One hundred and seventy-eight tickets were resolved with 9.9.10, 9.10.5, 9.10.5-S and 9.11.1.
35 of these were minor features or feature changes and 13 were test items.
We incorporated 15 submitted patches, contributed by:
- Hannes Frederic Sowa (Use IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT if available)
- Thomas Anderson (fixing a build failure problem)
- LaMont Jones “This patch has been kicking around in the Debian tree for quite some time.”
- Tony Finch (no fewer than NINE changes from Tony!)
- Stacey Jonathan Marshall – Solaris Software (Allow krb5-config to be used when configuring gssapi.)
- Xose Vazquez Perez – making sure we were aware of the IPv6 address for G.root
- Petr Spacek – from when he was still at RedHat (we were sorry to see him leave!)
The Subscriber Preview edition, 9.10.5-S included two very significant changes:
- EDNS Client-Subnet Identifier (ECS) for caching resolver operations
- Our implementation uses a white-list to identify servers to send client-subnet information to
- Naturally we also respect the client signalling requesting privacy
- Because this is not yet available in our open source, we have a link HERE to the relevant section of the ARM for this new feature
- Newly re-written Response Policy Zones (RPZ) engine
- The re-implemented RPZ is 100% backwards compatible with the older RPZ implementation (according to our tests, please let ys know if you find any differently!)
- We have eliminated the blocking that could occur when processing large RPZ updates, significantly improving usability for heavily-loaded systems.
- This is the first installment of our 2017 BIND refactoring effort. There is more to come in BIND 9.12.
April 19, 2017