+++
date = "2017-06-14T22:52:11Z"
description = "CoreDNS-008 Release Notes."
release = "008"
tags = ["Release", "008", "Notes"]
title = "CoreDNS-008 Release"
author = "coredns"
+++

CoreDNS-008 has been [released](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v008)!

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins, where each plugin implements a DNS feature.

Release v008 has a lot of content, with new plugin and major features added to existing plugin.

Please note there is an *incompatible* change to the `log` directive - it now only logs to `stdout` and so
only allows `stdout` as the file name (which of course may be omitted).

# Core

* `-log` flag was changed into a boolean as all logging will be written to standard output.

# Plugins

## New

* *hosts* allows CoreDNS to read a `/etc/hosts` styled file and generate responses from that.
* *debug* can disable the `panic/recover` that is enabled by default. Mostly useful for testing/non-prod use cases to generate stack traces.

## Updates

* *chaos* now returns the correct `version.bind` `TXT` record.
* *kubernetes*
   * Now returns a proper NS record for the cluster domain
   * Supports `ExternalName` services, which was an oversight in the 1.0.0 version of the [Kubernetes dns spec](https://github.com/kubernetes/dns/blob/master/docs/specification.md)
   * Now supports federation records
   * Has had some other bug fixes.
* *file*
   * Now supports DNAME [RFC 6672](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6672)
   * Refuse to load a zone without a SOA record.
* *file, auto* don't reload a zone when the SOA's serial hasn't changed.
* *secondary* now behaves properly if queried before the zone has been transferred
* *log, errors* output everything to *stdout* and let `journald` or `docker` (or whatever) that care of further handling. This is backwards **incompatible** change wrt to the Corefile: `log query.log` will return an error.
* *cache* got a new cache implementation to be more scalable and  a new `prefetch` option for fetching records before the TTL expires.
* *proxy* does not use `singleinflight` anymore, removing a potential bottleneck on the single mutex in that implementation; it now forwards *all* queries it get to the upstream nameserver.


# Contributors

The following people helped with getting this release done:

Chris Aniszczyk,
Chris O'Haver,
cricketliu,
Eric Yan,
John Belamaric,
Jonas Östanbäck,
Manuel Alejandro de Brito Fontes,
Miek Gieben,
Pat Moroney,
Yong Tang

If you want to help, please check out one of the [issues](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/)
and start coding!

For documentation and help, see our [community page](https://coredns.io/community/).