NicToolClient Change Log

2.05 Feb 2007

- added support for SRV records (funded by Bryan Sarpad)
- start of HTML cleanups
- - replaced 500+ font tags with a tiny bit of CSS
- - replacing other bits of HTML markup with CSS & JS
- new records in zones named like in-addr.arpa default to PTR record
- Zone record edit form is dynamic, it only shows fields when they are relevant. Example: the Weight field is only available when the MX or SRV record type is selected.
- Only relevant record types are available. Example: PTR records are only available in reverse zones.
- When creating a new record in a reverse zone, the default record type is PTR.

2.04 Jan 2007

- added support for Yahoo Domain Keys (extremely long TXT records)
- new records in zones named like in-addr.arpa default to PTR record

2.03 Tue Apr 19 2005

- new template feature - create a set of zone records when adding new zones (mps)
- a batch add feature - create add a list of new zones using a template (mps)
- added htdocs/zones.cgi, htdocs/templates.cgi, and added template support to htdocs/group_zones.cgi (mps)
- added zone_record_template_list and zone_record_template subs to lib/NicToolClient.pm (mps)
- templates are currently static, meaning you must edit the source code to add or modify them. (mps)
- tracked down and fixed the conditions that caused "use strict" pragma to fail. (mps)

2.02 Fri Oct 1 2004

- added link to license and source on most output templates (aas)
- updated version to 2.02 (mps)
- updated license and source links to open in new window, it's icky when they launch in a frame. (mps)

2.01 Wed Sep 29 2004

- added Affero-GPL license info
- added TXT rr type in NicToolClient.pm
- disabled use strict pragma in htdocs/*.cgi. This causes failures under perl 5.8 due to programming shortcuts used by previous authors. This needs to be fixed eventually.

2.00 Fri Feb 22 2002

updated to work with NicToolServer 2.00

- Permissions for Groups and Users
- Users can't access functions they don't have permission to do
- Edit/Create/Delete/Delegate
- Delegation of Zones and Zone Records
- Delegated Zones and Records have different icons
- Delegation information is viewable on the details page

UI improvements

- the Search box in the Group List can be used to search for Zones instead of Groups (see nictoolclient.conf)
- the "Include subgroups" checkbox in searches can be set to checked by default (see nictoolclient.conf)
- new "exact match" checkbox for quick searches. Can be set to default checked or not. (see nictoolclient.conf)
- new icons :)
- Delegated Zones, records, and pseudo-delegated zones show up differently in the Zones list. Some permissions icons shown in the list for delegated Zones. Number of records delegated shown for pseudo-delegated Zones.
- You can automatically jump to the Zone view of a new Zone after creating it (see nictoolclient.conf)

1.00 Wed Sep 6 2001

- initial release

see also: NicToolServer Changes