[Pdns-users] Heading up to PowerDNS Authoritative Server release 3.0: please check your open tickets

[bert hubert]

Dear PowerDNS Community,

The big 3.0 release is coming real close, and it is going to be a big one.
For the 'work in progress' release notes, please see
http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#changelog-auth-3-0

Today around 21 tickets on the issue tracker were either closed or resolved.
Most tickets are filed anonymously, so if you entered a ticket, you probably
did not receive feedback.

So, please check the following list:
http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/timeline?from=03%2F22%2F11&daysback=1&ticket=on&update=Update
.. to see what happened to your ticket, and if you agree with the result.

For your convenience, here is a summary:

Ticket #217 (pdns 2.9.22-rc2 cs1316 bindbackend crash upon adding an out-of-zone record) closed by ahu
worksforme: Loads was changed there, and it hasn't been reported anymore. We took out 


Ticket #220 (Inappropriate case-senstive check on NOTIFY) closed by ahu
fixed: sqlite was case sensitive, we fixed that. Should not be a problem anymore.

Ticket #149 (zone2sql named.conf parsing error) closed by ahu
wontfix: While we could fix this, it is suggested to comment out such troublesome 


Ticket #309 (make godbcbackend compile again) closed by ahu
fixed: Merged in CS2087. Thanks!

Ticket #265 (multiple master support does not work in the case the master uses NOTIFY) closed by ahu
fixed: This has been fixed in 3.0 - any one of the masters is accepted. Thanks.

Ticket #189 (Using new statement prepare question for sqlite3 backend) closed by ahu
fixed: Implemented in 2086, thanks!

Ticket #96 (PowerDNS doesn't honor RFC1982) closed by ahu
fixed: It does now! Since cs 2077. Thanks.

Ticket #322 (pdns instance crashes) closed by ahu
invalid: Probably due to database overload.

Ticket #317 (Logging time switches to UTC with LDAP backend) closed by ahu
duplicate: dup of 313

Ticket #313 (ldapbackend sets TZ to UTC but should not) closed by ahu
wontfix: we are currently unable to devote time to the LDAP backend.

Ticket #260 (LDAP backend doens't try to reestablish connection once lost) closed by ahu
wontfix: We are currently unable to fix LDAP issues.

Ticket #183 (Changing of default table names in config file) closed by ahu
wontfix: This means everybody will have to change his customized sql statements, 


Ticket #231 (Patch to support calling mySQL stored procedures) closed by ahu
fixed: Applied in cs 2084, thanks!

Ticket #298 (AXFR query fail with LDAP backend) closed by ahu
wontfix: We are unable to address LDAP issues at this time.

Ticket #318 (Master (Notify) functionality with ldap backend) closed by ahu
wontfix: We are unable to enhance the LDAP backend.

Ticket #323 (powerdns authoritative server with ldap backend hangs when ldap server is ...) closed by ahu
wontfix: We are unable to fix LDAP issues.

Ticket #321 (@ not recognised as shorthand for "this domain" in MX) closed by ahu
fixed: fixed in 3.0

Ticket #190 (Show detailed error information an error happens in sqlite3 backend) closed by ahu
fixed: Closed in commit 2083, thanks!

Ticket #288 (recursor fails to restart with old config setting nofork=yes) closed by ahu
wontfix: While I appreciate the sentiment, this would lead to heaps of 


Ticket #258 (powerdns recursor fails to stop due invalid controlsocket when fork=yes) closed by ahu
invalid: --fork is gone in recent versions

Ticket #305 (Disable a zone / domain / record) closed by ahu
wontfix: To do this, please customize the SQL queries to have an 'active' field.

Kind regards,

Bert Hubert