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date = "2016-09-18T11:40:37+01:00"
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description = "CoreDNS-001 Release Notes."
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release = "001"
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tags = ["Release", "001", "Notes"]
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title = "CoreDNS-001 Release"
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author = "coredns"
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CoreDNS-001 has been [released](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases). This is the first
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release! It provides a complete DNS server, that also does DNSSEC and is useful for service
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discovery in cloud setups.
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# What is CoreDNS?
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[CoreDNS](https://coredns.io) is a DNS server that started its life as a fork of the [Caddy
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web(!)server](https://caddyserver.com).
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It chains [plugin](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin),
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where each plugin implements some DNS feature. CoreDNS is a complete replacement
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(with more features, and maybe less bugs) for [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns).
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It is also useful as a normal DNS server, featuring DNSSEC, on-the-fly signing and zone transfers.
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# What is New
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CoreDNS is now a (the first!) server type plugin in Caddy - this means we can leverage a lot of code
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from Caddy without having to fork (and maintain) it all. By doing so we were able to remove 9000
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lines of code from CoreDNS.
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The core (ghe!) of CoreDNS is now in a good shape. Future work will focus on making the
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plugin better, e.g. the proxy implementation is slow and needs to be
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[faster](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/184).
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## New Plugins
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* There is now a [specific
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plugin](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin/kubernetes) to deal with [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io).
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* The *bind* [plugin](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin/bind) allows you to bind to a specific IP address, instead of using the wildcard
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address.
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* A *whoami* [plugin](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin/whoami) reports
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back your address and port.
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* All other plugins are reworked to fit in the new plugin framework from Caddy version 0.9 (and
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up).
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The *whoami* plugin is also used when CoreDNS starts up and can't find a Corefile.
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# Contributors
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The following people helped with getting this release done:
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Cricket Liu, elcore, Félix Cantournet, Ilya Dmitrichenko, Joe Blow, Lee, Matt Layher,
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Michael Richmond, Miek Gieben, pixelbender, Yong Tang.
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If you want to help, please check out one of the [issues](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/) and start coding!
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For documentation and help, see our [community page](https://coredns.io/community/).
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