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<section xml:id="relnotes_intro"><info><title>Introduction</title></info>
<para>
This document summarizes significant changes since the last
production release of BIND on the corresponding major release
branch.
Please see the CHANGES file for a further list of bug fixes and
other changes.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_download"><info><title>Download</title></info>
<para>
The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at
<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.isc.org/downloads/">http://www.isc.org/downloads/</link>.
There you will find additional information about each release,
source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows
operating systems.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="win_support"><info><title>Legacy Windows No Longer Supported</title></info>
<para>
As of BIND 9.9.11, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are no longer supported
platforms for BIND; "XP" binaries are no longer available for download
from ISC.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_security"><info><title>Security Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
An error in TSIG handling could permit unauthorized zone
transfers or zone updates. These flaws are disclosed in
CVE-2017-3142 and CVE-2017-3143. [RT #45383]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The BIND installer on Windows used an unquoted service path,
which can enable privilege escalation. This flaw is disclosed
in CVE-2017-3141. [RT #45229]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
With certain RPZ configurations, a response with TTL 0
could cause <command>named</command> to go into an infinite
query loop. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2017-3140.
[RT #45181]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Addresses could be referenced after being freed during resolver
processing, causing an assertion failure. The chances of this
happening were remote, but the introduction of a delay in
resolution increased them. This bug is disclosed in
CVE-2017-3145. [RT #46839]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
update-policy rules that otherwise ignore the name field now
require that it be set to "." to ensure that any type list
present is properly interpreted. If the name field was omitted
from the rule declaration and a type list was present it wouldn't
be interpreted as expected.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_removed"><info><title>Removed Features</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The ISC DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) service has
been shut down; all DLV records in the dlv.isc.org zone
have been removed. References to the service have been
removed from BIND documentation. Lookaside validation
is no longer used by default by <command>delv</command>.
The DLV key has been removed from <filename>bind.keys</filename>.
Setting <command>dnssec-lookaside</command> to
<command>auto</command> or to use dlv.isc.org as a trust
anchor results in a warning being issued.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="proto_changes"><info><title>Protocol Changes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
BIND can now use the Ed25519 and Ed448 Edwards Curve DNSSEC
signing algorithms described in RFC 8080. Note, however, that
these algorithms must be supported in OpenSSL;
currently they are only available in the development branch
of OpenSSL at
<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl">
https://github.com/openssl/openssl</link>.
[RT #44696]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When parsing DNS messages, EDNS KEY TAG options are checked
for correctness. When printing messages (for example, in
<command>dig</command>), EDNS KEY TAG options are printed
in readable format.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>rndc reload</command> could cause <command>named</command>
to leak memory if it was invoked before the zone loading actions
from a previous <command>rndc reload</command> command were
completed. [RT #47076]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_changes"><info><title>Feature Changes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> will no longer start or accept
reconfiguration if <command>managed-keys</command> or
<command>dnssec-validation auto</command> are in use and
the managed-keys directory (specified by
<command>managed-keys-directory</command>, and defaulting
to the working directory if not specified),
is not writable by the effective user ID. [RT #46077]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Previously, <command>update-policy local;</command> accepted
updates from any source so long as they were signed by the
locally-generated session key. This has been further restricted;
updates are now only accepted from locally configured addresses.
[RT #45492]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Threads in <command>named</command> are now set to human-readable
names to assist debugging on operating systems that support that.
Threads will have names such as "isc-timer", "isc-sockmgr",
"isc-worker0001", and so on. This will affect the reporting of
subsidiary thread names in <command>ps</command> and
<command>top</command>, but not the main thread. [RT #43234]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
DiG now warns about .local queries which are reserved for
Multicast DNS. [RT #44783]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_bugs"><info><title>Bug Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Attempting to validate improperly unsigned CNAME responses
from secure zones could cause a validator loop. This caused
a delay in returning SERVFAIL and also increased the chances
of encountering the crash bug described in CVE-2017-3145.
[RT #46839]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When <command>named</command> was reconfigured, failure of some
zones to load correctly could leave the system in an inconsistent
state; while generally harmless, this could lead to a crash later
when using <command>rndc addzone</command>. Reconfiguration changes
are now fully rolled back in the event of failure. [RT #45841]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fixed a bug that was introduced in an earlier development
release which caused multi-packet AXFR and IXFR messages to fail
validation if not all packets contained TSIG records; this
caused interoperability problems with some other DNS
implementations. [RT #45509]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Semicolons are no longer escaped when printing CAA and
URI records. This may break applications that depend on the
presence of the backslash before the semicolon. [RT #45216]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
AD could be set on truncated answer with no records present
in the answer and authority sections. [RT #45140]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Some header files included &lt;isc/util.h&gt; incorrectly as
it pollutes with namespace with non ISC_ macros and this should
only be done by explicitly including &lt;isc/util.h&gt;. This
has been corrected. Some code may depend on &lt;isc/util.h&gt;
being implicitly included via other header files. Such
code should explicitly include &lt;isc/util.h&gt;.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Zones created with <command>rndc addzone</command> could
temporarily fail to inherit the <command>allow-transfer</command>
ACL set in the <command>options</command> section of
<filename>named.conf</filename>. [RT #46603]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> failed to properly determine whether
there were active KSK and ZSK keys for an algorithm when
<command>update-check-ksk</command> was true (which is the
default setting). This could leave records unsigned
when rolling keys. [RT #46743] [RT #46754] [RT #46774]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="end_of_life"><info><title>End of Life</title></info>
<para>
BIND 9.9 (Extended Support Version) will be supported until
June, 2018, at which time one final maintenance release will be
published for the branch. The new Extended Support Version is BIND
9.11, which will be supported until at least December, 2021.
See <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/">https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/</link> for details of ISC's software support policy.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_thanks"><info><title>Thank You</title></info>
<para>
Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible.
If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to
make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at
<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.isc.org/donate/">http://www.isc.org/donate/</link>.
</para>
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