This is a release with bug fixes and some new features added. Starting with 1.9.0 the minimal required go version will be 1.17. Wildcard queries are no longer supported by the kubernetes plugin.

Brought to You By

Chris O’Haver, Ondřej Benkovský, Tomas Hulata, Yong Tang, xuweiwei

Noteworthy Changes

• plugin/kubernetes: remove wildcard query functionality (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5019)
• Health-checks should respect force_tcp (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5109)
• plugin/prometheus: Write rcode properly to the metrics (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5126)
• plugin/template: Persist truncated state to client if CNAME lookup response is truncated (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4713)