coredns/notes/coredns-1.6.8.md

+++ title = "CoreDNS-1.6.8 Release" description = "CoreDNS-1.6.8 Release Notes." tags = ["Release", "1.6.8", "Notes"] release = "1.6.8" date = 2020-03-06T10:00:00+00:00 author = "coredns" +++

The CoreDNS team has released CoreDNS-1.6.8.

Again a small release with some nice improvements in the forward plugin, and overall polish. See "Noteworthy Changes" for more detail.

Note that 1.7.0 will contain a bunch of backward incompatible changes: the federation plugin will be full removed and the metrics name will be changed to inline with the naming recommendation from the Prometheus project.

Brought to You By

Andy Bursavich, Chris O'Haver, Christian Tryti, Kohei Yoshida, LongKB, Miek Gieben, Ricky S, Sylvain Rabot, Zou Nengren.

Noteworthy Changes

• plugin/cache: explain drop metric (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3706)
• plugin/forward: Add configuration flag to set if RecursionDesired should be set on health checks (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3679)
• plugin/hosts: Modifies NODATA handling (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3536)
• plugin/kubernetes: fix metadata (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3642)
• plugin/kubernetes: Return all records with matching IP for reverse queries (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3687)
• plugin/metrics: Add query type to latency as well (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3685)
• plugin/pkg/up: Make default intervals shorter (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3651)
• plugins/forward: Add max_concurrent option (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3640)
• plugn/forward: Add exponential backoff to healthcheck (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3643)