BIND 9.16

Summary

BIND 9 would be updated to upcoming stable version BIND 9.16.

Owner

Name: Petr Menšík
Email: pemensik@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 34
Last updated: 2021-01-14
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

ISC BIND 9 stayed longer time on 9.11 Extended Support Version, because dhcp and freeipa depended on it. DHCP package no longer requires bind-export-libs, which new BIND 9.16 does not support. FreeIPA part bind-dyndb-ldap were also modified to support new version.

BIND 9.16 includes more easy way to provide DNSSEC (https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/DNSSEC-Key-and-Signing-Policy-(KASP).

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Version under most active development is packaged again. Introduces [DNSSEC Key and Signing Policy|https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/DNSSEC-Key-and-Signing-Policy-(KASP)] without external tools like opendnssec. Also client tools from *bind-utils* now support yaml export format (dig, mdig, delv).

Scope

Proposal owners:

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with Objectives:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

lwresd server and lwres nss client plugin is no longer provided. bind-sdb is also no longer provided as separate package. Instead several bind-dlz-* plugins are offered as runtime loadable plugins.

How To Test

System administrators would receive the most recent stable version of BIND, with improved performance and features.

User Experience

Dependencies

bind-dyndb-ldap

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
Blocks product? product

Documentation