DNSControl

Greetings DNS fans!

Release summary:

• NEW PROVIDER: DNSControl now supports websupport.sk (WEBSUPPORT)! Thanks and welcome to @mtmn who joins the project as its maintainer. We look forward to great things!
• AZURE_DNS is more reliable when Azure gets slow.
• dnscontrol init now supports DNSIMPLE and INWX! (List of remaining providers). If your provider is on this list, please volunteer to confirm we got it right.
• HEDNS is much faster now when running integration tests. Thanks, @rblenkinsopp!
• BUGFIX: Avoid panic in ToRR when A/AAAA target is an invalid IP (#4376)
• @cafferata updated docs to reflect Homebrew 6.x's trust model! (#4365)
• And many other improvements.

Thanks to all contributors involved in this release! This is a community project and we couldn't do it without all of your contributions!

Sincerely,
--Tom Limoncelli

Monthly video call!

Everyone is invited to the Monthly DNSControl Community Video Conference Call on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Join whether you are a new user with questions or an experienced developer that wants to discuss DNSControl internals... or anything in between! Meeting details on
GitHub Discussions.

Changelog

Major features:

• 931cb380fdb202c4ff657b55d84ee092baf89a7d: NEW PROVIDER: WebSupport (websupport.sk) DNS provider (#4380) (@mtmn)

Provider-specific changes:

• 182888eb476308067d22c0a02f8867577b0f4fbf: AZURE_DNS: Retry pending-operation conflicts (#4369) (@vatsalyagoel)
• 290207235fdd3b463a91f16db80533acfbf86b58: DNSIMPLE: Update to new NS1 & NS3 nameservers (#4350) (@onlyhavecans)
• f073df43d56177f1887dc220783d5104fda12ea3: DNSIMPLE: support init command (#4282) (@TomOnTime)
• 855a01e98734e12ac3e8f4e8f50c8785e140690c: DOH: Fix duplicate nameservers appearing in list. (#4366) (@jfexyz)
• 8bacbb3fbea424479b807a0e3a87390e75a3def2: HEDNS: Further improve authentication performance (#4359) (@rblenkinsopp)
• 0e948166f45d0139f97d6111d5209a9db4d52f43: HEDNS: Performance improvements (#4348) (@rblenkinsopp)
• 5de73de9a45e5e0d132ff806749054b529a906ef: INWX: support init command (#4293) (@TomOnTime)
• 50ca16e664c0ba6cadecd277bc2b9c0210ebf8dc: PORKBUN: Fix duplicate nameservers in list. (#4367) (@jfexyz)
• e37f0d032fb574e39e233adcafb9191213e92c65: RWTH: Add Support for Domains with DNSSEC Disabled and Migrate to diff2 (#4180) (@psuet)

Documentation:

• e525b9106e0dff87913a97647bd6d307395d1574: DOCS: Homebrew install requires brew trust since Homebrew 5.1.15 (#4365) (@cafferata)

CI/CD:

• 9390084032efbf48feeaa00cc71669f4fbe314df: Build(deps): Bump joi from 17.13.3 to 17.13.4 (#4377) (@dependabot[bot])
• 5eaf231fba92e7716d9b2eef945c215fedf79fb7: CICD: Don't perform provider operations in skipped test groups (#4349) (@rblenkinsopp)

Dependencies:

• 0c75178d5c42b4c877e4e5fa946cf451065467b9: CHORE: Update dependencies (#4360) (@TomOnTime)
• affc9361831b79cd281af5a1adf7f3bbd49e0315: CHORE: Update dependencies (#4382) (@TomOnTime)

Other changes and improvements:

• 36de03689f6c8e1ed36d017cac22504c97510b71: BUGFIX: Avoid panic in ToRR when A/AAAA target is an invalid IP (#4376) (@SAY-5)
• 451b8ff37a771c6ee434ccd462e3b1487899eb87: TYPES: Allow RecordModifier to accept arrays (#4347) (@tresni)

Deprecation warnings

[!WARNING]

• REV() will switch from RFC2317 to RFC4183 in v5.0. This is a breaking change. Warnings are output if your configuration is affected. No date has been announced for v5.0. See https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/top-level-functions/revcompat
• NAMEDOTCOM, OPENSRS and SOFTLAYER need maintainers! These providers have no maintainer. Maintainers respond to PRs and fix bugs in a timely manner, and try to stay on top of protocol changes.

Install

macOS and Linux

Install with Homebrew (recommended)

brew trust --formula dnscontrol/tap/dnscontrol
brew install DNSControl/tap/dnscontrol

Using with Docker

You can use the Docker image from Docker hub or GitHub Container Registry.

docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/dns" ghcr.io/dnscontrol/dnscontrol preview

Anywhere else

Alternatively, you can install the latest binary (or the apt/rpm/deb/archlinux package) from this page.

Or, if you have Go installed, you can install the latest version of DNSControl with the following command:

go install github.com/DNSControl/dnscontrol/v4@main

Update

Update to the latest version depends on how you choose to install dnscontrol on your machine.

Update with Homebrew

brew upgrade DNSControl/tap/dnscontrol

Alternatively, you can grab the latest binary (or the apt/rpm/deb package) from this page.