This is the 1.2.0 version release of BIND 10. Corresponding with this release, ISC has concluded its development work on the BIND 10 code base and it will be maintained and hosted by an outside group. ISC will continue to develop BIND 9 and its DHCP software. BIND 10 provides an authoritative DNS server (with in-memory and SQLite3 backends), DNSSEC support, dynamic DNS, zone transfers. Supplementary components are included for statistics collection and reporting and remote configuration and control are included, as is an experimental recursive nameserver with support for forwarding. The continuation of this project is known as Bundy and hosted at http://bundy-dns.de/. The source will be available via a public shared Git revision control hosting service with some past contributors managing the project outside of ISC's guidance. Its ticketing system and content collaboration will not be hosted by ISC. Since the June 2013 1.1.0 release, the new DNS highlights include incoming zone transfer statistics, support for CAA and TLSA resource records, and the zone loader now supports the zone file $GENERATE directive. Note that the b10-xfrin "use_ixfr" configuration item is deprecated and a new configuration "zones/request_ixfr" may be used to replace it. Also use "database_file" under the "data_sources" module for b10-xfrin inbound transfers and use b10-loadzone -e option to create an empty zone prior to the first transfer. The suite also provides DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers, a dynamic DNS component, a DHCP performance testing program, and a C++ library for DHCP. ISC is continuing with the development of these components in a new project, Kea. The versions of these components in the BIND 10 release correspond to Kea 0.8. Since the June 2013 release, Kea has introduced many new DHCP features including support for relayed DHCPv6 traffic, the dynamic DNS updates module, a Hooks framework for customizing and extending DHCP behavior, Client FQDN Option, DHCPv4 Host Name option, Prefix Delegation (IA_PD and IAPREFIX options), Vendor Class option, support for sending back client-id, client classification at the basic level, ability to respond to directly-connected clients which do not have IP addresses, interface detection for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris 11, Rebind message support for the DHCPv6 server, an experimental PostgreSQL database backend for leases, and CSV file storage for in-memory leases. For information about the Kea project, please visit http://kea.isc.org/. If you have any questions or comments about working with the DHCP code, you may post them to the Kea DHCP Mailing List https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. For the full commit history, please see the ChangeLog and the git Log. This release doesn't introduce any code changes since last week's release candidate. The bind10-1.2.0 source may be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind10/1.2.0/bind10-1.2.0.tar.gz A PGP signature of the distribution is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind10/1.2.0/bind10-1.2.0.tar.gz.sha512.asc The signature was generated with the ISC code signing key which is available at https://www.isc.org/about/openpgp Installation details are documented in the Guide. In addition, installation suggestions for various operating systems are available via our wiki http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/InstallStartPage. (Please note that there are build regressions on Solaris platforms for the DNS code.) The ./configure options --disable-dns and --disable-dhcp may be used to provide an optional DHCP- or DNS-only build and installation. BIND 10 was a sponsored development project, and would not be possible without the generous support of the past sponsors: AFNIC, Afilias, CIRA, CNNIC, CZ.NIC, DENIC eG, Google, IIS.SE, JPRS, Nominet, .nz Registry Services, RIPE NCC, Registro.br, SIDN, and Technical Center of Internet. Support for the new DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 components is provided by Comcast. As the release engineer for the past 34 development snapshots and release versions, I'd like to thank the many contributors, sponsors, and developers for their assistance with this project. Jeremy C. Reed ISC Release Engineering