We are pleased to announce the [release](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.4.0)
of CoreDNS-1.4.0! Our first release after we became a graduated project in
[CNCF](https://www.cncf.io/).
Deprecation notice for the *next* release:
* [*auto*](/plugins/auto) will deprecate **TIMEOUT** and recommends the use of RELOAD ([2516](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2516).
* [*auto*](/plugins/file) and [*file*](/plugins/auto) will deprecate NO_RELOAD and recommends the use of RELOAD set to 0 ([2536](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/2536).
* [*health*](/plugins/health) will revert back to report process level health without plugin
status. A new *ready* plugin will make sure plugins have at least completed their startup
sequence.
* The [*proxy*](/plugins/proxy) will be moved to an external repository and as such be deprecated
from the default set of plugin; use the [*forward*](/plugins/forward) as a replacement.