[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: knot-1.6.3-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5812
2015-04-09 04:56:35
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Name        : knot
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.knot-dns.cz
Summary     : An authoritative DNS daemon
Description :
Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server implementation.

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Update Information:

new upstream release
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr  8 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.3-1
- new upstream release:
  + fix: performance drop for NSEC-signed zones
  + fix: proper handling of TCP short-writes
  + fix: possible out-of-bound reads in zone parser and packet parser
  + feature: CDS and CDNSKEY support in zone parser
  + improvement: add defaults for TCP config options into documentation
  + improvement: detailed error message if zone reload fails
* Thu Feb 19 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.2-1
- new upstream release:
  + new config option 'max-tcp-clients'
  + fix possible resource leak when terminating inactive TCP clients
* Tue Jan 20 2015 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.1-3
- service file changes:
  + remove dependency on network.target
  + remove bounding capabilities (breaks reload)
* Sat Dec 13 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.1-2
- new upstream release:
  + DNSSEC: support for Single-Type Signing Scheme
  + fix: journal file growing over configured limit
- service file changes:
  + run as 'knot' user and group
  + set security bounding capabilities
  + change Type to 'notify'
* Thu Oct 30 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.0-2
- default config: run server as unprivileged user
- service file: remove useless startup dependencies
- service file: add bounding capabilities
* Thu Oct 23 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.0-1
- new upstream release:
  + support for persistent zone timers (expire, refresh, and flush)
  + DNSSEC: RFC-compliant processing of letter case in RDATA domain names
  + EDNS: return minimal response for queries with unsupported version
  + EDNS: fix interpretation of Extended RCODE
  + transfers: fix forced zone retransfer
  + timers: properly expire zone when transfer is being refused by master
* Mon Sep 15 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.5.3-1
- new upstream release:
  + fix crash on specific incoming IXFR message
  + fix rare synchronization error during server reload
  + fix crash in reverse record synthesis module on DNSSEC signed zones
  + fix message ID and opcode for AXFR-style IXFR responses
  + fix sending of large responses to remote control commands
* Mon Sep  8 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.5.2-1
- new upstream release:
  + CVE-2014-0486: remote crash using crafted DNS message
  + transfers: do not refuse AXFR answers to IXFR queries
  + fix storing of hash character '#' in zone file
* Tue Aug 19 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.5.1-1
- new upstream release:
  + logging: unified logging messages
  + logging: support for systemd journal
  + DDNS: processing updates in bulk
  + DDNS: fix signing of responses with TSIG
  + DDNS: fix prerequisites checking in apex node
  + DNSSEC: fix domain names conversion to canonical format before signing
  + DNSSEC: semantic checks for signing keys
  + EDNS: fix inclusion of OPT record into some packets
  + knsupdate: fix use of zone origin for deletions
* Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.0-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul 10 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.5.0-1
- update to 1.5.0
  + reimplemented DDNS forwarding
  + transfer sizes logged in bytes
  + logging of outgoing/incoming NOTIFY messages
  + zone flush planning after bootstrap
  + DDNS signing changes freeing
  + knotc key handling
- update to 1.5.0-rc2
  + edns-client-subnet support in kdig
  + optional asynchronous startup (config 'asynchronous-start')
  + preempt task queue for faster reload
  + lazy zone file write after zone transfer (config 'zonefile-sync')
  + close zone transfer after SERVFAIL response
  + incremental to full zone transfer fallback, wrong log message
  + zone events corner cases, reload replanning
- update to 1.5.0-rc1
  + Pluggable query processing modules
  + Synthetic IPv4/IPv6 reverse/forward records (optional module)
  + Dnstap support in both utilities & server (optional module)
  + NOTIFY message support and new TSIG section in kdig
  + Multi-master support
  + Query processing and core functionality overhaul
  + Performance and reduced memory footprint
  + Faster zone events scheduling
  + RFC compliant queries/responses in some corner cases
  + Log messages
  + New documentation (Sphinx)
- enabled dynamic linking
- removed info pages
* Wed Jun 18 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.7-1
- update to 1.4.7
  + Fixed DDNS corner cases
  + Fixed zone EXPIRE timer
  + Fixed semantic checks false positives
  + Fixed sending malformed IXFR with automatic DNSSEC
  + Fixed NAPTR record serialization
* Thu May 22 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.6-2
- update to 1.4.6
  + DNSSEC: fix possible signing loop when doing key rollover
  + RRL: fixed sending of malformed UDP empty responses
* Mon Apr 14 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.5-1
- update to 1.4.5
  + fix weakness in TSIG digest checking
* Thu Mar 27 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.4-1
- update to 1.4.4
  + server is logging remote control commands
  + 'knotc reload' doesn't refresh unchanged zones
  + 'knotc -f refresh' forces zone retransfer
  + missing notifications after DDNS/automatic resign
  + zone is rebootstrapped if the zone file is unreadable
  + progressive bootstrap retry backoff
  + zone file parser allows asterisk as part of the label
  + journal maximum entry size fixes
  + sign DNSKEYs in non-apex nodes as regular RR sets
  + various spelling and typo fixes
* Tue Feb 18 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.3-1
- update to 1.4.3
  + DNSSEC: fixes in authenticated denial proofs
  + zone parser: case insensitive comparison of $ORIGIN
  + journal: fix corruption if zone loading fails
  + config: add support for includes of directories
* Wed Feb 12 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.2-3
- rebuild with new userspace-rcu
* Mon Jan 27 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.2-2
- enable IDN support in domain names
* Mon Jan 27 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.2-1
- update to 1.4.2
* Mon Jan 13 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.1-1
- update to 1.4.1
* Mon Jan  6 2014 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.0-1
- update to 1.4.0
* Fri Dec 13 2013 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.0-0.2.rc2
- update to 1.4.0-rc2
* Tue Nov 26 2013 Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at fedoraproject.org> 1.4.0-0.1.rc1
- update to 1.4.0-rc1
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
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