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<section xml:id="relnotes_intro"><info><title>Introduction</title></info>
<para>
BIND 9.14 is a stable branch of BIND.
This document summarizes significant changes since the last
production release on that branch.
<para>
</para>
Please see the file <filename>CHANGES</filename> for a more
detailed list of changes and bug fixes.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_versions"><info><title>Note on Version Numbering</title></info>
<para>
As of BIND 9.13/9.14, BIND has adopted the "odd-unstable/even-stable"
release numbering convention. BIND 9.14 contains new features added
during the BIND 9.13 development process. Henceforth, the 9.14 branch
will be limited to bug fixes and new feature development will proceed
in the unstable 9.15 branch, and so forth.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_platforms"><info><title>Supported Platforms</title></info>
<para>
Since 9.12, BIND has undergone substantial code refactoring and
cleanup, and some very old code has been removed that was needed
to support legacy platforms which are no longer supported by their
vendors and for which ISC is no longer able to perform quality
assurance testing. Specifically, workarounds for old versions of
UnixWare, BSD/OS, AIX, Tru64, SunOS, TruCluster and IRIX have been
removed.
</para>
<para>
On UNIX-like systems, BIND now requires support for POSIX.1c
threads (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995), the Advanced Sockets API for
IPv6 (RFC 3542), and standard atomic operations provided by the
C compiler.
</para>
<para>
More information can be found in the <filename>PLATFORM.md</filename>
file that is included in the source distribution of BIND 9. If your
platform compiler and system libraries provide the above features,
BIND 9 should compile and run. If that isn't the case, the BIND
development team will generally accept patches that add support
for systems that are still supported by their respective vendors.
</para>
<para>
As of BIND 9.14, the BIND development team has also made cryptography
(i.e., TSIG and DNSSEC) an integral part of the DNS server. The
OpenSSL cryptography library must be available for the target
platform. A PKCS#11 provider can be used instead for Public Key
cryptography (i.e., DNSSEC signing and validation), but OpenSSL is
still required for general cryptography operations such as hashing
and random number generation.
</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_features"><info><title>New Features</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The new <command>add-soa</command> option specifies whether
or not the <command>response-policy</command> zone's SOA record
should be included in the additional section of RPZ responses.
[GL #865]
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_changes"><info><title>Feature Changes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
None.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="relnotes_bugs"><info><title>Bug Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The <command>allow-update</command> and
<command>allow-update-forwarding</command> options were
inadvertently treated as configuration errors when used at the
<command>options</command> or <command>view</command> level.
This has now been corrected.
[GL #913]
</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 9.14 has not yet been determined.
For those needing long term support, the current Extended Support
Version (ESV) 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>
</section>
</section>