This document summarizes changes since the last production
release on the BIND 9.12 branch. Please see the
CHANGES for a further list of bug fixes
and other changes.
The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at http://www.isc.org/downloads/. There you will find additional information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
There was a long-existing flaw in the documentation for ms-self, krb5-self, ms-subdomain, and krb5-subdomain rules in update-policy statements. Though the policies worked as intended, operators who configured their servers according to the misleading documentation may have thought zone updates were more restricted than they were; users of these rule types are advised to review the documentation and correct their configurations if necessary. New rule types matching the previously documented behavior will be introduced in a future maintenance release. [GL !708]
named could crash during recursive processing of DNAME records when deny-answer-aliases was in use. This flaw is disclosed in CVE-2018-5740. [GL #387]
Running rndc reconfig could cause inline-signing to stop signing. [GL #439]
Reloading all zones caused zone maintenance to stop for inline-signing zones. [GL #435]
Signatures loaded from the journal for the signed version inline-signing zone were not scheduled for refresh. [GL #482]
A referral response with a non-empty ANSWER section was incorrectly treated as an error; this caused certain domains to be non-resolvable. [GL #390]
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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 https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/ for details of ISC's software support policy.
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