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1version 2.51
2            Add support for internationalised DNS. Non-ASCII characters
3            in domain names found in /etc/hosts, /etc/ethers and
4	    /etc/dnsmasq.conf will be correctly handled by translation to
5            punycode, as specified in RFC3490. This function is only
6            available if dnsmasq is compiled with internationalisation
7            support, and adds a dependency on GNU libidn. Without i18n
8            support, dnsmasq continues to be compilable with just
9            standard tools. Thanks to Yves Dorfsman for the
10            suggestion.
11
12            Add two more environment variables for lease-change scripts:
13	    First, DNSMASQ_SUPPLIED_HOSTNAME; this is set to the hostname
14	    supplied by a client, even if the actual hostname used is
15	    over-ridden by dhcp-host or dhcp-ignore-names directives.
16	    Also DNSMASQ_RELAY_ADDRESS which gives the address of
17            a DHCP relay, if used.
18	    Suggestions from Michael Rack.
19
20	    Fix regression which broke echo of relay-agent
21	    options. Thanks to Michael Rack for spotting this.
22
23            Don't treat option 67 as being interchangeable with
24            dhcp-boot parameters if it's specified as
25            dhcp-option-force.
26
27	    Make the code to call scripts on lease-change compile-time
28	    optional. It can be switched off by editing src/config.h
29	    or building with "make COPTS=-DNO_SCRIPT".
30
31	    Make the TFTP server cope with filenames from Windows/DOS
32	    which use '\' as pathname separator. Thanks to Ralf for
33	    the patch.
34
35	    Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota.
36
37	    Warn if an IP address is duplicated in /etc/ethers. Thanks
38	    to Felix Schwarz for pointing this out.
39
40	    Teach --conf-dir to take an option list of file suffices
41	    which will be ignored when scanning the directory. Useful
42	    for backup files etc. Thanks to Helmut Hullen for the
43	    suggestion.
44
45	    Add new DHCP option named tftpserver-address, which
46	    corresponds to the third argument of dhcp-boot. This
47	    allows the complete functionality of dhcp-boot to be
48	    replicated with dhcp-option. Useful when using
49	    dhcp-optsfile.
50
51	    Test which upstream nameserver to use every 10 seconds
52            or 50 queries and not just when a query times out and
53            is retried. This should improve performance when there
54            is a slow nameserver in the list. Thanks to Joe for the
55            suggestion.
56
57	    Don't do any PXE processing, even for clients with the
58	    correct vendorclass, unless at least one pxe-prompt or
59            pxe-service option is given. This stops dnsmasq
60            interfering with proxy PXE subsystems when it is just
61            the DHCP server. Thanks to Spencer Clark for spotting this.
62
63	    Limit the blocksize used for TFTP transfers to a value
64	    which avoids packet fragmentation, based on the MTU of the
65	    local interface. Many netboot ROMs can't cope with
66	    fragmented packets.
67
68	    Honour dhcp-ignore configuration for PXE and proxy-PXE
69	    requests. Thanks to Niels Basjes for the bug report.
70
71            Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan.
72
73
74version 2.50
75	    Fix security problem which allowed any host permitted to
76            do TFTP to possibly compromise dnsmasq by remote buffer
77            overflow when TFTP enabled. Thanks to Core Security
78	    Technologies and Iván Arce, Pablo Hernán Jorge, Alejandro
79	    Pablo Rodriguez, Martín Coco, Alberto Soliño Testa and
80	    Pablo Annetta. This problem has Bugtraq id: 36121
81            and CVE: 2009-2957
82
83            Fix a problem which allowed a malicious TFTP client to
84            crash dnsmasq. Thanks to Steve Grubb at Red Hat for
85            spotting this. This problem has Bugtraq id: 36120 and
86            CVE: 2009-2958
87
88
89version 2.49
90            Fix regression in 2.48 which disables the lease-change
91            script. Thanks to Jose Luis Duran for spotting this.
92
93	    Log TFTP "file not found" errors. These were not logged,
94	    since a normal PXELinux boot generates many of them, but
95	    the lack of the messages seems to be more confusing than
96	    routinely seeing them when there is no real error.
97
98	    Update Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham.
99
100
101version 2.48
102            Archived the extensive, backwards, changelog to
103            CHANGELOG.archive. The current changelog now runs from
104            version 2.43 and runs conventionally.
105
106	    Fixed bug which broke binding of servers to physical
107	    interfaces when interface names were longer than four
108	    characters. Thanks to MURASE Katsunori for the patch.
109
110	    Fixed netlink code to check that messages come from the
111	    correct source, and not another userspace process. Thanks
112	    to Steve Grubb for the patch.
113
114	    Maintainability drive: removed bug and missing feature
115	    workarounds for some old platforms. Solaris 9, OpenBSD
116	    older than 4.1, Glibc older than 2.2, Linux 2.2.x and
117            DBus older than 1.1.x are no longer supported.
118
119	    Don't read included configuration files more than once:
120	    allows complex configuration structures without problems.
121
122	    Mark log messages from the various subsystems in dnsmasq:
123	    messages from the DHCP subsystem now have the ident string
124	    "dnsmasq-dhcp" and messages from TFTP have ident
125	    "dnsmasq-tftp". Thanks to Olaf Westrik for the patch.
126
127	    Fix possible infinite DHCP protocol loop when an IP
128	    address nailed to a hostname (not a MAC address)  and a
129	    host sometimes provides the name, sometimes not.
130
131	    Allow --addn-hosts to take a directory: all the files
132	    in the directory are read. Thanks to Phil Cornelius for
133	    the suggestion.
134
135	    Support --bridge-interface on all platforms, not just BSD.
136
137            Added support for advanced PXE functions. It's now
138            possible to define a prompt and menu options which will
139            be displayed when a client PXE boots. It's also possible to
140            hand-off booting to other boot servers. Proxy-DHCP, where
141            dnsmasq just supplies the PXE information and another DHCP
142            server does address allocation, is also allowed. See the
143            --pxe-prompt and --pxe-service keywords. Thanks to
144	    Alkis Georgopoulos for the suggestion and Guilherme Moro
145            and Michael Brown for assistance.
146
147	    Improvements to DHCP logging. Thanks to Tom Metro for
148	    useful suggestions.
149
150	    Add ability to build dnsmasq without DHCP support. To do
151	    this, edit src/config.h or build with
152	    "make COPTS=-DNO_DHCP". Thanks to Mahavir Jain for the patch.
153
154	    Added --test command-line switch - syntax check
155	    configuration files only.
156
157            Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan.
158
159
160version 2.47
161	    Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan.
162
163	    Fixed interface enumeration code to work on NetBSD
164	    5.0. Thanks to Roy Marples for the patch.
165
166	    Updated config.h to use the same location for the lease
167	    file on NetBSD as the other *BSD variants. Also allow
168	    LEASEFILE and CONFFILE symbols to be overriden in CFLAGS.
169
170            Handle duplicate address detection on IPv6 more
171            intelligently. In IPv6, an interface can have an address
172            which is not usable, because it is still undergoing DAD
173            (such addresses are marked "tentative"). Attempting to
174            bind to an address in this state returns an error,
175            EADDRNOTAVAIL. Previously, on getting such an error,
176            dnsmasq would silently abandon the address, and never
177            listen on it. Now, it retries once per second for 20
178            seconds before generating a fatal error. 20 seconds should
179            be long enough for any DAD process to complete, but can be
180            adjusted in src/config.h if necessary. Thanks to Martin
181            Krafft for the bug report.
182
183	    Add DBus introspection. Patch from Jeremy Laine.
184
185	    Update Dbus configuration file. Patch from Colin Walters.
186	    Fix for this bug:
187            http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18961
188
189	    Support arbitrarily encapsulated DHCP options, suggestion
190	    and initial patch from Samium Gromoff. This is useful for
191	    (eg) gPXE, which expect all its private options to be
192	    encapsulated inside a single option 175. So, eg,
193
194            dhcp-option = encap:175, 190, "iscsi-client0"
195            dhcp-option = encap:175, 191, "iscsi-client0-secret"
196
197	    will provide iSCSI parameters to gPXE.
198
199	    Enhance --dhcp-match to allow testing of the contents of a
200	    client-sent option, as well as its presence. This
201	    application in mind for this is RFC 4578
202	    client-architecture specifiers, but it's generally useful.
203	    Joey Korkames suggested the enhancement.
204
205	    Move from using the IP_XMIT_IF ioctl to IP_BOUND_IF on
206	    OpenSolaris. Thanks to Bastian Machek for the heads-up.
207
208	    No longer complain about blank lines in
209	    /etc/ethers. Thanks to Jon Nelson for the patch.
210
211	    Fix binding of servers to physical devices, eg
212	    --server=/domain/1.2.3.4@eth0 which was broken from 2.43
213	    onwards unless --query-port=0 set. Thanks to Peter Naulls
214	    for the bug report.
215
216	    Reply to DHCPINFORM requests even when the supplied ciaddr
217	    doesn't fall in any dhcp-range. In this case it's not
218	    possible to supply a complete configuration, but
219	    individually-configured options (eg PAC) may be useful.
220
221	    Allow the source address of an alias to be a range:
222	    --alias=192.168.0.0,10.0.0.0,255.255.255.0 maps the whole
223	    subnet 192.168.0.0->192.168.0.255 to 10.0.0.0->10.0.0.255,
224	    as before.
225	    --alias=192.168.0.10-192.168.0.40,10.0.0.0,255.255.255.0
226	    maps only the 192.168.0.10->192.168.0.40 region. Thanks to
227	    Ib Uhrskov for the suggestion.
228
229	    Don't dynamically allocate DHCP addresses which may break
230	    Windows.  Addresses which end in .255 or .0 are broken in
231	    Windows even when using supernetting.
232	    --dhcp-range=192.168.0.1,192.168.1.254,255,255,254.0 means
233	    192.168.0.255 is a valid IP address, but not for Windows.
234	    See Microsoft KB281579. We therefore no longer allocate
235	    these addresses to avoid hard-to-diagnose problems.
236
237	    Update Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota.
238
239	    Delete the PID-file when dnsmasq shuts down. Note that by
240	    this time, dnsmasq is normally not running as root, so
241	    this will fail if the PID-file is stored in a root-owned
242	    directory; such failure is silently ignored. To take
243	    advantage of this feature, the PID-file must be stored in a
244	    directory owned and write-able by the user running
245	    dnsmasq.
246
247
248version 2.46
249	    Allow --bootp-dynamic to take a netid tag, so that it may
250	    be selectively enabled. Thanks to Olaf Westrik for the
251	    suggestion.
252
253	    Remove ISC-leasefile reading code. This has been
254	    deprecated for a long time, and last time I removed it, it
255	    ended up going back by request of one user. This time,
256	    it's gone for good; otherwise it would need to be
257	    re-worked to support multiple domains (see below).
258
259	    Support DHCP clients in multiple DNS domains. This is a
260	    long-standing request. Clients are assigned to a domain
261	    based in their IP address.
262
263            Add --dhcp-fqdn flag, which changes behaviour if DNS names
264            assigned to DHCP clients. When this is set, there must be
265            a domain associated with each client, and only
266            fully-qualified domain names are added to the DNS. The
267            advantage is that the only the FQDN needs to be unique,
268            so that two or more DHCP clients can share a hostname, as
269            long as they are in different domains.
270
271	    Set environment variable DNSMASQ_DOMAIN when invoking
272	    lease-change script. This may be useful information to
273	    have now that it's variable.
274
275	    Tighten up data-checking code for DNS packet
276	    handling. Thanks to Steve Dodd who found certain illegal
277	    packets which could crash dnsmasq. No memory overwrite was
278	    possible, so this is not a security issue beyond the DoS
279	    potential.
280
281	    Update example config dhcp option 47, the previous
282	    suggestion generated an illegal, zero-length,
283	    option. Thanks to Matthias Andree for finding this.
284
285	    Rewrite hosts-file reading code to remove the limit of
286	    1024 characters per line. John C Meuser found this.
287
288	    Create a net-id tag with the name of the interface on
289	    which the DHCP request was received.
290
291	    Fixed minor memory leak in DBus code, thanks to Jeremy
292	    Laine for the patch.
293
294	    Emit DBus signals as the DHCP lease database
295	    changes. Thanks to Jeremy Laine for the patch.
296
297	    Allow for more that one MAC address in a dhcp-host
298	    line. This configuration tells dnsmasq that it's OK to
299	    abandon a DHCP lease of the fixed address to one MAC
300	    address, if another MAC address in the dhcp-host statement
301	    asks for an address. This is useful to give a fixed
302	    address to a host which has two network interfaces
303	    (say, a laptop with wired and wireless interfaces.)
304            It's very important to ensure that only one interface
305	    at a time is up, since dnsmasq abandons the first lease
306	    and re-uses the address before the leased time has
307	    elapsed. John Gray suggested this.
308
309	    Tweak the response to a DHCP request packet with a wrong
310	    server-id when --dhcp-authoritative is set; dnsmasq now
311	    returns a DHCPNAK, rather than silently ignoring the
312	    packet. Thanks to Chris Marget for spotting this
313	    improvement.
314
315	    Add --cname option. This provides a limited alias
316	    function, usable for DHCP names. Thanks to AJ Weber for
317	    suggestions on this.
318
319	    Updated contrib/webmin with latest version from Neil
320	    Fisher.
321
322	    Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota.
323
324	    Correct the text names for DHCP options 64 and 65 to be
325	    "nis+-domain" and "nis+-servers".
326
327	    Updated Spanish translation. Thanks to Chris Chatham.
328
329	    Force re-reading of /etc/resolv.conf when an "interface
330	    up" event occurs.
331
332
333version 2.45
334            Fix total DNS failure in release 2.44 unless --min-port
335            specified. Thanks to Steven Barth and Grant Coady for
336            bugreport. Also reject out-of-range port spec, which could
337            break things too: suggestion from Gilles Espinasse.
338
339
340version 2.44
341            Fix  crash when unknown client attempts to renew a DHCP
342            lease, problem introduced in version 2.43. Thanks to
343            Carlos Carvalho for help chasing this down.
344
345	    Fix potential crash when a host which doesn't have a lease
346	    does DHCPINFORM. Again introduced in 2.43. This bug has
347	    never been reported in the wild.
348
349            Fix crash in netlink code introduced in 2.43. Thanks to
350            Jean Wolter for finding this.
351
352	    Change implementation of min_port to work even if min-port
353	    is large.
354
355	    Patch to enable compilation of latest Mac OS X. Thanks to
356	    David Gilman.
357
358	    Update Spanish translation. Thanks to Christopher Chatham.
359
360
361version 2.43
362	    Updated Polish translation. Thanks to Jan Psota.
363
364	    Flag errors when configuration options are repeated
365	    illegally.
366
367	    Further tweaks for GNU/kFreeBSD
368
369	    Add --no-wrap to msgmerge call - provides nicer .po file
370	    format.
371
372	    Honour lease-time spec in dhcp-host lines even for
373	    BOOTP. The user is assumed to known what they are doing in
374	    this case. (Hosts without the time spec still get infinite
375	    leases for BOOTP, over-riding the default in the
376	    dhcp-range.) Thanks to Peter Katzmann for uncovering this.
377
378	    Fix problem matching relay-agent ids. Thanks to Michael
379	    Rack for the bug report.
380
381	    Add --naptr-record option. Suggestion from Johan
382	    Bergquist.
383
384	    Implement RFC 5107 server-id-override DHCP relay agent
385	    option.
386
387	    Apply patches from Stefan Kruger for compilation on
388	    Solaris 10 under Sun studio.
389
390	    Yet more tweaking of Linux capability code, to suppress
391	    pointless wingeing from kernel 2.6.25 and above.
392
393	    Improve error checking during startup. Previously, some
394	    errors which occurred during startup would be worked
395	    around, with dnsmasq still starting up. Some were logged,
396            some silent. Now, they all cause a fatal error and dnsmasq
397            terminates with a non-zero exit code. The errors are those
398            associated with changing uid and gid, setting process
399            capabilities and writing the pidfile. Thanks to Uwe
400	    Gansert and the Suse security team for pointing out
401	    this improvement, and Bill Reimers for good implementation
402	    suggestions.
403
404	    Provide NO_LARGEFILE compile option to switch off largefile
405	    support when compiling against versions of uclibc which
406	    don't support it. Thanks to Stephane Billiart for the patch.
407
408            Implement random source ports for interactions with
409            upstream nameservers. New spoofing attacks have been found
410            against nameservers which do not do this, though it is not
411            clear if dnsmasq is vulnerable, since to doesn't implement
412            recursion. By default dnsmasq will now use a different
413            source port (and socket) for each query it sends
414            upstream. This behaviour can suppressed using the
415            --query-port option, and the old default behaviour
416            restored using --query-port=0. Explicit source-port
417            specifications in --server configs are still honoured.
418
419	    Replace the random number generator, for better
420	    security. On most BSD systems, dnsmasq uses the
421	    arc4random() RNG, which is secure, but on other platforms,
422	    it relied on the C-library RNG, which may be
423	    guessable and therefore allow spoofing. This release
424	    replaces the libc RNG with the SURF RNG, from Daniel
425	    J. Berstein's DJBDNS package.
426
427	    Don't attempt to change user or group or set capabilities
428	    if dnsmasq is run as a non-root user. Without this, the
429	    change from soft to hard errors when these fail causes
430	    problems for non-root daemons listening on high
431	    ports. Thanks to Patrick McLean for spotting this.
432
433	    Updated French translation. Thanks to Gildas Le Nadan.
434
435
436version 2.42
437            The changelog for version 2.42 and earlier is
438            available in CHANGELOG.archive.
439