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v1.12.2

This release introduces significant improvements to plugin stability and extensibility. It adds multicluster support to the Kubernetes plugin, fallthrough support in the file plugin, and a new SetProxyOptions function for the forward plugin. Notably, the QUIC (DoQ) plugin now limits concurrent streams, improving performance under load. Several bug fixes and optimizations improve reliability across plugins, including rewrite, proxy, and metrics.

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Ambrose Chua, Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Ben Kochie, Colden Cullen, Gleb Kogtev, Hirotaka Tagawa, Kevin Lyda, Manuel Rüger, Mark Mickan, Parfenov Ivan, skipper, vdbe, Viktor Oreshkin, Ville Vesilehto, Yannick Epstein, Yong Tang

Noteworthy Changes

• core: Enable plugins via environment during build (coredns/coredns#7310)
• core: Ensure DNS query name reset in plugin.NS error path (coredns/coredns#7142)
• plugin/forward: Added SetProxyOptions function for forward plugin (coredns/coredns#7229)
• plugin/ready: Do not interrupt querying readiness probes for plugins (coredns/coredns#6975)
• plugin/secondary: Make transfer property mandatory (coredns/coredns#7249)
• plugin/rewrite: Truncated upstream response (coredns/coredns#7277)
• plugin/quic: Limit concurrent DoQ streams and goroutines (coredns/coredns#7296)
• plugin/kubernetes: Add multicluster support (coredns/coredns#7266)
• plugin/bind: Remove zone for link-local IPv4 (coredns/coredns#7295)
• plugin/metrics: Preserve request size from plugins (coredns/coredns#7313)
• plugin/proxy: Avoid Dial hang after Transport stopped (coredns/coredns#7321)
• plugin/file: Add fallthrough support (coredns/coredns#7327)
• plugin/kubernetes: Optimize AutoPath slice allocation (coredns/coredns#7323)

v1.12.1

In this release:

• kubernetes: Revert recent change to only create PTR records for endpoints with hostname defined.
• forward: added option to return SERVFAIL immediately if all upstreams are unhealthy.

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Makefile for releasing CoreDNS

The release is controlled from coremain/version.go. The version found there is

used to tag the git repo and to build the assets that are uploaded to GitHub.

The release should be accompanied by release notes in the notes/ subdirectory.

These are published on coredns.io. For example see: notes/coredns-1.5.1.md

Use make -f Makefile.release notes to create a skeleton notes document.

For this to work properly you must fetch the tag of the previous release.

Be sure to prune the PR list a bit, not everything is worthy!

As seen in notes/coredns-1.5.1.md we want to style the notes in the following manner:

* important changes at the top

* people who committed/review code (the latter is harder to get)

* Slightly abbreviated list of pull requests merged for this release.

Steps to release, first:

1. Up the version in coremain/version.go

2. Do a make -f Makefile.doc # This has been automated in GitHub, so you can probably skip this step

3. go generate

4. Send PR to get this merged.

Then:

1. Open an issue for this release

2. In an issue give the command: /release master VERSION

Where VERSION is the version of the release - the release script double checks this with the

actual CoreDNS version in coremain/version.go

3. (to test as release /release -t master VERSION can be used.

See https://github.com/coredns/release for documentation README on what needs to be setup for this to be

automated (can still be done by hand if needed). Especially what environment variables need to be

set! This further depends on Caddy being setup and dreck running as a plugin in Caddy.

To release we run, these target from the this Makefile.release ordered like:

* make release

* make github-push

Testing this is hard-ish as you don't want to accidentally release a coredns. If not executing the github-push target

you should be fine.

Docker image creation and upload are now separate steps, because it often failed before. See the Makefile.docker for

details.

ifeq (, $(shell which curl)) $(error "No curl in $$PATH, please install") endif

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• 0eb5542 Update Go (#7356)
• 83afff1 view: Add IPv6 example match (#7355)
• 67f3ece chore: enable more rules from revive (#7352)
• 186e4a1 chore: enable early-return and superfluous-else from revive (#7129)
• ddb74cd test(plugin): improve tests for auto (#7348)
• 11774d9 fix(proxy): flaky dial tests (#7349)
• 9f9aed3 test: add t.Helper() calls to test helper functions (#7351)
• b4abdca fix(kubernetes): multicluster DNS race condition (#7350)
• 9240544 build(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.234.0 to 0.235.0 (#7345)
• 3655ac9 build(deps): bump github.com/go-logr/logr from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 (#7344)
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