Release candidate for Net::DNS 1.56

Dear all,

We have a candidate for the upcoming 1.56 release of Net::DNS.

This candidate has one regular bugfixes, and two fixes for LLM discovered security issues:

  • Fix the backtick removal fix from 1.55 (See RT#179692)
  • Fix of remote execution injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR (See RT#179945)
  • Fix of denial of service via long DNS compression chains (See RT#179946)

Please review the candidate carefully. If no issues arise, the actual releases will follow Saturday the 18th of June 2026.

See also the Changes.

link https://www.net-dns.org/download/Net-DNS-1.55_01.tar.gz
sha256 eca7ef258d654446d6fb0aa848a409e33de9595a3b94a88f0a0c066b6390c855
asc https://www.net-dns.org/download/Net-DNS-1.55_01.tar.gz.asc

Regression test results will follow coming Monday the 13th of July

Changes

**** 1.56 [unreleased]

Fix rt.cpan.org #179946
	Denial of Service via long DNS compression chains

Fix rt.cpan.org #179945
	Remote code injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR

Fix rt.cpan.org #179692/#176900
	UNIX.pm: Unreachable code warning using Apache/mod_perl