1.28.0

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:

• Brad House (@bradh352)
• Cristian Rodríguez (@crrodriguez)
• Daniel Stenberg (@bagder)
• Faraz (@farazrbx)
• Faraz Fallahi (@fffaraz)
• Oliver Welsh (@oliverwelsh)