This release updates CoreDNS to Go 1.25.2 and golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 to address multiple high-severity CVEs. It also improves core performance by avoiding string concatenation in loops, and hardens the sign plugin by rejecting invalid UTF-8 tokens in dbfile.

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Catena cyber Ville Vesilehto Yong Tang

Noteworthy Changes

• core: Avoid string concatenation in loops (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7572)
• core: Update golang to 1.25.2 and golang.org/x/net to v0.45.0 on CVE fixes (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7598)
• plugin/sign: Reject invalid UTF‑8 dbfile token (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/7589)