New Features
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-- When using :any:`dnssec-policy`, you can now configure the digest type to
- use when ``CDS`` records need to be published with `cds-digest-types`. Also,
- with ``dnssec-signzone -G`` you can set which CDNSKEY/CDS records you want to
- publish. :gl:`#3837`
+- When using :any:`dnssec-policy`, it is now possible to configure the
+ digest type to use when ``CDS`` records need to be published with
+ :any:`cds-digest-types`. Also, publication of specific CDNSKEY/CDS
+ records can now be set with :option:`dnssec-signzone -G`. :gl:`#3837`
Removed Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (and clones) has been dropped.
- A C11 compliant compiler (or better) is now required to compile BIND 9.
+- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (and clones) has been
+ dropped. A C11-compliant compiler is now required to compile BIND 9.
:gl:`#3729`
- The functions that were in the ``libbind9`` shared library have been
- moved to the ``libisc`` and ``libisccfg`` libraries, and the
- now-empty ``libbind9`` has been removed and is no longer installed.
+ moved to the ``libisc`` and ``libisccfg`` libraries. The now-empty
+ ``libbind9`` has been removed and is no longer installed. :gl:`#3903`
- The ``irs_resconf`` module has been moved to the ``libdns`` shared
- library and the now-empty ``libirs`` library has been removed and is
- no longer installed.
+ library. The now-empty ``libirs`` library has been removed and is no
+ longer installed. :gl:`#3904`
Feature Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- libuv support for receiving multiple UDP messages in a single system
- call (``recvmmsg()``) has been tweaked several times between libuv
- versions 1.35.0 and 1.40.0; the recommended libuv version is 1.40.0 or
- higher. New rules are now in effect for running with a different
- version of libuv than the one used at compilation time. These rules
- may trigger a fatal error at startup:
+- libuv support for receiving multiple UDP messages in a single
+ ``recvmmsg()`` system call has been tweaked several times between
+ libuv versions 1.35.0 and 1.40.0; the current recommended libuv
+ version is 1.40.0 or higher. New rules are now in effect for running
+ with a different version of libuv than the one used at compilation
+ time. These rules may trigger a fatal error at startup:
- Building against or running with libuv versions 1.35.0 and 1.36.0 is
now a fatal error.
failure when receiving multiple UDP messages in a single system call.
:gl:`#3840`
-- Run catalog zone updates on the specialized "offload" threads to reduce the
- amount of time they block query processing on the main networking
- threads. This should increase the responsiveness of :iscman:`named`
- when catalog zone updates are being applied after a catalog zone has been
- successfully transferred. :gl:`#3881`
+- Catalog zone updates are now run on specialized "offload" threads to
+ reduce the amount of time they block query processing on the main
+ networking threads. This increases the responsiveness of
+ :iscman:`named` when catalog zone updates are being applied after a
+ catalog zone has been successfully transferred. :gl:`#3881`
Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
-- :iscman:`named` could crash with an assertion failure when adding a new zone
- into the configuration file for a name, which is already configured as a
- member zone for a catalog zone. This has been fixed. :gl:`#3911`
+- :iscman:`named` could crash with an assertion failure when adding a
+ new zone into the configuration file for a name which was already
+ configured as a member zone for a catalog zone. This has been fixed.
+ :gl:`#3911`
Known Issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~