NicTool

The NicTool client (Web interface) is now HTML 5 validated. Much archaic HTML was replaced with shiny new HTML 5, CSS, and Javascript. Many other changes were made to improve the quality of the code and maintainability.

A large reworking of the SQL backend. Many improvements to the data model have been made. The exports are now much simpler and robust. They also support more type of zone records. BIND export support has finally arrived. The test suite has been enlarged, and the validation tests for zones and records is much more robust. There is partial support for location and timestamps for records. These can be used to support BIND views, tinydns locations, and start/stop times for zone records. There is no support yet in the Web interface.

This release abstracts NTS:Z:R:Sanity::new_or_edit_basic_verify into a suite of functions, supports SRV records, shortens db_mysql.h's ZONE_QUERY_FORMAT from 716 to 509 chars and adds ZR_PRIORITY and ZR_OTHER, rewrites nameserver/install.pl so it prompts for all required values with reasonable defaults, adds a patch from slink to get_zone_records (see forum thread), provides better error messages to nt_export_djb.pl, and tries to install required Perl modules with bin/install_deps.sh. Users need to update their SQL tables.

A link to the license and source was added to most
output templates. The license and source links
were updated to open in a new window. Affero-GPL
license info was added. The TXT rr type was added
in NicToolClient.pm. The "use strict" pragma in
htdocs/*.cgi was disabled. This causes failures
under perl 5.8 due to programming shortcuts used
by previous authors.