[Release information]

• Translations have not been fully updated in this release. They will be updated in an upcoming extra release.

[Breaking changes]

• Raises minimum Perl version to v5.26.0. See Zonemaster-LDNS, but indirectly affects all components except Zonemaster-GUI.
• Changes the string representation of IPv6 addresses. See Zonemaster-Engine.
• Separates functions to trim whitespace and to normalize domain name. See Zonemaster-Engine.
• Changes the CLI "--test" option. See Zonemaster-CLI.

[Deprecations]

• API method "get_batch_job_result" is deprecated to be removed in v2025.2. Use method "batch_status" instead. See #1304 and Zonemaster-Backend.

[Features]

• Lowers all WARNING to NOTICE in test case Zone01. Lowers ERROR to WARNING in test case DNSSEC03. See #1384, #1352 and Zonemaster-Engine.
• Updates "Requirements and normalization of domain names in input" to make removal of leading and trailing space optional (#1260).
• Defines Backend API "batch_status" to replace "get_batch_job_result" (#1304). For implementation see Zonemaster-Backend.
• Improves performance in Zonemaster-LDNS and Zonemaster-Engine.
• Expands the "--nstimes" and "--count" options in Zonemaster-CLI.

[Fixes]

• Updates language translations. See Zonemaster-Engine, Zonemaster-CLI and Zonemaster-Backend.
• Fixes issue in test case DNSSEC10 when name servers share IP addresses. See Zonemaster-Engine.
• Updates installation instructions (#1391).
• Updates global cache instructions (#1392).
• Updates Backend batch instructions (#1386).
• Removes 'Randomized capitalization' documentation (#1390).
• Adds test scenarios for test cases DNSSEC10, Basic02 and Address03, respectively (#1383), (#1380), (#1354).

[Zonemaster product]

This version of Zonemaster also consists of the following components. For each component, see its Changes file or Github release notes for complete release information.

For more information on previous versions of the Zonemaster product see the Changes file or the releases page on Github. For general information see the README file.

The public documentation is also found in a nicer format on the documentation site. Zonemaster can be used and tested on the reference installation.