BIND 9.13 features
-BIND 9.13.0 is the newest development branch of BIND 9. It includes a
-number of changes from BIND 9.12 and earlier releases. New features
-include:
-
- * TBD
+BIND 9.13 is the newest development branch of BIND 9. It includes a number
+of changes from BIND 9.12 and earlier releases. New features include:
+
+ * Support for IDNA2008 when linking with libidn2.
+ * "Root key sentinel" support, enabling validating resolvers to indicate
+ via a special query which trust anchors are configured for the root
+ zone.
+
+In addition, cryptographic support has been modernized. BIND now uses the
+best available pseudo-random number generator for the platform on which
+it's built. Very old versions of OpenSSL are no longer supported.
+Cryptography is now mandatory; building BIND without DNSSEC is now longer
+supported.
Building BIND
### <a name="features"/> BIND 9.13 features
-BIND 9.13.0 is the newest development branch of BIND 9. It includes a
+BIND 9.13 is the newest development branch of BIND 9. It includes a
number of changes from BIND 9.12 and earlier releases. New features
include:
-* TBD
+* Support for IDNA2008 when linking with `libidn2`.
+* "Root key sentinel" support, enabling validating resolvers to indicate
+ via a special query which trust anchors are configured for the root zone.
+
+In addition, cryptographic support has been modernized. BIND now uses the
+best available pseudo-random number generator for the platform on which
+it's built. Very old versions of OpenSSL are no longer supported.
+Cryptography is now mandatory; building BIND without DNSSEC is now
+longer supported.
### <a name="build"/> Building BIND
<listitem>
<para>
<command>named</command> now supports the "root key sentinel"
- mechanism. This enables validating resolvers to indicate to
+ mechanism. This enables validating resolvers to indicate
which trust anchors are configured for the root, so that
information about root key rollover status can be gathered.
To disable this feature, add