Reminder: BIND 9.11 will be EOL in March 2022

Victoria Risk <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:10:19 -0500
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Hello bind-announce,

BIND 9.11 is now in its last quarter of support. We are fixing critical =
security issues only at this point. It is time to start making plans to =
update if you are still running a 9.11 version. (The current release =
plan is published at https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896 =
<https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896>.)

BIND 9.11.0 was published in October of 2016. A *lot* has happened since =
then. Also, we have refactored some significant functions in BIND and =
9.16 has quite a few changes compared to 9.11.

One of our support engineers analyzed the differences in options between =
the versions, and wrote this KB article for people migrating: =
https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-911-to-916=
 =
<https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-911-to-91=
6> .

We also have updated the =E2=80=98BIND Significant Features Matrix=E2=80=99=
 with the major feature differences between releases. This is not as =
detailed as the KB mentioned above. https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01310 =
<https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01310>. =20

While we don=E2=80=99t have current performance tests that compare the =
latest 9.11 version to the latest 9.16 version, we did quite a bit of =
performance testing on the 9.16 branch in 2021 and we do not expect any =
loss of performance moving from 9.11 to 9.16. (see =
https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-resolver-performance-july-2021/ =
<https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-resolver-performance-july-2021/> for =
performance results for resolver operations) There may be some changes =
in memory utilization, which we have tried to minimize in the latest =
versions. (see https://kb.isc.org/docs/bind-memory-consumption-explained =
<https://kb.isc.org/docs/bind-memory-consumption-explained> for more =
details).

For those using the ISC BIND packages: =20

Because we are still patching 9.11, and we haven=E2=80=99t yet issued a =
new development branch, we are putting 9.18.0 into the bind-dev =
repositories, for now.

In April, we plan to do a version rollover:
- bind-esv will go from 9.11 to 9.16
- bind will go from 9.16 to 9.18
- bind-dev will go from 9.18.1 to 9.19.0=20

BIND 9.19.0 will be the new development branch.

Regards,

Vicky Risk=

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<html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; =
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">Hello=
 bind-announce,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">BIND =
9.11 is now in its last quarter of support. We are fixing critical =
security issues only at this point. It is time to start making plans to =
update if you are still running a 9.11 version. (The current release =
plan is published at&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896" =
class=3D"">https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896</a>.)</div><div class=3D""><br=
 class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">BIND 9.11.0 was published in October =
of 2016. A *lot* has happened since then. Also, we have refactored some =
significant functions in BIND and 9.16 has quite a few changes compared =
to 9.11.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">One =
of our support engineers analyzed the differences in options between the =
versions, and wrote this KB article for people migrating:&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-91=
1-to-916" =
class=3D"">https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from=
-911-to-916</a>&nbsp;.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">We also have updated the =E2=80=98BIND Significant Features =
Matrix=E2=80=99 with the major feature differences between releases. =
This is not as detailed as the KB mentioned above.&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01310" =
class=3D"">https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01310</a>. &nbsp;</div><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">While we don=E2=80=99t =
have current performance tests that compare the latest 9.11 version to =
the latest 9.16 version, we did quite a bit of performance testing on =
the 9.16 branch in 2021 and we do not expect any loss of performance =
moving from 9.11 to 9.16. (see&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-resolver-performance-july-2021/" =
class=3D"">https://www.isc.org/blogs/bind-resolver-performance-july-2021/<=
/a>&nbsp;for performance results for resolver operations) There may be =
some changes in memory utilization, which we have tried to minimize in =
the latest versions. (see&nbsp;<a =
href=3D"https://kb.isc.org/docs/bind-memory-consumption-explained" =
class=3D"">https://kb.isc.org/docs/bind-memory-consumption-explained</a>&n=
bsp;for more details).</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">For those using the ISC BIND packages: &nbsp;</div><div =
class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Because we are still =
patching 9.11, and we haven=E2=80=99t yet issued a new development =
branch, we are putting 9.18.0 into the bind-dev repositories, for =
now.</div><div class=3D""><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">In April, we plan to do a version rollover:</div><div =
class=3D"">- bind-esv will go from 9.11 to 9.16</div><div class=3D"">- =
bind will go from 9.16 to 9.18</div><div class=3D"">- bind-dev will go =
from 9.18.1 to 9.19.0&nbsp;</div></div><div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">BIND 9.19.0 will be the new development =
branch.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Regards,</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">Vicky Risk</div></body></html>=

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