+5610. [bug] Prevent a crash which could happen when a lookup
+ triggered by "stale-answer-client-timeout" was attempted
+ right after recursion for a client query finished.
+ [GL #2594]
+
5609. [func] GSSAPI support no longer uses the ISC SPNEGO
implementation. [GL #2607]
which could cause a large zone transfer to be sent back to the client. The
default setting for ``tcp-initial-timeout`` was 30 seconds, which meant that
any TCP connection taking more than 30 seconds was abruptly terminated. This
- has been fixed [GL #2573].
+ has been fixed. [GL #2573]
+
+- When ``stale-answer-client-timeout`` was set to a positive value and
+ recursion for a client query completed when ``named`` was about to look for
+ a stale answer, an assertion could fail in ``query_respond()``, resulting in
+ a crash. This has been fixed. [GL #2594]