New BIND 9 releases: 9.18.44, 9.20.18, 9.21.17

[Michal Nowak]

On 21/01/2026 15:24, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026, Suzanne Goldlust wrote:
> 
>> ... these releases also contain fixes for a security vulnerability. ...
>>
>>    https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-13878
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>>    - 9.21.17  - https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.21.17/
>> ...
> 
> 
> 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> $ cd bind-9.21.17
> $ meson setup build_dir
> The Meson build system
> Version: 1.0.1
> Source dir: /home/ged/bind-9.21.17
> Build dir: /home/ged/bind-9.21.17/build_dir
> Build type: native build
> 
> meson.build:12:0: ERROR: project keyword argument 'default_options' was 
> of type array[dict] but should have been array[str]
> 
> A full log can be found at /home/ged/bind-9.21.17/build_dir/meson-logs/ 
> meson-log.txt
> $ 8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This has worked OK for bind-9.21.14.  Apart from a timestamp there's
> nothing in meson-log.txt that isn't shown above.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 

Yes, the meson version requirement was bumped to 1.3.0 in BIND 9.21.15.

See https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.21.17/notes.html#id5.