Release Notes

Features

• Redesigned administration page for toplevel domains, featuring multi checkbox selections and assignment of default nics (for multinic usage)
• It is now possible to select multiple resource records for editing, either by checkbox or shift-click

Improvements

• Added an own description text for automatic domain renewals within accounting records to seperate them from order period prices for registrations and transfers
• The TLD of contact specific Core02/Core04 contacts won’t be exported as “information2” attribute for domainExport and domainInfo SOAP API requests any more
• Improved behavior of customer selection boxes in environments with many customers
• Improvement for domain availability check: Updated default value of the system configuration setting dominic.unreliableRootNameservers
• Added an additional tab for new TLDs on the start page

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where authcodes could not be created for Core02 .eu and EPAG .de Domains.
• The type of resource records can no longer be changed while editing or duplicating the record as this led to problems, especially for zones with a large amount of records

Nic policy updates

TLDs added for Epag

• bi
• cg 
• co.ls 
• co.mz 
• co.zw 
• com.bd 
• com.ni 
• com.om 
• com.sv 
• ge 
• gy 
• ly 
• mw 
• rw 
• sn 
• sr 
• tj 
• tt
• life

TLDs added for Ascio

• net.cm

Improvements

• Changes of minor owner and admin contact fields like address fields or phone number will not cause order approvals any more. These minor fields can be configured.
• Orders for the same domain which are started via SOAP interface will be queued now, when an order for the domain is already in process.
• Improved behavior for setting up zones by RNS agents on name servers, that cannot be queried from the DomiNIC BPE.
• GUI: Resource records can now be added alternatively by pressing the enter key.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where Core02 owner contact handles for .eu domains were used for admin contacts.
• Ascio autorenew notifications for zones will now not block the zone from beeing modified any more.
• Fixed an issue where the EPAG trustee service was disabled during domain updates.
• Improved timeout handling for the Core02 and Core04 interfaces.
• Nic.at polling message about Restore in Nic.at online portal is processed correctly (domain-unlocked-customer)
• Removed unnecessary line breaks from the beginning of mails

Nic policy updates

New TLDs for Ascio

• sale
• fashion
• bet
• auto
• car
• cars
• family
• vin
• wine
• vision
• security
• protection
• broker
• forex
• trading
• party
• ricket
• bid
• review
• science
• cfd
• food

TLDs for Epag added

• cr
• bs
• com.na

Updates forEpag

• com.tr / info.tr field ‘Tax number’ added
• .kr – field ‘ID number’ and validation on LP owner added.
• sg/com.sg – field ‘ID number’ for owner and admin added. Validation on LP admin added. Validation on ID number filled in when admin resides in ‘sg’.

Features and Improvements

• Improved starting/stopping mechanism
• SPF Resource records will always be converted into TXT records, since SPF records are obsolete.
• Reset functionality for logos: When a custom logo is removed, DomiNIC resets the logo to the default logo of the used theme.
• Name server selection: The panel for selecting a name server is now folded in by default. Only when a domain uses no name servers provisioned by DomiNIC the panel is shown folded out.

Upgrades for Application Server and Webserver

• Upgraded application server from Jboss 4.2.2 GA to Wildfly 8.2.0
• Updated Jetty web server to 9.2.10.v20150310

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where .job domains could not be registered.
• Fixed an issue where some EPAG domains could only be deleted instead of expired. 
• Fixed an issue with setting up zones when name server settings for a domain are changed from automatic master(s) + customer name server(s) to automatic master(s) + automatic slave(s). 
• Fixed an issue where the last page in all pager sites is empty, when the amount of results is too big 
• Fixed some small issues with table sorters in the name server administration and order search 

Upgrade procedure

• For the update procedure please refer to the information provided by our support team with the distribution.

Features and Improvements

• Improved validation of resource records:
  • RR Data fields of the following record types no longer allowes IP Addresses. Instead entered IP Addresses will be considered as host names and converted into FQDN format: CNAME, MX, NAPTR(Replacement), NS, PTR, SRV.
  • Host names starting or ending with a hyphen are no longer allowed.
• Configurable content on login page. 
  
  • The login page shows a text panel. The text used here can be localized by using the translation manager.
  • The feature also allows to change the layout of the panel.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where zones were not set up correctly in certain cases of name server changes.

Features and Improvements

Features

• DNS Templates
  • It is now possible to create and edit DNS Templates. A template stores a set of resource records. For details please refer to section 8.11 of the DomiNIC Online Documentation
  • DNS Templates can be created on customer level
  • When selecting a DNS template within the order process, all specified resource records will be included in the order
  • This feature can be activated based on new user rights 
• Contact administration
  • Contact search, view and download functionalilty
  • Modification of contact details
  • For further information please refer to the DomiNIC Online Documentation
• MultiNIC transfers
  • A domain already in DomiNIC can be transferred from one NIC to another, e.g. from a registrar to a registry or from a registrar to another registrar
  • It is also possible to change the customer assignment as well as the NIC.
  • This feature can be used with SOAP and Batch interface.
• Domain Imports from NIC and DNS
  
  • Domains can be imported by using the DomainImportOrder via SOAP or Batch API. All data than can be obtained from the NIC will be queried automatically, containing contact data, nameservers, authcode etc. Also all resource records will be queried from the authoritative DNS, if a full zone transfer is allowed.
  • This feature can be used to either import new or missing domains in the system, or to synch existing domains with NIC data.
  • The feature is released for the following NICs:   
    • Denic Nic.at RESTENA Switch   Ascio
  • For further information please refer to the DomiNIC Online Documentation, Section 1.10
• Order Approval: Orders selected for approval or refusal are displayed in a list for confirmation.

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