Changes for version v5.0.0 - 2024-03-18

  • Release information
    • Translations have not been fully updated in this release. They will be updated in an upcoming fix release.
  • Breaking change
    • Removes deprecated features (#1309)
  • Features
    • Adds global cache based on Redis (experimental) (#1201, #1327)
    • Adds implementation of test case Zone11 (SPF test) (#1287)
    • Removes implementation of Basic00 (#1308)
  • Fixes
    • Updates implementation of test case Syntax06 (#1245)
    • Refactors code (#1256, #1294, #1293, #1296, #1297, #1302)
    • Improves documentation in Test modules (#1277)
    • Updates implementation of test case Delegation01 (#1290)
    • Fixes message tag log level for test case Zone08 (#1295)
    • Updates unit tests for test cases Consistency05 and Consistency06 (#1303)
    • Updates implementation of test case DNSSEC03 (#1304)
    • Updates implementation of test case Nameserver15 (#1306)
    • Documents and updates method '_emit_log()' in all Test modules #1310)
    • Corrects ASN lookup sources (#1311)
    • Adds Mail::SPF in 2nd stage in Dockerfile (#1317)
    • Updates translations (#1324)

Documentation

The Zonemaster Test Engine

Modules

A tool to check the quality of a DNS zone
do lookups of ASNs for IP addresses
module holding constants used in Test modules
class representing DNS names
base class for Zonemaster::Engine exceptions
class that holds Zonemaster::Engine::Logger::Entry objects.
module for single log entries
Class implementing arrays that lazily looks up name server addresses from their names
object representing a DNS nameserver
shared caches for nameserver objects
local shared caches for nameserver objects
global shared caches for nameserver objects
utility functions for names normalization
normalization error class
wrapping object for Zonemaster::LDNS::Packet objects
A simple system for configuring Zonemaster Engine
recursive resolver for Zonemaster
Module implementing methods to find, load and execute all Test modules
Module implementing tests focused on IP addresses of name servers
Module implementing tests focused on basic zone functionality
Module implementing tests focused on name servers reachability
Module implementing tests focused on name servers responses consistency
Module implementing tests focused on DNSSEC
Module implementing tests focused on zone delegation
Module implementing tests focused on the properties of a name server
Module implementing tests focused on validating the syntax of host names and other data
Module implementing tests focused on the DNS zone content, such as SOA and MX records
Methods common to Test Specification used in test modules
Version 2 of Methods common to Test Specifications used in Test modules
translation support for Zonemaster
utility functions for other Zonemaster modules
Object representing a DNS zone