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1.. 2 Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") 3 4 This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public 5 License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this 6 file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. 7 8 See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional 9 information regarding copyright ownership. 10 11Release Notes 12============= 13 14.. contents:: 15 16Introduction 17------------ 18 19BIND 9.16 is a stable branch of BIND. This document summarizes 20significant changes since the last production release on that branch. 21Please see the CHANGES file for a more detailed list of changes and bug 22fixes. 23 24Note on Version Numbering 25------------------------- 26 27As of BIND 9.13/9.14, BIND has adopted the "odd-unstable/even-stable" 28release numbering convention. BIND 9.16 contains new features that were 29added during the BIND 9.15 development process. Henceforth, the 9.16 30branch will be limited to bug fixes, and new feature development will 31proceed in the unstable 9.17 branch. 32 33Supported Platforms 34------------------- 35 36To build on Unix-like systems, BIND requires support for POSIX.1c 37threads (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995), the Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 38(:rfc:`3542`), and standard atomic operations provided by the C 39compiler. 40 41The libuv asynchronous I/O library and the OpenSSL cryptography library 42must be available for the target platform. A PKCS#11 provider can be 43used instead of OpenSSL for Public Key cryptography (i.e., DNSSEC 44signing and validation), but OpenSSL is still required for general 45cryptography operations such as hashing and random number generation. 46 47More information can be found in the ``PLATFORMS.md`` file that is 48included in the source distribution of BIND 9. If your compiler and 49system libraries provide the above features, BIND 9 should compile and 50run. If that is not the case, the BIND development team will generally 51accept patches that add support for systems that are still supported by 52their respective vendors. 53 54Download 55-------- 56 57The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at 58https://www.isc.org/download/. There you will find additional 59information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions 60for Microsoft Windows operating systems. 61 62.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.12.rst 63.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.11.rst 64.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.10.rst 65.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.9.rst 66.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.8.rst 67.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.7.rst 68.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.6.rst 69.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.5.rst 70.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.4.rst 71.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.3.rst 72.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.2.rst 73.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.1.rst 74.. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.0.rst 75 76.. _relnotes_license: 77 78License 79------- 80 81BIND 9 is open source software licensed under the terms of the Mozilla 82Public License, version 2.0 (see the ``LICENSE`` file for the full 83text). 84 85The license requires that if you make changes to BIND and distribute 86them outside your organization, those changes must be published under 87the same license. It does not require that you publish or disclose 88anything other than the changes you have made to our software. This 89requirement does not affect anyone who is using BIND, with or without 90modifications, without redistributing it, nor anyone redistributing BIND 91without changes. 92 93Those wishing to discuss license compliance may contact ISC at 94https://www.isc.org/contact/. 95 96End of Life 97----------- 98 99The end-of-life date for BIND 9.16 has not yet been determined. At some 100point in the future, BIND 9.16 will be designated as an Extended Support 101Version (ESV). Until then, the current ESV is BIND 9.11, which will be 102supported until at least December 2021. See 103https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896 for details of ISC's software support 104policy. 105 106Thank You 107--------- 108 109Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. 110