> the correct order.

Maybe the missing description of 2.84 could be added to CHANGELOG and
the resulting commit, exceptionally, re-tagged as 2.84?

Wouldn't this also avoid accidentally acquiring the rc2 tag, so making
tweaks to get-version moot (or postponing the need for a new tagging
scheme, according to taste) for now? Resulting binaries should be
functionally identical, except for pre-tweak builds where the output of
'dnsmasq --version', etc, would differ.

Eg:

--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+version 2.84
+     Fix a regression causing random log messages "failure to send
+     packet" and the loss of the associated DNS queries, after which a
+     retry would succeed, when dnsmasq was under fairly heavy load and
+     was configured for a mixture or IPv4 and IPv6 upstream DNS servers
+     or, possibly, was using --bind-interfaces.
+
+     Housekeeping (2021).
+
+
  version 2.83
       Use the values of --min-port and --max-port in outgoing
       TCP connections to upstream DNS servers.

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sort -k isn't a GNU extension: it's in POSIX.1.

/df

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