Release Notes for BIND Version 9.12.2-P2

Introduction

   This document summarizes changes since the last production release on
   the BIND 9.12 branch. Please see the CHANGES 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.

Security Fixes

     * There was a long-existing flaw in the documentation for ms-self,
       krb5-self, ms-subdomain, and krb5-subdomain rules in update-policy
       statements. Though the policies worked as intended, operators who
       configured their servers according to the misleading documentation
       may have thought zone updates were more restricted than they were;
       users of these rule types are advised to review the documentation
       and correct their configurations if necessary. New rule types
       matching the previously documented behavior will be introduced in a
       future maintenance release. [GL !708]
     * named could crash during recursive processing of DNAME records when
       deny-answer-aliases was in use. This flaw is disclosed in
       CVE-2018-5740. [GL #387]

New Features

     * None.

Feature Changes

     * None.

Bug Fixes

     * Running rndc reconfig could cause inline-signing to stop signing.
       [GL #439]
     * Reloading all zones caused zone maintenance to stop for
       inline-signing zones. [GL #435]
     * Signatures loaded from the journal for the signed version
       inline-signing zone were not scheduled for refresh. [GL #482]
     * A referral response with a non-empty ANSWER section was incorrectly
       treated as an error; this caused certain domains to be
       non-resolvable. [GL #390]

License

   BIND is open source software licenced under the terms of the Mozilla
   Public License, version 2.0 (see the LICENSE file for the full text).

   The license requires that if you make changes to BIND and distribute
   them outside your organization, those changes must be published under
   the same license. It does not require that you publish or disclose
   anything other than the changes you have made to our software. This
   requirement does not affect anyone who is using BIND, with or without
   modifications, without redistributing it, nor anyone redistributing
   BIND without changes.

   Those wishing to discuss license compliance may contact ISC at
   https://www.isc.org/mission/contact/.

End of Life

   The end-of-life date for BIND 9.12 has not yet been determined.
   However, it is not intended to be an Extended Support Version (ESV)
   branch; accordingly, support will end after the next stable branch
   (9.14) becomes available. Those needing a longer-lived branch are
   encouraged to use the current ESV, BIND 9.11, which will be supported
   until December 2021. See
   https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/ for details of
   ISC's 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/.