Release Notes

Important: Release 8.2.6 requires NIC-Container 7.9 or higher

New Features

• REST API: DomiNIC can now be connected by a REST API, alongside the existing SOAP API. Please contact our support for more details.

Improvements

• Existing transfer locks will now be displayed in the domain availability check. Transfers for domains with active transfer locks require a dedicated user right.
• Added a new user right that allows users to view certain background orders like time delayed zone deletions and some notifications from Nic.at in the domain lifecycle.
• Reworked user rights for domain modifications, so that it’s possible to create user right profiles that allow users to register domains and edit zones, but not to change contact details.
• Added new custom property “simplified_api” that allows to use the REST / SOAP APIs in a more simple way. This setting will deactivate polling messages as well as the queuing of orders. Please contact our support if you consider using this setting.
• User export now contains a flag that shows whether the user has activated the two-factor authentication.

Bugfixes

• Deactivated resource records will be validated now, to make sure that imported records are at least syntactically valid.
• Fixed an issue where internal transfers were only recognized for domains that are visible to the logged in customer.
• Fixed an issue where transfers for domains in pending-delete status were allowed.
  
• Fixed an issue with the TLD filter in the TLD configuration settings.
• REST/SOAP API: Authcodes in DomainModify operations are now being used to authenticate the request (only required for some TLDs), not to update the authcode. The latter can be done by using the authcode operations.
• Fixed an issue where contacts with the type role can not be edited in the contact management.
• Fixed an issue where the current date was displayed as “last change” date for newly imported domain.
• Core02: Fixed parsing for successful domain modification messages for TLD .co.za.
  

Important: Release 8.2.5 requires NIC-Container 7.9 or higher

Improvements

• When NIC policies do not allow non ascii characters in contact data, these characters will be  converted automatically if possible
• Delayed zone delete orders will not be shown in the domain lifecycle any more. Only the root customer will be able to see these orders.
• The profile settings now include an information link about the deletion of accounts. If this link shall not be shown to clients, it can be removed by setting the new system configuration dmw.profile.account.deletion.info to false.
• Unified domain renew comments in accounting reports. The text is now always “Automatic renew fee for 1 year(s)”, no matter whether the renew was initialized by the NIC or DomiNIC
• Improved labels, tooltips and information for the ttl-controlled job feature 
• Zone transfers for internal transfers are now protected with a new user right. Only users with the new right are able to perform an AXFR for internal transfers 
• Notifications from Eurid regarding removed contacts will cause DomiNIC to remove the contact from the database as well, as long as it is not assigned to any active domain 

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with DNSSEC signed IDN domains using Knot DNS
• Fixed an issue which occurred in certain situations when a domain is switched to manual name servers
• The dns-active domain status will now be set, if a domain is imported whose zone is already managed by DomiNIC. Likewise the dns-active status is set after a data sync with the NIC, if the domain uses auto name servers 
• Removed multiple whitespace characters in SPF records, as these can lead to validation errors in mail servers and online spf-checking tools 
• It is no longer allowed to enter manual name servers for host names, which are already used as auto name servers in the system, as this led to issues with name server changes