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<section xml:id="relnotes_intro"><info><title>Introduction</title></info>
<para>
This document summarizes changes since the last production
release on the BIND 9.12 branch. Please see the
<filename>CHANGES</filename> 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="relnotes_security"><info><title>Security Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> could crash during recursive processing
of DNAME records when <command>deny-answer-aliases</command> was
in use. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2018-5740. [GL #387]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When recursion is enabled but the <command>allow-recursion</command>
and <command>allow-query-cache</command> ACLs are not specified, they
should be limited to local networks, but they were inadvertently set
to match the default <command>allow-query</command>, thus allowing
remote queries. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2018-5738. [GL #309]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The serve-stale feature could cause an assertion failure in
rbtdb.c even when stale-answer-enable was false. The
simultaneous use of stale cache records and NSEC aggressive
negative caching could trigger a recursion loop in the
<command>named</command> process. This flaw is disclosed in
CVE-2018-5737. [GL #185]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug in zone database reference counting could lead to a crash
when multiple versions of a slave zone were transferred from a
master in close succession. This flaw is disclosed in
CVE-2018-5736. [GL #134]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_features"><info><title>New Features</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>update-policy</command> rules that otherwise ignore the
name field now require that it be set to "." to ensure that any
type list present is properly interpreted. Previously, if the
name field was omitted from the rule declaration but a type list
was present, it wouldn't be interpreted as expected.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> now supports the "root key sentinel"
mechanism. This enables validating resolvers to indicate
which trust anchors are configured for the root, so that
information about root key rollover status can be gathered.
To disable this feature, add
<command>root-key-sentinel no;</command> to
<filename>named.conf</filename>. [GL #37]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add the ability to not return a DNS COOKIE option when one
is present in the request. To prevent a cookie being returned
add <command>answer-cookie no;</command> to
<filename>named.conf</filename>. [GL #173]
</para>
<para>
<command>answer-cookie no</command> is only intended as a
temporary measure, for use when <command>named</command>
shares an IP address with other servers that do not yet
support DNS COOKIE. A mismatch between servers on the
same address is not expected to cause operational problems,
but the option to disable COOKIE responses so that all
servers have the same behavior is provided out of an
abundance of caution. DNS COOKIE is an important security
mechanism, and should not be disabled unless absolutely
necessary.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Two new update policy rule types have been added
<command>krb5-selfsub</command> and <command>ms-selfsub</command>
which allow machines with Kerberos principals to update
the name space at or below the machine names identified
in the respective principals.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_changes"><info><title>Feature Changes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
BIND now can be compiled against libidn2 library to add
IDNA2008 support. Previously BIND only supported IDNA2003
using (now obsolete) idnkit-1 library.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>dig +noidnin</command> can be used to disable IDN
processing on the input domain name, when BIND is compiled
with IDN support.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The <command>rndc nta</command> command could not differentiate
between views of the same name but different class; this
has been corrected with the addition of a <command>-class</command>
option. [GL #105]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_bugs"><info><title>Bug Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
When a negative trust anchor was added to multiple views
using <command>rndc nta</command>, the text returned via
<command>rndc</command> was incorrectly truncated after the
first line, making it appear that only one NTA had been
added. This has been fixed. [GL #105]
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> now rejects excessively large
incremental (IXFR) zone transfers in order to prevent
possible corruption of journal files which could cause
<command>named</command> to abort when loading zones. [GL #339]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_license"><info><title>License</title></info>
<para>
BIND is open source software licenced under the terms of the Mozilla
Public License, version 2.0 (see the <filename>LICENSE</filename>
file for the full text).
</para>
<para>
The license requires that if you make changes to BIND and distribute
them outside your organization, those changes must be published under
the same license. It does not require that you publish or disclose
anything other than the changes you have made to our software. This
requirement does not affect anyone who is using BIND, with or without
modifications, without redistributing it, nor anyone redistributing
BIND without changes.
</para>
<para>
Those wishing to discuss license compliance may contact ISC at
<link
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:href="https://www.isc.org/mission/contact/">
https://www.isc.org/mission/contact/</link>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="end_of_life"><info><title>End of Life</title></info>
<para>
The end-of-life date for BIND 9.12 has not yet been determined.
However, it is not intended to be an Extended Support Version (ESV)
branch; accordingly, support will end after the next stable
branch (9.14) becomes available. Those needing a longer-lived
branch are encouraged to use the current ESV, BIND 9.11, which
will be supported until 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>
</section>
</section>