+++
title = "CoreDNS-1.6.5 Release"
description = "CoreDNS-1.6.5 Release Notes."
tags = ["Release", "1.6.5", "Notes"]
release = "1.6.5"
date = 2019-10-13T10:00:00+00:00
author = "coredns"
+++

The CoreDNS team has released
[CoreDNS-1.6.5](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.6.5).

A fairly small release that polishes various plugins and fixes a bunch of bugs.

# Plugins

* [*forward*](/plugins/forward) don't block on returning sockets; instead timeout and drop the
  socket on the floor, this makes each go-routine guarantee to exit .
* [*kubernetes*](/plugins/kubernetes) adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency, see
  documentation for details.
* [*file*](/plugins/file) fixes a panic when comparing domains names

## Brought to You By

Erfan Besharat,
Hauke Löffler,
Ingo Gottwald,
janluk,
Miek Gieben,
Uladzimir Trehubenka,
Yong Tang,
yuxiaobo96.

## Noteworthy Changes

* core: Make request.Request smaller (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3351)
* plugin/cache: move goroutine closure to separate function to save memory (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3353)
* plugin/clouddns: remove initialization from init (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3349)
* plugin/erratic: doc and zone transfer (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3340)
* plugin/file: fix panic in miekg/dns.CompareDomainName() (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3337)
* plugin/forward: make Yield not block (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3336)
* plugin/forward: Move map to array (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3339)
* plugin/kubernetes: Measure and expose DNS programming latency from Kubernetes plugin. (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3171)
* plugin/route53: remove amazon intialization from init (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3348)