dnschain - npm Package Versions

0.5.2 - March 11, 2015

• Improvements:
  • Includes tests for verifying NXT support
  • Added superagent for simpler HTTP requests
  • Moved dnsHandler into blockchain.coffee template class
  • Prevent favicon.ico requests from filling logs
  • Improved Comparisons.md documentation
  • Misc. code and logging improvements
• Fixes:
  • #138: Nxt resolver not working
  • #140: Prevent non-json values in Namecoin from returning "Not found"
  • #141: Allow arbitrary namecoin keys, but enforce ICANN domain rules for for d/
  • #142 + #120: Make it less likely Travis will fail

0.5.1 - March 8th, 2015

• Bugfix: Exception ReferenceError on invalid Namecoin query (Closes #137)

0.5.0 - March 7th, 2015

• New Features:
  • Basic Openname Resolver RESTful API support!
  • Built-in HTTPS server that can route multiple services over the same IP and port thanks to @SGrondin
  • Automatically generates 4096-bit HTTPS key/certificate pair for you
  • Redis caching for both DNS and HTTP requests thanks to @WeMeetAgain
  • Traffic throttling for both DNS and HTTP requests thanks to @SGrondin
  • Super simple to add any new blockchain to DNSChain thanks to major refactoring work by @WeMeetAgain
  • NXT blockchain support thanks to @toenu23 (this means a nxt.dns metaTLD and .nxt TLD resolution)
  • Query DNS records over HTTPS using either the new Openname API or icann.dns metaTLD! (by @WeMeetAgain)
  • Ability to specify configuration file path for any supported blockchain via the dnschain configuration (@WeMeetAgain, again!)
  • RESTful API to fetch server fingerprint (Closes #44).
• Improvements:
  • Complete overhaul, refactoring, and improvement of the entire code base
  • Travic CI support
  • Comprehensive testing suite with complete code coverage for all critical files (excludes some error handlers and datasources)
  • Replaced a lot of callback code with Promises (still more to be done!)
  • All DNSChain components/servers are started and shutdown asynchronously (using Promise based API)
  • Precisely specified dependency versions to spare sysadmins any annoying surprises
  • Added badges for NPM version, Travis build status, and Gitter to top of README
  • All Namecoin data is now returned for HTTP(S) queries (txid, expires_in, etc.)
• Documentation:
  • Comparisons to TACK, HPKP, and Thin Clients
  • Numerous miscellaneous improvements to documentation
  • Updated Contributors list in README
  • Added badges for NPM version, Travis build status, and Gitter chat to top of README
  • This release includes the brand new documentation by @mdw and @taoeffect
• Fixes:
  • Closed #111: TypeError on startup on CentOS machines
  • Closed #90 and #87: Exception on access to unknown metaTLD

0.2.5 - July 10, 2014

• Fixed .bit resolution bug introduced in 0.2.4

0.2.4 - July 10, 2014

• Fixed installation issue caused by json-rpc2
• Fixed exception (issue #20)
• Prevented possible DoS on in certain server setup where DNSChain is combined with another DNS server

0.2.3 - May 27, 2014

• Updated native-dns module
• Fixed #16 (unhandled exceptions). DNSSEC and other "unhandled" packets should be relayed now as a result.

0.2.2 - May 3, 2014

• Corrected StackedSchedule scheduling
• Copied old release notes to HISTORY.md

0.2.1 - May 2, 2014

(NOTE: 0.2.1 is the same as 0.2.0, just forgot to bump NPM version.)

• New Features:
  • oldDNSMethod config options should can now be specified as strings (and should be!)
  • new oldDNSMethod NO_OLD_DNS_EVER prevents resolution in oldDNS even if the blockchain specifies it be done. (see comments in globals.coffee for more info and options)
• Improvements:
  • Improved logging shows file and line number for all warnings and errors (and for some messages of other log levels too)
  • All injected globals now start with 'g' (except for module names)
  • Faster .bit resolution
  • Imporved overall code quality and readability
• Fixes:
  • Fixed #8 (exception on NS timeout)
  • Fixed #9 (return NXDOMAIN on bad 'ns' in *.bit)

0.1.1 - April 24, 2014

• Improvements:
  • Some improved logging
• Fixes:
  • Issue resolving some .bit domains introduced in previous release
  • ttl for .bit domains is now equal to average block creation time
  • Outdated license string in package.json