BIND 9.8.7b1 is now available

[Michael McNally]

Introduction

   BIND 9.8.7b1 is the first beta release of BIND 9.8.7.

   This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.8.6 to BIND
   9.8.7b1. There was not a previous development release. Please
   see the CHANGES file in the source code release for a complete
   list of all changes.

Download

   The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found
   on our web site 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.

Support

   Professional support is provided by DNSco. Information about
   paid support options is available at http://www.dns-co.com/solutions/.
   Free support is provided by our user community via a mailing
   list. Information on all public email lists is available at
   https://www.isc.org/community/mailing-list/.

Security Fixes

   Treat an all zero netmask as invalid when generating the
   localnets acl to work around bug on the Windows platform.
   [CVE-2013-6230]  [RT #34687]

Feature Changes

   Add the ability to specify ndots to "nslookup". [RT #34711]

   Check that EDNS subnet client options are well formed. [RT #34718]

   "named" now preserves the capitalization of names when
   responding to queries. [RT #34737]

   Use separate rate limiting queues for refresh and notify
   requests. [RT #30589]

   Adjust when a master server is deemed unreachable to be less
   aggressive. [RT #27075]

   Create delegations for all "children" of empty zones except
   "forward first". [RT #34826]

   Include a comment in .nzf files (used for adding new zones
   via "rndc"), giving the name of the associated view. [RT
   #34765]

   Changed the name of "isc-config.sh" developers script (for
   outputting compiler and linker flags) to "bind9-config". [RT #23825]

   Add "dig" option to keep the TCP socket open between successive
   queries (+[no]keepopen).  [RT #34918]

   "named-checkconf -z" now checks zones of type hint as well
   as master. [RT #35046]

   Update config.guess and config.sub to add support for ppc64le
   (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian). [RT #35060]

   Update the Windows build system to support feature selection
   and WIN64 builds. This is a work in progress. [RT #34160]

   Add a more detailed "not found" message to "rndc" commands
   which specify a zone name. [RT #35059]

Bug Fixes

   Treat type 65533 (KEYDATA) as opaque except when used in a
   key zone. [RT #34238]

   Fix "host" and "nslookup" so don't need dot after the domain
   by checking ndots when searching. Only continue searching on
   NXDOMAIN responses. [RT #34711]

   Handle changes to sig-validity-interval settings better. [RT #34625]

   Fix bug where journal filename string could be set incorrectly,
   causing garbage in log messages. [RT #34738]

   Check that EDNS subnet client options are well formed. [RT #34718]

   Address race condition with manual notify requests. [RT #34806]

   Fix Linux compilation issue when libcap-devel is installed.
   [RT #34838]

   Fix "host" failure if a UDP query timed out. [RT #34870]

   Address bugs in dns_rdata_fromstruct and dns_rdata_tostruct
   for WKS and ISDN types. [RT #34910]

   Updated OpenSSL PKCS#11 patches to fix active list locking
   and other bugs. [RT #34855]

   Fix cast in lex.c which could see 0xff treated as EOF. This
   fixes issue with potential bad data in a database used by DLZ
   or SDB.  [RT #34993]

   Fix build issue on newer FreeBSD needing -lhx509 for GSSAPI
   build. [RT #35001]

   Address read after free in server side of lwres_getrrsetbyname.
   [RT #29075]

   Fix "nsupdate" memory leak if "realm" was used multiple times.
   [RT #35073]

   Fix "dig" for cleaning up TCP sockets still waiting on
   connect(). [RT #35074]

   Address bug in libdns loadnode function that could return a
   freed node on out of memory. [RT #35106]

Thank You

   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 http://www.isc.org/donate/.

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