This is a release with many new features. The most notable addition is a new plugin tsig for validating TSIG requests and signing responses. In header plugin a selector of query or response (default) is added for applying the actions. This release also adds lots of enhancements and bug fixes.

Brought to You By

Abirdcfly Alex AndreasHuber-CH Andy Lindeman Chris Narkiewicz Chris O’Haver Christoph Heer Daniel Jolly Konstantin Demin Marius Kimmina Md Sahil Ondřej Benkovský Shane Xie TomasKohout Vancl Yong Tang

Noteworthy Changes

• core: add log listeners for k8s_event plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5451)
• core: log DoH HTTP server error logs in CoreDNS format (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5457)
• core: warn when domain names are not in RFC1035 preferred syntax (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5414)
• plugin/acl: add support for extended DNS errors (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5532)
• plugin/bufsize: do not expand query UDP buffer size if already set to a smaller value (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5602)
• plugin/cache: add cache disable option (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5540)
• plugin/cache: add metadata for wildcard record responses (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5308)
• plugin/cache: add option to adjust SERVFAIL response cache TTL (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5320)
• plugin/cache: correct responses to Authenticated Data requests (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5191)
• plugin/dnstap: add identity and version support for the dnstap plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5555)
• plugin/file: add metadata for wildcard record responses (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5308)
• plugin/forward: enable multiple forward declarations (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5127)
• plugin/forward: health_check needs to normalize a specified domain name (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5543)
• plugin/forward: remove unused coredns_forward_sockets_open metric (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5431)
• plugin/header: add support for query modification (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5556)
• plugin/health: bypass proxy in self health check (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5401)
• plugin/health: don’t go lameduck when reloading (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5472)
• plugin/k8s_external: add support for PTR requests (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5435)
• plugin/k8s_external: resolve headless services (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5505)
• plugin/kubernetes: make kubernetes client log in CoreDNS format (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5461)
• plugin/ready: reset list of readiness plugins on startup (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5492)
• plugin/rewrite: add PTR records to supported types (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5565)
• plugin/rewrite: fix a crash in rewrite plugin when rule type is missing (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5459)
• plugin/rewrite: fix out-of-index issue in rewrite plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5462)
• plugin/rewrite: support min and max TTL values (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5508)
• plugin/trace : make zipkin HTTP reporter more configurable using Corefile (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5460)
• plugin/trace: read trace context info from headers for DOH (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5439)
• plugin/tsig: add new plugin TSIG for validating TSIG requests and signing responses (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4957)