If the bug you are reporting is a potential security issue, such as an
assertion failure or other crash in named, please do NOT use GitLab to
-report it. Instead, please send mail to security-officer@isc.org.
+report it. Instead, send mail to security-officer@isc.org using our
+OpenPGP key to secure your message. (Information about OpenPGP and links
+to our key can be found at https://www.isc.org/pgpkey.) Please do not
+discuss the bug on any public mailing list.
For a general overview of ISC security policies, read the Knowledge Base
article at https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861.
BIND 9.11.14 is a maintenance release.
+BIND 9.11.15
+
+BIND 9.11.15 is a maintenance release.
+
Building BIND
Minimally, BIND requires a UNIX or Linux system with an ANSI C compiler,
make depend. If you're using Emacs, you might find make tags helpful.
Several environment variables that can be set before running configure
-will affect compilation:
+will affect compilation. Significant ones are:
Variable Description
CC The C compiler to use. configure tries to figure out the
BUILD_LDFLAGS LDFLAGS for the target system during cross-compiling.
BUILD_LIBS LIBS for the target system during cross-compiling.
+Additional environment variables affecting the build are listed at the end
+of the configure help text, which can be obtained by running the command:
+
+$ ./configure --help
+
On platforms where neither the C11 Atomic operations library nor custom
ISC atomic operations are available, updating the statistics counters is
not locked due to performance reasons and therefore the counters might be
macOS
Building on macOS assumes that the "Command Tools for Xcode" is installed.
-This can be downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ or
-if you have Xcode already installed you can run xcode-select --install.
+This can be downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ or,
+if you have Xcode already installed, you can run xcode-select --install.
+(Note that an Apple ID may be required to access the download page.)
Dependencies
If the bug you are reporting is a potential security issue, such as an
assertion failure or other crash in `named`, please do *NOT* use GitLab to
-report it. Instead, please send mail to
-[security-officer@isc.org](mailto:security-officer@isc.org).
+report it. Instead, send mail to
+[security-officer@isc.org](mailto:security-officer@isc.org) using our
+OpenPGP key to secure your message. (Information about OpenPGP and links
+to our key can be found at
+[https://www.isc.org/pgpkey](https://www.isc.org/pgpkey).) Please do not
+discuss the bug on any public mailing list.
For a general overview of ISC security policies, read the Knowledge Base
article at [https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861](https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861).
BIND 9.11.14 is a maintenance release.
+#### BIND 9.11.15
+
+BIND 9.11.15 is a maintenance release.
+
### <a name="build"/> Building BIND
Minimally, BIND requires a UNIX or Linux system with an ANSI C compiler,
`make depend`. If you're using Emacs, you might find `make tags` helpful.
Several environment variables that can be set before running `configure` will
-affect compilation:
+affect compilation. Significant ones are:
|Variable|Description |
|--------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
|`BUILD_LDFLAGS`|`LDFLAGS` for the target system during cross-compiling.|
|`BUILD_LIBS`|`LIBS` for the target system during cross-compiling.|
+Additional environment variables affecting the build are listed at the
+end of the `configure` help text, which can be obtained by running the
+command:
+
+ $ ./configure --help
+
On platforms where neither the C11 Atomic operations library nor custom ISC
atomic operations are available, updating the statistics counters is not
locked due to performance reasons and therefore the counters might be
#### <a name="macos"> macOS
Building on macOS assumes that the "Command Tools for Xcode" is installed.
-This can be downloaded from [https://developer.apple.com/download/more/](https://developer.apple.com/download/more/)
-or if you have Xcode already installed you can run `xcode-select --install`.
+This can be downloaded from
+[https://developer.apple.com/download/more/](https://developer.apple.com/download/more/)
+or, if you have Xcode already installed, you can run `xcode-select
+--install`. (Note that an Apple ID may be required to access the download
+page.)
### <a name="dependencies"/> Dependencies