This release fixes some bugs, and adds some new features including:

• Corrected architecture labels in multi-arch image manifest
• A new plugin timeouts that allows configuration of server listener timeout durations
• acl can drop queries as an action
• template supports creating responses with extended DNS errors
• New weighted policy in loadbalance
• Option to serve original record TTLs from cache

Brought to You By

Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Ben Kaplan, Chris O’Haver, Gabor Dozsa, Grant Spence, Kumiko as a Service, LAMRobinson, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Ondřej Benkovský, Rich, Stephen Kitt, Yash Singh, Yong Tang, rsclarke, sanyo0714

Noteworthy Changes

• plugin/timeouts - Allow ability to configure listening server timeouts (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5784)
• plugin/acl: adding ability to drop queries (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5722)
• plugin/template : add support for extended DNS errors (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5659)
• plugin/kubernetes: error NXDOMAIN for TXT lookups (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5737)
• plugin/kubernetes: dont match external services when endpoint is specified (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5734)
• plugin/k8s_external: Fix rcode for headless services (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5657)
• plugin/edns: remove truncating of question section on bad EDNS version (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5787)
• plugin/dnstap: Fix behavior when multiple dnstap plugins specified (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5773)
• plugin/cache: cache now uses source query DNSSEC option for upstream refresh (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5671)
• Workaround for incorrect architecture (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5691)
• plugin/loadbalance: Add weighted policy (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5662)
• plugin/cache: Add keepttl option (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5879)
• plugin/forward: Fix dnstap for forwarded request/response (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/5890)