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diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-9.16.4.rst b/doc/notes/notes-9.16.4.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dd03f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/notes/notes-9.16.4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +.. Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") +.. +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 +.. +.. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public +.. License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this +.. file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. +.. +.. See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional +.. information regarding copyright ownership. + +Notes for BIND 9.16.4 +--------------------- + +Security Fixes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- It was possible to trigger an assertion when attempting to fill an + oversized TCP buffer. This was disclosed in CVE-2020-8618. + :gl:`#1850` + +- It was possible to trigger an INSIST failure when a zone with an + interior wildcard label was queried in a certain pattern. This was + disclosed in CVE-2020-8619. :gl:`#1111` :gl:`#1718` + +New Features +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Documentation was converted from DocBook to reStructuredText. The + BIND 9 ARM is now generated using Sphinx and published on `Read the + Docs`_. Release notes are no longer available as a separate document + accompanying a release. :gl:`#83` + +- ``named`` and ``named-checkzone`` now reject master zones that have a + DS RRset at the zone apex. Attempts to add DS records at the zone + apex via UPDATE will be logged but otherwise ignored. DS records + belong in the parent zone, not at the zone apex. :gl:`#1798` + +- ``dig`` and other tools can now print the Extended DNS Error (EDE) + option when it appears in a request or a response. :gl:`#1835` + +Feature Changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- The default value of ``max-stale-ttl`` has changed from 1 week to 12 + hours. This option controls how long ``named`` retains expired RRsets + in cache as a potential mitigation mechanism, should there be a + problem with one or more domains. Note that cache content retention + is independent of whether stale answers are used in response to + client queries (``stale-answer-enable yes|no`` and ``rndc serve-stale + on|off``). Serving of stale answers when the authoritative servers + are not responding must be explicitly enabled, whereas the retention + of expired cache content takes place automatically on all versions of + BIND 9 that have this feature available. :gl:`#1877` + + .. warning:: + This change may be significant for administrators who expect that + stale cache content will be automatically retained for up to 1 + week. Add option ``max-stale-ttl 1w;`` to ``named.conf`` to keep + the previous behavior of ``named``. + +- ``listen-on-v6 { any; }`` creates a separate socket for each + interface. Previously, just one socket was created on systems + conforming to :rfc:`3493` and :rfc:`3542`. This change was introduced + in BIND 9.16.0, but it was accidentally omitted from documentation. + :gl:`#1782` + +Bug Fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +- When fully updating the NSEC3 chain for a large zone via IXFR, a + temporary loss of performance could be experienced on the secondary + server when answering queries for nonexistent data that required + DNSSEC proof of non-existence (in other words, queries that required + the server to find and to return NSEC3 data). The unnecessary + processing step that was causing this delay has now been removed. + :gl:`#1834` + +- ``named`` could crash with an assertion failure if the name of a + database node was looked up while the database was being modified. + :gl:`#1857` + +- A possible deadlock in ``lib/isc/unix/socket.c`` was fixed. + :gl:`#1859` + +- Previously, ``named`` did not destroy some mutexes and conditional + variables in netmgr code, which caused a memory leak on FreeBSD. This + has been fixed. :gl:`#1893` + +- A data race in ``lib/dns/resolver.c:log_formerr()`` that could lead + to an assertion failure was fixed. :gl:`#1808` + +- Previously, ``provide-ixfr no;`` failed to return up-to-date + responses when the serial number was greater than or equal to the + current serial number. :gl:`#1714` + +- A bug in dnssec-policy keymgr was fixed, where the check for the + existence of a given key's successor would incorrectly return + ``true`` if any other key in the keyring had a successor. :gl:`#1845` + +- With dnssec-policy, when creating a successor key, the "goal" state + of the current active key (the predecessor) was not changed and thus + never removed from the zone. :gl:`#1846` + +- ``named-checkconf -p`` could include spurious text in + ``server-addresses`` statements due to an uninitialized DSCP value. + This has been fixed. :gl:`#1812` + +- The ARM has been updated to indicate that the TSIG session key is + generated when named starts, regardless of whether it is needed. + :gl:`#1842` + +Known Issues +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- There are no new known issues with this release. See :ref:`above + <relnotes_known_issues>` for a list of all known issues affecting + this BIND 9 branch. + +.. _Read the Docs: https://bind9.readthedocs.io/ |