From: Mark Andrews (Mark_Andrewsisc.org)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 15:07:05 CST

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                BIND 9.5.0a7 is now available.

BIND 9.5.0a7 is a alpha release for BIND 9.5.0.

        This is a technology preview of new functionality to be be
        released in BIND 9.5.0. New APIs are not yet frozen.
        
        Please as a minimum perform a test build on your operating
        system. We don't have test platforms for every operating
        system and sometimes we accidently break builds. Now is
        the time to tell us about that. bind9-bugsisc.org.

        Bugs should be reported to bind9-bugsisc.org.

BIND 9.5 has a number of new features over BIND 9.4, including:

        BIND 9.5.0 has a number of new features over 9.4,
        including:

        GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645).

        DHCID support.

        Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml.

        Use Doxygen to generate internal documention.

BIND 9.5.0a7 can be downloaded from

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/bind-9.5.0a7.tar.gz

The PGP signature of the distribution is at

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/bind-9.5.0a7.tar.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/bind-9.5.0a7.tar.gz.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/bind-9.5.0a7.tar.gz.sha512.asc

The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is
available at <http://www.isc.org/about/openpgp/pgpkey2006.txt>.

A binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window 2003 is at

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.zip
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.debug.zip

The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and
Window 2003 is at
        
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.zip.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.zip.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.zip.sha512.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.debug.zip.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.debug.zip.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0a7/BIND9.5.0a7.debug.zip.sha512.asc

Changes since 9.5.0a1

        --- 9.5.0a7 released ---

2258. [bug] Fallback from IXFR/TSIG to SOA/AXFR/TSIG broken.
                        [RT #17241]

2257. [bug] win32: Use the full path to vcredist_x86.exe when
                        calling it. [RT #17222]

2256. [bug] win32: Correctly register the installation location of
                        bindevt.dll. [RT #17159]

2255. [bug] L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET is now 199.7.83.42.

2254. [bug] timer.c:dispatch() failed to lock timer->lock
                        when reading timer->idle allowing it to see
                        intermediate values as timer->idle was reset by
                        isc_timer_touch(). [RT #17243]

2253. [func] "max-cache-size" defaults to 32M.
                        "max-acache-size" defaults to 16M.

2252. [bug] Fixed errors in sortlist code [RT #17216]

2251. [placeholder]

2250. [func] New flag 'memstatistics' to state whether the
                        memory statistics file should be written or not.
                        Additionally named's -m option will cause the
                        statistics file to be written. [RT #17113]
                        
2249. [bug] Only set Authentic Data bit if client requested
                        DNSSEC, per RFC 3655 [RT #17175]

2248. [cleanup] Fix several errors reported by Coverity. [RT #17160]

2247. [doc] Sort doc/misc/options. [RT #17067]

2246. [bug] Make the startup of test servers (ans.pl) more
                        robust. [RT #17147]

2245. [bug] Validating lack of DS records at trust anchors wasn't
                        working. [RT #17151]

2244. [func] Allow the check of nameserver names against the
                        SOA MNAME field to be disabled by specifying
                        'notify-to-soa yes;'. [RT #17073]

2243. [func] Configuration files without a newline at the end now
                        parse without error. [RT #17120]

2242. [bug] nsupdate: GSS-TSIG support using the Heimdal Kerberos
                        library could require a source of random data.
                        [RT #17127]

2241. [func] nsupdate: add a interative 'help' command. [RT #17099]

2240. [bug] Cleanup nsupdates GSS-TSIG support. Convert
                        a number of INSIST()s into plain fatal() errors
                        which report the triggering result code.
                        The 'key' command wasn't disabling GSS-TSIG.
                        [RT #17099]

2239. [func] Ship a prebuilt bin/named/bind9.xsl.h. [RT #17114]

2238. [bug] It was possible to trigger a REQUIRE when a
                        validation was cancelled. [RT #17106]

2237. [bug] libbind: res_init() was not thread aware. [RT #17123]

2236. [bug] dnssec-signzone failed to preserve the case of
                        of wildcard owner names. [RT #17085]

2235. [bug] <isc/atomic.h> was not being installed. [RT #17135]

2234. [port] Correct some compiler warnings on SCO OSr5 [RT #17134]
  
2233. [func] Add support for O(1) ACL processing, based on
                        radix tree code originally written by kevin
                        brintnall. [RT #16288]

2232. [bug] dns_adb_findaddrinfo() could fail and return
                        ISC_R_SUCCESS. [RT #17137]

2231. [bug] Building dlzbdb (contrib/dlz/bin/dlzbdb) was broken.
                        [RT #17088]

2230. [bug] We could INSIST reading a corrupted journal.
                        [RT #17132]

2229. [bug] Null pointer dereference on query pool creation
                        failure. [RT #17133]

2228. [contrib] contrib: Change 2188 was incomplete.

2227. [cleanup] Tidied up the FAQ. [RT #17121]

2226. [placeholder]

2225. [bug] More support for systems with no IPv4 addresses.
                        [RT #17111]

2224. [bug] Defer journal compaction if a xfrin is in progress.
                        [RT #17119]

2223. [bug] Make a new journal when compacting. [RT #17119]

2222. [func] named-checkconf now checks server key references.
                        [RT #17097]

2221. [bug] Set the event result code to reflect the actual
                        record turned to caller when a cache update is
                        rejected due to a more credible answer existing.
                        [RT #17017]

2220. [bug] win32: Address a race condition in final shutdown of
                        the Windows socket code. [RT #17028]
                        
2219. [bug] Apply zone consistancy checks to additions, not
                        removals, when updating. [RT #17049]

2218. [bug] Remove unnecessary REQUIRE from dns_validator_create().
                        [RT #16976]

2217. [func] Adjust update log levels. [RT #17092]

2216. [cleanup] Fix a number of errors reported by Coverity.
                        [RT #17094]

2215. [bug] Bad REQUIRE check isc_hmacsha1_verify(). [RT #17094]

2214. [bug] Deregister OpenSSL lock callback when cleaning
                        up. Reorder OpenSSL cleanup so that RAND_cleanup()
                        is called before the locks are destroyed. [RT #17098]

2213. [bug] SIG0 diagnostic failure messages were looking at the
                        wrong status code. [RT #17101]

2212. [func] 'host -m' now causes memory statistics and active
                        memory to be printed at exit. [RT 17028]

2211. [func] Update "dynamic update temporarily disabled" message.
                        [RT #17065]

2210. [bug] Deleting class specific records via UPDATE could
                        fail. [RT #17074]

2209. [port] osx: linking against user supplied static OpenSSL
                        libraries failed as the system ones were still being
                        found. [RT #17078]

2208. [port] win32: make sure both build methods produce the
                        same output. [RT #17058]

2207. [port] Some implementations of getaddrinfo() fail to set
                        ai_canonname correctly. [RT #17061]

        --- 9.5.0a6 released ---

2206. [security] "allow-query-cache" and "allow-recursion" now
                        cross inherit from each other.

                        If allow-query-cache is not set in named.conf then
                        allow-recursion is used if set, otherwise allow-query
                        is used if set, otherwise the default (localnets;
                        localhost;) is used.

                        If allow-recursion is not set in named.conf then
                        allow-query-cache is used if set, otherwise allow-query
                        is used if set, otherwise the default (localnets;
                        localhost;) is used.

                        [RT #16987]
        
2205. [bug] libbind: change #2119 broke thread support. [RT #16982]

2204. [bug] "rndc flushanme name unknown-view" caused named
                        to crash. [RT #16984]

2203. [security] Query id generation was cryptographically weak.
                        [RT # 16915]

2202. [security] The default acls for allow-query-cache and
                        allow-recursion were not being applied. [RT #16960]

2201. [bug] The build failed in a separate object directory.
                        [RT #16943]

2200. [bug] The search for cached NSEC records was stopping to
                        early leading to excessive DLV queries. [RT #16930]

2199. [bug] win32: don't call WSAStartup() while loading dlls.
                        [RT #16911]

2198. [bug] win32: RegCloseKey() could be called when
                        RegOpenKeyEx() failed. [RT #16911]

2197. [bug] Add INSIST to catch negative responses which are
                        not setting the event result code appropriately.
                        [RT #16909]

2196. [port] win32: yield processor while waiting for once to
                        to complete. [RT #16958]

2195. [func] dnssec-keygen now defaults to nametype "ZONE"
                        when generating DNSKEYs. [RT #16954]

2194. [bug] Close journal before calling 'done' in xfrin.c.

        --- 9.5.0a5 released ---

2193. [port] win32: BINDInstall.exe is now linked statically.
                        [RT #16906]

2192. [port] win32: use vcredist_x86.exe to install Visual
                        Studio's redistributable dlls if building with
                        Visual Stdio 2005 or later.

2191. [func] named-checkzone now allows dumping to stdout (-).
                        named-checkconf now has -h for help.
                        named-checkzone now has -h for help.
                        rndc now has -h for help.
                        Better handling of '-?' for usage summaries.
                        [RT #16707]

2190. [func] Make fallback to plain DNS from EDNS due to timeouts
                        more visible. New logging category "edns-disabled".
                        [RT #16871]

2189. [bug] Handle socket() returning EINTR. [RT #15949]

2188. [contrib] queryperf: autoconf changes to make the search for
                        libresolv or libbind more robust. [RT #16299]

2187. [bug] query_addds(), query_addwildcardproof() and
                        query_addnxrrsetnsec() should take a version
                        arguement. [RT #16368]

2186. [port] cygwin: libbind: check for struct sockaddr_storage
                        independently of IPv6. [RT #16482]

2185. [port] sunos: libbind: check for ssize_t, memmove() and
                        memchr(). [RT #16463]

2184. [bug] bind9.xsl.h didn't build out of the source tree.
                        [RT #16830]

2183. [bug] dnssec-signzone didn't handle offline private keys
                        well. [RT #16832]

2182. [bug] dns_dispatch_createtcp() and dispatch_createudp()
                        could return ISC_R_SUCCESS when they ran out of
                        memory. [RT #16365]

2181. [port] sunos: libbind: add paths.h from BIND 8. [RT #16462]

2180. [cleanup] Remove bit test from 'compress_test' as they
                        are no longer needed. [RT #16497]

2179. [func] 'rndc command zone' will now find 'zone' if it is
                        unique to all the views. [RT #16821]

2178. [bug] 'rndc reload' of a slave or stub zone resulted in
                        a reference leak. [RT #16867]

2177. [bug] Array bounds overrun on read (rcodetext) at
                        debug level 10+. [RT #16798]

2176. [contrib] dbus update to handle race condition during
                        initialisation (Bugzilla 235809). [RT #16842]

2175. [bug] win32: windows broadcast condition variable support
                        was broken. [RT #16592]

2174. [bug] I/O errors should always be fatal when reading
                        master files. [RT #16825]

2173. [port] win32: When compiling with MSVS 2005 SP1 we also
                        need to ship Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC.

        --- 9.5.0a4 released ---

2172. [bug] query_addsoa() was being called with a non zone db.
                        [RT #16834]

2171. [bug] Handle breaks in DNSSEC trust chains where the parent
                        servers are not DS aware (DS queries to the parent
                        return a referral to the child).

2170. [func] Add acache processing to test suite. [RT #16711]

2169. [bug] host, nslookup: when reporting NXDOMAIN report the
                        given name and not the last name searched for.
                        [RT #16763]

2168. [bug] nsupdate: in non-interactive mode treat syntax errors
                        as fatal errors. [RT #16785]

2167. [bug] When re-using a automatic zone named failed to
                        attach it to the new view. [RT #16786]

        --- 9.5.0a3 released ---

2166. [bug] When running in batch mode, dig could misinterpret
                        a server address as a name to be looked up, causing
                        unexpected output. [RT #16743]

2165. [func] Allow the destination address of a query to determine
                        if we will answer the query or recurse.
                        allow-query-on, allow-recursion-on and
                        allow-query-cache-on. [RT #16291]

2164. [bug] The code to determine how named-checkzone /
                        named-compilezone was called failed under windows.
                        [RT #16764]

2163. [bug] If only one of query-source and query-source-v6
                        specified a port the query pools code broke (change
                        2129). [RT #16768]

2162. [func] Allow "rrset-order fixed" to be disabled at compile
                        time. [RT #16665]

2161. [bug] Fix which log messages are emitted for 'rndc flush'.
                        [RT #16698]

2160. [bug] libisc wasn't handling NULL ifa_addr pointers returned
                        from getifaddrs(). [RT #16708]

        --- 9.5.0a2 released ---

2159. [bug] Array bounds overrun in acache processing. [RT #16710]

2158. [bug] ns_client_isself() failed to initialise key
                        leading to a REQUIRE failure. [RT #16688]

2157. [func] dns_db_transfernode() created. [RT #16685]

2156. [bug] Fix node reference leaks in lookup.c:lookup_find(),
                        resolver.c:validated() and resolver.c:cache_name().
                        Fix a memory leak in rbtdb.c:free_noqname().
                        Make lookup.c:lookup_find() robust against
                        event leaks. [RT #16685]

2155. [contrib] SQLite sdb module from jaboydjrnetwalk.com.
                        [RT #16694]

2154. [func] Scoped (e.g. IPv6 link-local) addresses may now be
                        matched in acls by omitting the scope. [RT #16599]

2153. [bug] nsupdate could leak memory. [RT #16691]

2152. [cleanup] Use sizeof(buf) instead of fixed number in
                        dighost.c:get_trusted_key(). [RT #16678]

2151. [bug] Missing newline in usage message for journalprint.
                        [RT #16679]

2150. [bug] 'rrset-order cyclic' uniformly distribute the
                        starting point for the first response for a given
                        RRset. [RT #16655]

2149. [bug] isc_mem_checkdestroyed() failed to abort on
                        if there were still active memory contexts.
                        [RT #16672]

2148. [func] Add positive logging for rndc commands. [RT #14623]

2147. [bug] libbind: remove potential buffer overflow from
                        hmac_link.c. [RT #16437]

2146. [cleanup] Silence Linux's spurious "obsolete setsockopt
                        SO_BSDCOMPAT" message. [RT #16641]

2145. [bug] Check DS/DLV digest lengths for known digests.
                        [RT #16622]

2144. [cleanup] Suppress logging of SERVFAIL from forwarders.
                        [RT #16619]

2143. [bug] We failed to restart the IPv6 client when the
                        kernel failed to return the destination the
                        packet was sent to. [RT #16613]

2142. [bug] Handle master files with a modification time that
                        matches the epoch. [RT# 16612]

2141. [bug] dig/host should not be setting IDN_ASCCHECK (IDN
                        equivalent of LDH checks). [RT #16609]

2140. [bug] libbind: missing unlock on pthread_key_create()
                        failures. [RT #16654]

2139. [bug] dns_view_find() was being called with wrong type
                        in adb.c. [RT #16670]

2138. [bug] Lock order reversal in resolver.c. [RT #16653]

2137. [port] Mips little endian and/or mips 64 bit are now
                        supported for atomic operations. [RT#16648]

2136. [bug] nslookup/host looped if there was no search list
                        and the host didn't exist. [RT #16657]

2135. [bug] Uninitialised rdataset in sdlz.c. [RT# 16656]

2134. [func] Additional statistics support. [RT #16666]

2133. [port] powerpc: Support both IBM and MacOS Power PC
                        assembler syntaxes. [RT #16647]

2132. [bug] Missing unlock on out of memory in
                        dns_dispatchmgr_setudp().

2131. [contrib] dlz/mysql: AXFR was broken. [RT #16630]

2130. [func] Log if CD or DO were set. [RT #16640]

2129. [func] Provide a pool of UDP sockets for queries to be
                        made over. See use-queryport-pool, queryport-pool-ports
                        and queryport-pool-updateinterval. [RT #16415]

2128. [doc] xsltproc --nonet, update DTD versions. [RT #16635]

2127. [port] Improved OpenSSL 0.9.8 support. [RT #16563]

2126. [security] Serialise validation of type ANY responses. [RT #16555]

2125. [bug] dns_zone_getzeronosoattl() REQUIRE failure if DLZ
                        was defined. [RT #16574]

2124. [security] It was possible to dereference a freed fetch
                        context. [RT #16584]

        --- 9.5.0a1 released ---

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