BIND 9.11.2 is now available
Brian Conry
bconry at isc.org
Fri Jul 28 21:03:18 UTC 2017
Release Notes for BIND Version 9.11.2
Introduction
This document summarizes changes since the last production release on
the BIND 9.11 branch. Please see the CHANGES file for a further list of
bug fixes and other changes.
Download
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.
New DNSSEC Root Key
ICANN is in the process of introducing a new Key Signing Key (KSK) for
the global root zone. BIND has multiple methods for managing DNSSEC
trust anchors, with somewhat different behaviors. If the root key is
configured using the managed-keys statement, or if the pre-configured
root key is enabled by using dnssec-validation auto, then BIND can keep
keys up to date automatically. Servers configured in this way should
have begun the process of rolling to the new key when it was published
in the root zone in July 2017. However, keys configured using the
trusted-keys statement are not automatically maintained. If your server
is performing DNSSEC validation and is configured using trusted-keys,
you are advised to change your configuration before the root zone
begins signing with the new KSK. This is currently scheduled for
October 11, 2017.
This release includes an updated version of the bind.keys file
containing the new root key. This file can also be downloaded from
https://www.isc.org/bind-keys .
License Change
With the release of BIND 9.11.0, ISC changed to the open source license
for BIND from the ISC license to the Mozilla Public License (MPL 2.0).
The MPL-2.0 license requires that if you make changes to licensed
software (e.g. BIND) and distribute them outside your organization,
that you publish those changes under that same license. It does not
require that you publish or disclose anything other than the changes
you made to our software.
This new requirement will not affect anyone who is using BIND without
redistributing it, nor anyone redistributing it without changes,
therefore this change will be without consequence for most individuals
and organizations who are using BIND.
Those unsure whether or not the license change affects their use of
BIND, or who wish to discuss how to comply with the license may contact
ISC at https://www.isc.org/mission/contact/.
Windows XP No Longer Supported
As of BIND 9.11.2, Windows XP is no longer a supported platform for
BIND, and Windows XP binaries are no longer available for download from
ISC.
Security Fixes
* An error in TSIG handling could permit unauthorized zone transfers
or zone updates. These flaws are disclosed in CVE-2017-3142 and
CVE-2017-3143. [RT #45383]
* The BIND installer on Windows used an unquoted service path, which
can enable privilege escalation. This flaw is disclosed in
CVE-2017-3141. [RT #45229]
* With certain RPZ configurations, a response with TTL 0 could cause
named to go into an infinite query loop. This flaw is disclosed in
CVE-2017-3140. [RT #45181]
Feature Changes
* dig +ednsopt now accepts the names for EDNS options in addition to
numeric values. For example, an EDNS Client-Subnet option could be
sent using dig +ednsopt=ecs:.... Thanks to John Worley of Secure64
for the contribution. [RT #44461]
* Threads in named are now set to human-readable names to assist
debugging on operating systems that support that. Threads will have
names such as "isc-timer", "isc-sockmgr", "isc-worker0001", and so
on. This will affect the reporting of subsidiary thread names in ps
and top, but not the main thread. [RT #43234]
* DiG now warns about .local queries which are reserved for Multicast
DNS. [RT #44783]
Bug Fixes
* Fixed a bug that was introduced in an earlier development release
which caused multi-packet AXFR and IXFR messages to fail validation
if not all packets contained TSIG records; this caused
interoperability problems with some other DNS implementations. [RT
#45509]
* Reloading or reconfiguring named could fail on some platforms when
LMDB was in use. [RT #45203]
* Due to some incorrectly deleted code, when BIND was built with
LMDB, zones that were deleted via rndc delzone were removed from
the running server but were not removed from the new zone database,
so that deletion did not persist after a server restart. This has
been corrected. [RT #45185]
* Semicolons are no longer escaped when printing CAA and URI records.
This may break applications that depend on the presence of the
backslash before the semicolon. [RT #45216]
* AD could be set on truncated answer with no records present in the
answer and authority sections. [RT #45140]
End of Life
The end of life for BIND 9.11 is yet to be determined but will not be
before BIND 9.13.0 has been released for 6 months.
https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/
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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