ISC BIND 9.5.0rc1 is now available

[Evan Hunt]

		BIND 9.5.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available.

BIND 9.5.0rc1 is the first release candidate for BIND 9.5.0.

BIND 9.5 has a number of new features over BIND 9.4, including:

      - GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645).
      - DHCID support.
      - Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml.
      - More detailed statistics counters, compatible with
        the ones supported in BIND 8.
      - Faster ACL processing.
      - Use of Doxygen to generate internal documention.
      - Efficient LRU cache cleaning mechanism.
      - NSID support (RFC5001).

BIND 9.5.0rc1 can be downloaded from

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/bind-9.5.0rc1.tar.gz

The PGP signature of the distribution is at

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/bind-9.5.0rc1.tar.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/bind-9.5.0rc1.tar.gz.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/bind-9.5.0rc1.tar.gz.sha512.asc

The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is
available at <http://www.isc.org/about/openpgp/pgpkey2006.txt>.

A binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window 2003 is at

	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.zip
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.debug.zip

The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and
Window 2003 is at
        
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.zip.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.zip.sha256.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.zip.sha512.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.debug.zip.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.debug.zip.sha256.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0rc1/BIND9.5.0rc1.debug.zip.sha512.asc

Changes since 9.5.0b3:

	--- 9.5.0rc1 released ---

2368.   [port]          Linux: use libcap for capability management if
                        possible. [RT# 18026]

2367.   [bug]           Improve counting of dns_resstatscounter_retry
                        [RT #18030]

2366.	[bug]		Adb shutdown race. [RT #18021]

2365.   [bug]           Fix a bug that caused dns_acl_isany() to return
                        spurious results. [RT #18000]

2364.	[bug]		named could trigger a assertion when serving a
			malformed signed zone. [RT #17828]

2363.	[port]		sunos: pre-set "lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=4096;".
			[RT #17513]

2362.   [cleanup]       Make "rrset-order fixed" a compile-time option.
                        settable by "./configure --enable-fixed-rrset".
                        Disabled by default. [RT #17977]

2361.	[bug]		"recursion" statistics counter could be counted
			multiple times for a single query.  [RT #17990]

-- 
Evan Hunt -- evan_hunt at isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.