[dns-stats-users] DNS-STATS Compactor 1.0.0-beta1 release

[Jim Hague]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the release of DNS-STATS Compactor version
1.0.0-beta1.

This release is the first beta release for version 1.0. As can be
seen from the following, it includes some substantial changes, and so
is regarded as experimental. We have created a separate ppa to hold the
packages for this release until it is more mature (see below). 

Production systems should continue to use 0.12.3. We intend to continue
to provide bug fix updates where necessary for the 0.12 series until
version 1.1 is released.

Updates since 0.12.3:
* Supports C-DNS as described in RFC8618.
** compactor writes only C-DNS 1.0 format.
** inspector reads C-DNS 1.0 and all previously supported draft formats.
* New fine-grained selection of data stored in C-DNS via
excluded_fields file.
** Previous section 'include' settings are deprecated, and may only be
used if excluded_fields file is not specified.
** Default values may be supplied to inspector for individual items of
data not present in the C-DNS file. A complete set of defaults must be
supplied when outputting PCAP.
* inspector command line options --info-only and --report-only
are deprecated, and replaced with --no-info and --no-output.
* Added template items query_response_query_has_no_question and
 query_response_response_has_no_question.
Item query_response_query_has_question is deprecated.
* Addresses stored in C-DNS files may be stored only to a given
prefix length, potentially saving storage space.

For more information, please see the project wiki:
https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor/wiki.

Packages for EXPERIMENTAL releases available
from: ppa:dns-stats/compactor-unstable
Source code available at: https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor
Documentation available at: 
https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor/wiki/user-guide-1.0.0-beta1.pdf
https://github.com/dns-stats/compactor/wiki/user-guide-1.0.0-beta1.html