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  <section xml:id="relnotes_intro"><info><title>Introduction</title></info>
    <para>
      This document summarizes changes since BIND 9.9.9:
    </para>
    <para>
      BIND 9.9.9-P2 addresses the security issue described in
      CVE-2016-2775.
    </para>
    <para>
      BIND 9.9.9-P1 addresses Windows installation issues and a race
      condition in the rbt/rbtdb implementation resulting in named
      exiting due to assertion failures being detected.
    </para>

  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_download"><info><title>Download</title></info>
    <para>
      The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found at
      <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.isc.org/downloads/">http://www.isc.org/downloads/</link>.
      There you will find additional information about each release,
      source code, and pre-compiled versions for Microsoft Windows
      operating systems.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_security"><info><title>Security Fixes</title></info>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  getrrsetbyname with a non absolute name could trigger an
	  infinite recursion bug in lwresd and named with lwres
	  configured if when combined with a search list entry the
	  resulting name is too long.  This flaw is disclosed in
	  CVE-2016-2775. [RT #42694]
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_features"><info><title>New Features</title></info>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  None.
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_changes"><info><title>Feature Changes</title></info>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  None.
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_port"><info><title>Porting Changes</title></info>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  None.
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_bugs"><info><title>Bug Fixes</title></info>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  Windows installs were failing due to triggering UAC without
	  the installation binary being signed.
	</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  A race condition in rbt/rbtdb was leading to INSISTs being
	  triggered.
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="end_of_life"><info><title>End of Life</title></info>
    <para>
      BIND 9.9 (Extended Support Version) will be supported until
      December, 2017.
      <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/">https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/</link>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section xml:id="relnotes_thanks"><info><title>Thank You</title></info>
    <para>
      Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible.
      If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in continuing to
      make quality open source software, please visit our donations page at
      <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.isc.org/donate/">http://www.isc.org/donate/</link>.
    </para>
  </section>
</section>
