Yuri Schaeffer
2017-02-22 09:53:07 UTC
Dear Community,
No issues with the RC1 have come up in the last 1.5 weeks so hereby we
announce the OpenDNSSEC 2.1.0 release.
OpenDNSSEC 2.1 development was focused on improving the daemon code for
the Signer and Enforcer. As such it is much more a steady incremental
improvement rather than revolutionary. With this style of development we
hope that a migration from 1.4, for which an end-of-life is to be given,
is facilitated.
Many of these changes are not directly visible but improve the handling
and responsiveness or unify the Signer and Enforcer code bases. These
improvements are not all mentioned in the issue list below because of
their detail. Attention has been given to different roll-over methods
and we now test fully with SoftHSMv2.
MIGRATION
There are no migration steps needed from 2.0.x to 2.1.0. Version 1.4.10
can be migrated directly to 2.1.0 (see MIGRATION text file in tarball).
Any version prior to 1.4.10 should upgrade to 1.4.10 first.
FEATURES
* OPENDNSSEC-779: The Enforcer will now have an 'enforce' and
'signconf' task scheduled per zone. 'Resalt' tasks are scheduled per
policy. This improves performance and parallelism since no longer all
zones need to be evaluated for work to be done. Further parallelism
improvements in the Enforcer are on our roadmap.
* OPENDNSSEC-681: When daemonizing the Signer and Enforcer daemons fork
to the background. Since they are then no longer able to print
messages to the console start up problems are harder to debug. Now,
after the fork() call the parent process will wait for the daemon to
signal successful start and will print relevant error messages in
case it doesn't.
* OPENDNSSEC-479: On sending notifies and initiating zone transfers the
signer will now use the first interface mentioned in the listener
section of conf.xml. This way the interface selection is not left to
the OS, which could cause outgoing packets have an unexpected source
address if multiple interfaces have a route to the destination
address.
* OPENDNSSEC-759: The Signer doesn't need to access the HSM for every
zone during start up any more. This is done later by the worker
threads. This way the signer starts quicker and is earlier available
for user input.
* OPENDNSSEC-450: Implement support for ECDSA P-256, P-384 and GOST.
To be able to use this your HSM should have support as well.
SoftHSMv2 can be compiled with support for these.
* OPENDNSSEC-503: When adding a new zone to OpenDNSSEC the Enforcer is
a little less conservative and will add signatures and keys to the
zone in one go. Thereby mimicking OpenDNSSEC 1.4. Effectively new
zones are earlier fully signed by the TTL of the DNSKEY set.
* A bash autocompletion script is included in contrib for ods-enforcer
and ods-signer. Commands, parameters, zone names and key identifiers
can be autocompleted from the command line.
FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS
* OPENDNSSEC-530: The <Interval> tag for the Enforcer in conf.xml has
been unused and deprecated in 2.0. since 2.1 this tag is no longer
allowed to be specified.
* Show help for ods-enforcer-db-setup with -h or --help
* OPENDNSSEC-836: If the listening port for Signer is not set in
conf.xml file, the default value "15354" is used.
* OPENDNSSEC-864: ods-signer didn't print help. Also --version and
--socket options where not processed.
* OPENDNSSEC-858: OpenDNSSEC 2.0 did print "completed in x seconds" to
stderr for enforcer commands. This line is removed.
* SUPPORT-208: Running 'ods-enforcer key export' included a comment
string with key properties. This is dropped to aid parsing.
* OPENDNSSEC-552: By default 'ods-enforcer key export --ds' included
the SHA1 version of the DS. SHA1 use is discouraged in favour of
SHA256. To get the SHA1 DS use the --sha1 flag. This flag is
immediately deprecated and will be removed from future versions of
OpenDNSSEC.
* OPENDNSSEC-465: ods-kaspcheck warns about algorithm mismatch between
keys.
* When a zone is deleted the Enforcer now properly removes all tasks
associated with that zone from its task queue.
* In the key section of the kasp.xml file, the algorithm length is no
longer optional. For ECDSA and GHOST keys this value is ignored.
* The Enforcer and the Signer now have a HSM key cache shared between
their threads so no longer every thread needs to iterate over all
keys, which can potentially be very slow for some HSMs.
* OPENDNSSEC-721: Our integration testing environment now uses
SoftHSMv2 instead of version one.
* OPENDNSSEC-844: warning when lifetime of key is smaller than
signature validity time.
* OPENDNSSEC-311: Installation can now set the right permissions on
used files for a configurable user/group when not running OpenDNSSEC
as root.
* OPENDNSSEC-593: More gracefully cope when zone configured for signer
but signconf not yet available.
* OPENDNSSEC-600: Log critical error if key is not inserted due to
policy parameters misconfiguration.
* OPENDNSSEC-694: Domain Names in the value/answer part of records
(e.g. named referred to by PTR records) where mapped to lowercase.
* OPENDNSSEC-803 : Extensive logging on aborting the application.
BUGS FIXED
* OPENDNSSEC-778: Double NSEC3PARAM record after resalt.
* SUPPORT-29: signer clear <zone> would assert when signconf wasn't
read yet.
* OPENDNSSEC-869: ds-seen command did not give error on badly formatted
keytag.
* OPENDNSSEC-849: Crash on free of part of IXFR structure.
* OPENDNSSEC-601: signer and enforcer working dir would not properly
fallback to default when not specified.
* OPENDNSSEC-689: Failure of daemon during start up is not logged.
* OPENDNSSEC-850: Date of new transition could temporarily be incorrect.
* OPENDNSSEC-851: Change in verbosity level not immediately propagated.
* Various memory leaks, resolving compiler warnings, and static code
analysis.
* Libxml2 clean up improvements (Thanks he32).
Download:
* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/opendnssec-2.1.0.tar.gz
* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/opendnssec-2.1.0.tar.gz.sig
* Checksum SHA256:
0ec6094fd4cded58bcff872b251f1b004876b67c6650c38a4875018a18e38545
Kind regards,
The OpenDNSSEC team
No issues with the RC1 have come up in the last 1.5 weeks so hereby we
announce the OpenDNSSEC 2.1.0 release.
OpenDNSSEC 2.1 development was focused on improving the daemon code for
the Signer and Enforcer. As such it is much more a steady incremental
improvement rather than revolutionary. With this style of development we
hope that a migration from 1.4, for which an end-of-life is to be given,
is facilitated.
Many of these changes are not directly visible but improve the handling
and responsiveness or unify the Signer and Enforcer code bases. These
improvements are not all mentioned in the issue list below because of
their detail. Attention has been given to different roll-over methods
and we now test fully with SoftHSMv2.
MIGRATION
There are no migration steps needed from 2.0.x to 2.1.0. Version 1.4.10
can be migrated directly to 2.1.0 (see MIGRATION text file in tarball).
Any version prior to 1.4.10 should upgrade to 1.4.10 first.
FEATURES
* OPENDNSSEC-779: The Enforcer will now have an 'enforce' and
'signconf' task scheduled per zone. 'Resalt' tasks are scheduled per
policy. This improves performance and parallelism since no longer all
zones need to be evaluated for work to be done. Further parallelism
improvements in the Enforcer are on our roadmap.
* OPENDNSSEC-681: When daemonizing the Signer and Enforcer daemons fork
to the background. Since they are then no longer able to print
messages to the console start up problems are harder to debug. Now,
after the fork() call the parent process will wait for the daemon to
signal successful start and will print relevant error messages in
case it doesn't.
* OPENDNSSEC-479: On sending notifies and initiating zone transfers the
signer will now use the first interface mentioned in the listener
section of conf.xml. This way the interface selection is not left to
the OS, which could cause outgoing packets have an unexpected source
address if multiple interfaces have a route to the destination
address.
* OPENDNSSEC-759: The Signer doesn't need to access the HSM for every
zone during start up any more. This is done later by the worker
threads. This way the signer starts quicker and is earlier available
for user input.
* OPENDNSSEC-450: Implement support for ECDSA P-256, P-384 and GOST.
To be able to use this your HSM should have support as well.
SoftHSMv2 can be compiled with support for these.
* OPENDNSSEC-503: When adding a new zone to OpenDNSSEC the Enforcer is
a little less conservative and will add signatures and keys to the
zone in one go. Thereby mimicking OpenDNSSEC 1.4. Effectively new
zones are earlier fully signed by the TTL of the DNSKEY set.
* A bash autocompletion script is included in contrib for ods-enforcer
and ods-signer. Commands, parameters, zone names and key identifiers
can be autocompleted from the command line.
FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS
* OPENDNSSEC-530: The <Interval> tag for the Enforcer in conf.xml has
been unused and deprecated in 2.0. since 2.1 this tag is no longer
allowed to be specified.
* Show help for ods-enforcer-db-setup with -h or --help
* OPENDNSSEC-836: If the listening port for Signer is not set in
conf.xml file, the default value "15354" is used.
* OPENDNSSEC-864: ods-signer didn't print help. Also --version and
--socket options where not processed.
* OPENDNSSEC-858: OpenDNSSEC 2.0 did print "completed in x seconds" to
stderr for enforcer commands. This line is removed.
* SUPPORT-208: Running 'ods-enforcer key export' included a comment
string with key properties. This is dropped to aid parsing.
* OPENDNSSEC-552: By default 'ods-enforcer key export --ds' included
the SHA1 version of the DS. SHA1 use is discouraged in favour of
SHA256. To get the SHA1 DS use the --sha1 flag. This flag is
immediately deprecated and will be removed from future versions of
OpenDNSSEC.
* OPENDNSSEC-465: ods-kaspcheck warns about algorithm mismatch between
keys.
* When a zone is deleted the Enforcer now properly removes all tasks
associated with that zone from its task queue.
* In the key section of the kasp.xml file, the algorithm length is no
longer optional. For ECDSA and GHOST keys this value is ignored.
* The Enforcer and the Signer now have a HSM key cache shared between
their threads so no longer every thread needs to iterate over all
keys, which can potentially be very slow for some HSMs.
* OPENDNSSEC-721: Our integration testing environment now uses
SoftHSMv2 instead of version one.
* OPENDNSSEC-844: warning when lifetime of key is smaller than
signature validity time.
* OPENDNSSEC-311: Installation can now set the right permissions on
used files for a configurable user/group when not running OpenDNSSEC
as root.
* OPENDNSSEC-593: More gracefully cope when zone configured for signer
but signconf not yet available.
* OPENDNSSEC-600: Log critical error if key is not inserted due to
policy parameters misconfiguration.
* OPENDNSSEC-694: Domain Names in the value/answer part of records
(e.g. named referred to by PTR records) where mapped to lowercase.
* OPENDNSSEC-803 : Extensive logging on aborting the application.
BUGS FIXED
* OPENDNSSEC-778: Double NSEC3PARAM record after resalt.
* SUPPORT-29: signer clear <zone> would assert when signconf wasn't
read yet.
* OPENDNSSEC-869: ds-seen command did not give error on badly formatted
keytag.
* OPENDNSSEC-849: Crash on free of part of IXFR structure.
* OPENDNSSEC-601: signer and enforcer working dir would not properly
fallback to default when not specified.
* OPENDNSSEC-689: Failure of daemon during start up is not logged.
* OPENDNSSEC-850: Date of new transition could temporarily be incorrect.
* OPENDNSSEC-851: Change in verbosity level not immediately propagated.
* Various memory leaks, resolving compiler warnings, and static code
analysis.
* Libxml2 clean up improvements (Thanks he32).
Download:
* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/opendnssec-2.1.0.tar.gz
* https://dist.opendnssec.org/source/opendnssec-2.1.0.tar.gz.sig
* Checksum SHA256:
0ec6094fd4cded58bcff872b251f1b004876b67c6650c38a4875018a18e38545
Kind regards,
The OpenDNSSEC team