Regularly tested platforms
-As of May 2018, BIND 9.13 is tested on the following systems:
+As of Jan 2019, BIND 9.13 is fully supported and regularly tested on the
+following systems:
- * Debian 8, 9
+ * Debian 8, 9, 10
* Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
- * Fedora 27, 28
- * Red Hat/CentOS 6, 7
- * FreeBSD 10.x, 11.x
- * OpenBSD 6.3
+ * Fedora 28, 29
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 6, 7
+ * FreeBSD 11.x
+ * OpenBSD 6.2, 6.3
The amd64, i386, armhf and arm64 CPU architectures are all fully
supported.
Best effort
-The following are platforms on which BIND is known to build and run, but
-on which it is not routinely tested. ISC makes every effort to fix bugs on
-these platforms, but may be unable to do so quickly due to lack of
-hardware, less familiarity on the part of engineering staff, and other
-constraints.
+The following are platforms on which BIND is known to build and run. ISC
+makes every effort to fix bugs on these platforms, but may be unable to do
+so quickly due to lack of hardware, less familiarity on the part of
+engineering staff, and other constraints. With the exception of Windows
+Server 2012 R2, none of these are tested regularly by ISC.
- * Windows 10 / x64
* Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 / x64
+ * Windows 10 / x64
* macOS 10.12+
- * Solaris 10
- * FreeBSD 12+
- * OpenBSD 6.2
+ * Solaris 11
+ * FreeBSD 10.x, 12.0+
+ * OpenBSD 6.4+
* NetBSD
- * Older or less popular Linux distributions still supported by their
- vendors, such as:
+ * Other Linux distributions still supported by their vendors, such as:
+ Ubuntu 14.04, 18.10+
+ Gentoo
- + ArchLinux
+ + Arch Linux
+ Alpine Linux
- * OpenWRT/LEDE 17.0
+ * OpenWRT/LEDE 17.01+
* Other CPU architectures (mips, mipsel, sparc, ...)
Unsupported platforms
-These are platforms on which BIND is known not to build or run:
+These are platforms on which BIND 9.13 is known not to build or run:
* Platforms without at least OpenSSL 1.0.2
* Windows 10 / x86
* Windows Server 2012 and older
+ * Solaris 10 and older
* Platforms that don't support IPv6 Advanced Socket API (RFC 3542)
* Platforms that don't support atomic operations (via compiler or
library)
* The lowest worthwhile CPU implementation is Armv7-A, therefore the
recommended build option is -march=armv7-a.
- * FPU should be set at VFPv3-D16 as they represent the miminum
+ * FPU should be set at VFPv3-D16 as they represent the minimum
specification of the processors to support here, therefore the
recommended build option is -mfpu=vfpv3-d16.
### Regularly tested platforms
-As of May 2018, BIND 9.13 is tested on the following systems:
+As of Jan 2019, BIND 9.13 is fully supported and regularly tested on the
+following systems:
-* Debian 8, 9
+* Debian 8, 9, 10
* Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
-* Fedora 27, 28
-* Red Hat/CentOS 6, 7
-* FreeBSD 10.x, 11.x
-* OpenBSD 6.3
+* Fedora 28, 29
+* Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 6, 7
+* FreeBSD 11.x
+* OpenBSD 6.2, 6.3
The amd64, i386, armhf and arm64 CPU architectures are all fully supported.
### Best effort
-The following are platforms on which BIND is known to build and run,
-but on which it is not routinely tested. ISC makes every effort to fix bugs
-on these platforms, but may be unable to do so quickly due to lack of
-hardware, less familiarity on the part of engineering staff, and other
-constraints.
+The following are platforms on which BIND is known to build and run.
+ISC makes every effort to fix bugs on these platforms, but may be unable to
+do so quickly due to lack of hardware, less familiarity on the part of
+engineering staff, and other constraints. With the exception of Windows
+Server 2012 R2, none of these are tested regularly by ISC.
-* Windows 10 / x64
* Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 / x64
+* Windows 10 / x64
* macOS 10.12+
-* Solaris 10
-* FreeBSD 12+
-* OpenBSD 6.2
+* Solaris 11
+* FreeBSD 10.x, 12.0+
+* OpenBSD 6.4+
* NetBSD
-* Older or less popular Linux distributions still supported by their vendors, such as:
+* Other Linux distributions still supported by their vendors, such as:
* Ubuntu 14.04, 18.10+
* Gentoo
- * ArchLinux
+ * Arch Linux
* Alpine Linux
-* OpenWRT/LEDE 17.0
+* OpenWRT/LEDE 17.01+
* Other CPU architectures (mips, mipsel, sparc, ...)
## Unsupported platforms
-These are platforms on which BIND is known *not* to build or run:
+These are platforms on which BIND 9.13 is known *not* to build or run:
* Platforms without at least OpenSSL 1.0.2
* Windows 10 / x86
* Windows Server 2012 and older
+* Solaris 10 and older
* Platforms that don't support IPv6 Advanced Socket API (RFC 3542)
* Platforms that don't support atomic operations (via compiler or library)
* Linux without NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library)
* The lowest worthwhile CPU implementation is Armv7-A, therefore the recommended
build option is `-march=armv7-a`.
-* FPU should be set at VFPv3-D16 as they represent the miminum specification of
+* FPU should be set at VFPv3-D16 as they represent the minimum specification of
the processors to support here, therefore the recommended build option is
`-mfpu=vfpv3-d16`.