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Introduction BIND 9.12.0 is a new feature release of BIND, still under development. This document summarizes new features and functional changes that have been introduced on this branch. With each development release leading up to the final BIND 9.12.0 release, this document will be updated with additional features added and bugs fixed.
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 Added the ability to specify the maximum number of records permitted in a zone (). This provides a mechanism to block overly large zone transfers, which is a potential risk with slave zones from other parties, as described in CVE-2016-6170. [RT #42143]
New Features The option in the configuration can now take arguments local, iso8601 or iso8601-utc to indicate the format in which the date and time should be logged. For backward compatibility, yes is a synonym for local. [RT #42585]
Feature Changes None.
Bug Fixes None.
End of Life The end of life for BIND 9.12 is yet to be determined but will not be before BIND 9.14.0 has been released for 6 months. https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/
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