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Notes for BIND 9.17.3
---------------------

New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- New ``rndc`` command ``rndc dnssec -status`` shows the current DNSSEC
  policy and keys in use, the key states, and rollover status.
  [GL #1612]

- Added support in the network manager for initiating outgoing TCP
  connections. [GL #1958]

Feature Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Disable and disallow static linking of BIND 9 binaries and libraries
  as BIND 9 modules require ``dlopen()`` support and static linking also
  prevents using security features like read-only relocations (RELRO) or
  address space layout randomization (ASLR) which are important for
  programs that interact with the network and process arbitrary user
  input. [GL #1933]

- As part of an ongoing effort to use RFC 8499 terminology,
  ``primaries`` can now be used as a synonym for ``masters`` in
  ``named.conf``. Similarly, ``notify primary-only`` can now be used as
  a synonym for ``notify master-only``. The output of ``rndc
  zonestatus`` now uses ``primary`` and ``secondary`` terminology.
  [GL #1948]

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~

- A race condition could occur if a TCP socket connection was closed
  while ``named`` was waiting for a recursive response. The attempt to
  send a response over the closing connection triggered an assertion
  failure in the function ``isc__nm_tcpdns_send()``. [GL #1937]

- A race condition could occur when ``named`` attempted to use a UDP
  interface that was shutting down. This triggered an assertion failure
  in ``uv__udp_finish_close()``. [GL #1938]

- Fix assertion failure when server was under load and root zone had not
  yet been loaded. [GL #1862]

- ``named`` could crash when cleaning dead nodes in ``lib/dns/rbtdb.c``
  that were being reused. [GL #1968]

- ``named`` crashed on shutdown when a new ``rndc`` connection was
  received during shutdown. This has been fixed. [GL #1747]

- The DS RRset returned by ``dns_keynode_dsset()`` was used in a
  non-thread-safe manner. This could result in an INSIST being
  triggered. [GL #1926]

- The ``primary`` and ``secondary`` keywords, when used as parameters
  for ``check-names``, were not processed correctly and were being
  ignored. [GL #1949]

- ``rndc dnstap -roll <value>`` did not limit the number of saved files
  to ``<value>``. [GL !3728]

- The validator could fail to accept a properly signed RRset if an
  unsupported algorithm appeared earlier in the DNSKEY RRset than a
  supported algorithm. It could also stop if it detected a malformed
  public key. [GL #1689]

- The ``blackhole`` ACL was inadvertently disabled for client queries.
  Blocked IP addresses were not used for upstream queries but queries
  from those addresses could still be answered. [GL #1936]
