New Features
Adds a new configuration option, "check-spf"; valid values are
"warn" (default) and "ignore". When set to "warn", checks SPF
and TXT records in spf format, warning if either resource record
type occurs without a corresponding record of the other resource
record type. [RT #33355]
Adds support for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) resource
records. [RT #23386]
Adds support for the EUI48 and EUI64 RR types. [RT #33082]
Adds support for the RFC 6742 ILNP record types (NID, LP, L32,
and L64). [RT #31836]
Feature Changes
Changes timing of when slave zones send NOTIFY messages after
loading a new copy of the zone. They now send the NOTIFY before
writing the zone data to disk. This will result in quicker
propagation of updates in multi-level server structures. [RT #27242]
"named -V" can now report a source ID string. (This is will be
of most interest to developers and troubleshooters). The source
ID for ISC's production versions of BIND is defined in the "srcid"
file in the build tree and is normally set to the most recent
git hash. [RT #31494]
Response Policy Zone performance enhancements. New "response-policy"
option "min-ns-dots". "nsip" and "nsdname" now enabled by default
with RPZ. [RT #32251]
Approved by: delphij (mentor)
Sponsored by: DK Hostmaster A/S
Removed the check for regex.h in configure in order
to disable regex syntax checking, as it exposes
BIND to a critical flaw in libregex on some
platforms. [RT #32688]
Security: CVE-2013-2266
Approved by: delphij (mentor)
Sponsored by: DK Hostmaster A/S
Feature Change
* BIND now recognizes the TLSA resource record type, created to
support IETF DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities)
Bug Fix
* The locking strategy around the handling of iterative queries
has been tuned to reduce unnecessary contention in a multi-
threaded environment.
Other critical bug fixes are included.
All BIND users are encouraged to upgrade.
This includes a structural change regarding atomic ops. Previously they
were enabled on all platforms unless we had knowledge that they did not
work. However both work performed by marius@ on sparc64 and the fact that
the 9.8.x branch is fussier in this area has demonstrated that this is
not a safe approach. So I've modified a patch provided by marius to
enable them for i386, amd64, and ia64 only.
All 9.6 users with DNSSEC validation enabled should upgrade to this
version, or the latest version in the 9.7 branch, prior to 2011-03-31
in order to avoid validation failures for names in .COM as described
here:
https://www.isc.org/announcement/bind-9-dnssec-validation-fails-new-ds-record
In addition the fixes for this and other bugs, there are also the
following:
* Various fixes to kerberos support, including GSS-TSIG
* Various fixes to avoid leaking memory, and to problems that could
prevent a clean shutdown of named
lots of new features compared to 9.4.x, including:
Full NSEC3 support
Automatic zone re-signing
New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self
DHCID support.
More detailed statistics counters including those supported in BIND 8.
Faster ACL processing.
Efficient LRU cache-cleaning mechanism.
NSID support.
