+++
title = "CoreDNS-1.8.5 Release"
description = "CoreDNS-1.8.5 Release Notes."
tags = ["Release", "1.8.5", "Notes"]
release = "1.8.5"
date = 2021-05-28T07:00:00+00:00
author = "coredns"
+++

This is a rather big release, we now [share plugins among zones in the same server
block](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4593), which should save memory. Various bug fixes in
a bunch of plugins and not one, but two new plugins. A *geoip* plugin that can report **where** the
query came from and a *header* plugin that allows you to fiddle with (some of) the header bits in a
DNS message.

## Brought to You By

Chris O'Haver,
Jeongwook Park,
Licht Takeuchi,
mfleader,
Miek Gieben,
Ondřej Benkovský,
Qasim Sarfraz,
Sven Nebel,
Yong Tang.

## Noteworthy Changes

* core: Add -p for port flag (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4653)
* core: Fix IPv6 case for CIDR format reverse zones (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4652)
* core: Share plugins among zones in the same server block (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4593)
* plugin/cache: Unset AD flag when DO is not set for cache miss (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4736)
* plugin/errors: Add configurable log level to errors plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4718)
* plugin/geoip: Create geoip plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4688)
* plugin/header: Introduce header plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4752)
* plugin/kubernetes: Add NS+hosts records to xfr response. Add coredns service to test data. (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4696)
* plugin/log: Do not log NOERROR in log plugin when response is not available (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4725)
* plugin/log: Fix closing of codeblock (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4680)
* plugin/metrics: When no response is written, fallback to status of next plugin in prometheus plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4727)
* plugin/route53: Fix Route53 plugin cannot retrieve ECS Task Role (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4669)
* plugin/secondary: Doc updates (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4686)
* plugin/secondary: Retry initial transfer until successful (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4663)
* plugin/trace: Fix rcode tag in case of no response (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4742)
* plugin/trace: Publish trace id as metadata from trace plugin (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4749)
* plugin/trace: Trace plugin can mark traces with error tag (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/4720)