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+Notes for BIND 9.18.34
+----------------------
+
+New Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Print the expiration time of the stale records.
+
+ Print the expiration time of the stale RRsets in the cache dump.
+
+Removed Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Remove `--with-tuning=small/large` configuration option.
+
+ The configuration option `--with-tuning` has been removed as it is no
+ longer required or desired.
+
+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Fix :iscman:`rndc flushname` for longer name server names.
+
+ :option:`rndc flushname` did not work for name server names longer
+ than 16 bytes. This has been fixed. :gl:`#3885`
+
+- Recently expired records could be returned with timestamp in future.
+
+ Under rare circumstances, the RRSet that expired at the time of the
+ query could be returned with TTL far in the future. This has been
+ fixed.
+
+ As a side-effect, the expiration time of expired RRSets are no longer
+ printed out in the cache dump. :gl:`#5094`
+
+- Yaml string not terminated in negative response in delv.
+
+ :gl:`#5098`
+
+- Apply the memory limit only to ADB database items.
+
+ The resolver under heavy-load could exhaust the memory available for
+ storing the information in the Address Database (ADB) effectively
+ evicting already stored information in the ADB. The memory used to
+ retrieve and provide information from the ADB is now not a subject of
+ the same memory limits that are applied for storing the information in
+ the Address Database. :gl:`#5127`
+
+- Avoid unnecessary locking in the zone/cache database.
+
+ Prevent lock contention among many worker threads referring to the
+ same database node at the same time. This improves zone and cache
+ database performance for the heavily contended database nodes.
+ :gl:`#5130`
+
+- Improve the resolver performance under attack.
+
+ A remote client can force the DNS resolver component to consume the
+ memory faster than cleaning up the resources for the canceled resolver
+ fetches due to `recursive-clients` limit. If the such traffic pattern
+ is sustained for a long period of time, the DNS server might
+ eventually run out of the available memory. This has been fixed.
+
+ It should be noted that when under such heavy attack for a BIND 9
+ version both with and without the fix, no outgoing DNS queries will be
+ successful as the generated traffic pattern will consume all the
+ available slots for the recursive clients.
+
+