This release fixes a major performance regression introduced in 1.11.0 that affected DoT (TLS) forwarded connections. It also adds a new option to dnstap to add metadata to the dnstap extra field, and fixes a config parsing bug in cache.

Brought to You By

Chris O’Haver, P. Radha Krishna, Yong Tang, Yuheng, Zhizhen He

Noteworthy Changes

• Revert “plugin/forward: Continue waiting after receiving malformed responses (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6014)" (#6270)
• plugin/dnstap: add support for “extra” field in payload (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6226)
• plugin/cache: fix keepttl parsing (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/6250)