c-ares version 1.28.1 - Mar 30 2024

This release contains a fix for a single significant regression introduced in c-ares 1.28.0.

ares_search() and ares_getaddrinfo() resolution fails if no search domains are specified. Issue #737

c-ares version 1.28.0 - Mar 29 2024

This is a feature and bugfix release.

Features:

Emit warnings when deprecated c-ares functions are used. This can be disabled by passing a compiler definition of CARES_NO_DEPRECATED. PR #732
Add function ares_search_dnsrec() to search for records using the new DNS record data structures. PR #719
Rework internals to pass around ares_dns_record_t instead of binary data, this introduces new public functions of ares_query_dnsrec() and ares_send_dnsrec(). PR #730

Changes:

tests: when performing simulated queries, reduce timeouts to make tests run faster
Replace configuration file parsers with memory-safe parser. PR #725
Remove acountry completely, the manpage might still get installed otherwise. Issue #718

Bugfixes:

CMake: don't overwrite global required libraries/definitions/includes which could cause build errors for projects chain building c-ares. Issue #729
On some platforms, netinet6/in6.h is not included by netinet/in.h and needs to be included separately. PR #728
Fix a potential memory leak in ares_init(). Issue #724
Some platforms don't have the isascii() function. Implement as a macro. PR #721
CMake: Fix Chain building if CMAKE runtime paths not set
NDots configuration should allow a value of zero. PR #735

Thanks go to these friendly people for their efforts and contributions for this release: