The CoreDNS team has released CoreDNS-1.8.1.

This release fixes a bunch of bugs, and adds a (very) simple new plugin called local to answer “local” queries. Bunch of work in the kubernetes plugin to add support for new upstream features.

If using the kubernetes plugin for a Kubernetes cluster >= 1.19, CoreDNS must be granted list and watch access to endpointslices.

Brought to You By

Blake Ryan, Bob, Chotiwat Chawannakul, Chris O’Haver, Guangwen Feng, Gunadhya, Jiang Biao, Johnny Bergström, luanphantiki, Matt Kulka, mgugger, Miek Gieben, Serge, sschepens, Yong Tang, ZouYu.

Noteworthy Changes

• plugin/{clouddns,azure,route53}: Use cancelable contexts for cloud provider plugin refreshes (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4226)
• plugin/azure: Iterate over all RecordSetListResultPage Pages (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4351)
• core: custom DoH request validation (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4329)
• pkg/tls: remove InsecureSkipVerify=true flag (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4265)
• plugin/azure: return FQDN as MNAME in SOA record (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4286)
• plugin/cache Prevent race from prefetching (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4368)
• plugin/dnssec: Change hash key input (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4372)
• plugin/dnstap: remove config struct (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4258)
• plugin/dnstap: remove custom encoder (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4242)
• plugin/file: Use NXDOMAIN response if CNAME target is NXDOMAIN (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4303)
• plugin/file: document wrong behavior in lookup fox Apex (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4376)
• plugin/file: guard against cname loops (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4387)
• plugin/forward: respond with REFUSED when max_concurrent is exceeded (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4326)
• plugin/forward: HC every 0.5 seconds, do not do exponential backoff (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4371)
• plugin/health: Fix health check endpoint (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4231)
• plugin/kubernetes: Add support for dual stack ClusterIP Services (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4339)
• plugin/kubernetes: Fix dns programming duration metric (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4255)
• plugin/kubernetes: Fix NPE issue (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4338)
• plugin/kubernetes: Watch EndpointSlices (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4209)
• plugin/local: add local plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4262)
• plugin/trace: Fix zipkin json_v2 (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4180)
• plugin/transfer: Fix go-routine leak (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4380)