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Add release notes.
authorOndřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
Mon, 14 May 2018 10:43:19 +0000 (12:43 +0200)
committerWitold Kręcicki <wpk@isc.org>
Wed, 16 May 2018 07:54:35 +0000 (09:54 +0200)
doc/arm/notes.xml

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          implementation of "rbt") has been removed. [GL #217]
        </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+         The <command>-r randomdev</command> option to explicitly select
+         random device has been removed from
+         <command>ddns-confgen</command>,
+         <command>rndc-confgen</command>,
+         <command>nsupdate</command>,
+         <command>dnssec-confgen</command>, and
+         <command>dnssec-signzone</command> commands.
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         The <command>-p</command> option to use pseudo-random data
+         has been removed from <command>dnssec-signzone</command>
+         command.
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </section>
 
   <section xml:id="relnotes_changes"><info><title>Feature Changes</title></info>
     <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+       <para>
+         BIND will now always you use the best CSPRNG
+         (cryptographically-secure pseudo-random number generator)
+         available on the platform where it is compiled.  It will use
+         arc4random() family of functions on BSDs, getrandom() on
+         Linux and Solaris, CryptGenRandom on Windows, and the
+         selected cryptographic library (OpenSSL or PKCS#11) provider
+         as the last resort. [GL #221]
+       </para>
+      </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <para>
          BIND can no longer be built without DNSSEC support. A cryptography