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Deprecate and remove support for SPF record type

Open weppos opened this issue 4 months ago • 6 comments

Description

The SPF record type has been deprecated since years. In July, we announced we were going to discontinue support for the SPF record type.

Starting from Sept 8th, we will no longer host SPF records.

We should align erldns and drop support for SPF. This is going to be a major version change.

Expected Behavior or Outcome

  • Support for the SPF record type is removed from erldns.
  • dns_erlang should not be changed

Acceptance Criteria

  • New erldns major version is released, dropping support for SPF record type.

weppos avatar Sep 08 '25 11:09 weppos

This PR removes any SPF records references in the dnstest library: https://github.com/dnsimple/dnstest/pull/34. The change is very simple. @weppos @DXTimer please have a look so we can merge it and proceed.

pawlooss1 avatar Oct 22 '25 09:10 pawlooss1

Second PR ready for review: https://github.com/dnsimple/erldns/pull/282. Quite small, since the only type-specific code was related to encoding/decoding. @weppos @DXTimer

pawlooss1 avatar Oct 23 '25 12:10 pawlooss1

The change is now merged into main branch. @weppos do you want me to create v9.0.0.RC1 release? Also, I see that on GitHub we're missing release v8.1.0 even though the tag was created before - https://github.com/dnsimple/erldns/releases. I could create this release as well beforehand.

pawlooss1 avatar Oct 24 '25 10:10 pawlooss1

The change is now merged into main branch. @weppos do you want me to create v9.0.0.RC1 release? Also, I see that on GitHub we're missing release v8.1.0 even though the tag was created before - https://github.com/dnsimple/erldns/releases. I could create this release as well beforehand.

It looks like we use v9.0.0-rc1, see https://github.com/dnsimple/erldns/tags

I don't believe we create a GitHub "release" for each release tag, just for the major. We can skip 8.1.0.

weppos avatar Oct 24 '25 10:10 weppos

Release v9.0.0-rc1 is now available at hex.pm. After it is tested we can release a stable version and then we'll close this issue.

pawlooss1 avatar Oct 27 '25 12:10 pawlooss1

Unassigning myself since I will no longer work on this. The only thing left to meet the acceptance criteria is to release a stable version (currently it is a release candidate).

pawlooss1 avatar Nov 28 '25 15:11 pawlooss1

@NelsonVides can you please take a look at this ticket. I was under the impression we removed the SPF completely. Perhaps we just needed to rollout v9 (which was done), and if so then this ticket should be closed.

weppos avatar Dec 21 '25 16:12 weppos

It seems perfectly well removed to me and indeed, releasing v9 was enough (v9-rc1 to be precise).

NelsonVides avatar Dec 22 '25 17:12 NelsonVides