I’m happy to announce the release of c-ares 1.5.3. c-ares is an asynchronous name resolver and somewhat generic DNS library with a liberal MIT-style license.

The news this time include:

• fix adig sample application compilation failure on some systems
• fix pkg-config reporting of private libraries needed for static linking
• fallback to gettimeofday when monotonic clock is unavailable at run-time
• ares_gethostbyname() fallback from AAA to A records with CNAME present
• allow –enable-largefile and –disable-largefile configurations
• configure process no longer needs nor checks size of curl_off_t
• library will now be built with _REENTRANT symbol defined if needed
• Improved configure detection of number of arguments for getservbyport_r
• Improved query-ID randomness
• Validate that DNS response address matches the request address
• fix acountry sample application compilation failure on some systems

I’m also happy to see that the development version of Wireshark is currently using c-ares.

If you’re a graphics person, we’ll appreciate some kind of logo/symbol thing for the project!