9.1.12

June 25^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.12 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Improvements

• The performance of filtering for devices was improved

Appliances

• BIND on the appliances has been patched to address the issues in the following vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2019-6471
• Multiple vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478 & CVE-2019-11479, were found in the Linux kernel that is used on the Men & Mice appliances.
  The software on the appliances has been updated to handle the vulnerabilities. 

9.1.11

April 24^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.11 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a bug fix in a 3rd party software on the Men & Mice appliances. 

Appliance

• BIND on the appliances has been patched to address the issues in the following vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2018-5743

Improvements

• The TTL of the SOA record is now used as the default TTL when creating DNS records on NS1

9.1.10

February 20^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.10 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a bug fix in a 3rd party software on the Men & Mice appliances. 

Appliance

• BIND on the appliances has been patched to address the issues in the following vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2018-5744

  • CVE-2018-5745

  • CVE-2019-6465

Improvements

• The installer for the Web Application was improved such that it better handles an existing installation of the previous Web Interface

9.1.9

January 18th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.9 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a single improvement. 

Improvements

• Akamai has deprecated support for TLS 1.0 for Fast DNS and currently requires TLS 1.2 to be used. Consequently, the Men & Mice Suite now uses TLS 1.2 when communicating with Akamai Fast DNS securely.

9.1.8

December 17th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where a deadlock could occur when calling the AddRange API command
• An issue was fixed on the Men & Mice appliances which prevented the web server to start up correctly
• An issue was fixed where the old Men & Mice Web interface would not work correctly on IE 11
• An issue was fixed where running specific reports in the new web application could have unexpected performance impact on Men & Mice Central
• An issue was fixed where subnet discovery would always update the default address space and not the expected address space
• An issue was fixed where disabled DHCP scoped where not being shown as disabled
• An issue was fixed where converting a range to a container would not be persisted correctly to the database
• An issue was fixed for the DNS Remote installer where the parsing of the configuration would fail in case of server statements containing a TSIG key 
• An issue was fixed for the Men & Mice Web services installer where it would not correctly handle specific properties of the init scripts on RHEL 6.8

Improvements

• Thread safety of exceptions was improved
• Logging from Men & Mice Central was improved
• Various performance enhancements

9.1.7

November 7th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.7 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where not all active leases on an ISC DHCP server would be parsed correctly
• An issue was fixed where in certain circumstances during a DHCP synchronization, a deadlock could occur
• An issue was fixed where in certain cases DHCP reservations would not get purged when expected.
• An issue was fixed where a user could select an option to sign a DNS zone on BIND while the option should have only been available for Windows DNS servers
• An issue was fixed where users wrongly needed access to delete a range to delete IP addresses within the range
• An issue was fixed in the older web interface which prevented users to view subnets in a hierarchical view

Improvements

• Documentation was updated for the REST API. It was wrongly indicated for Range PropertyDefinition that "ref" would be a required field

9.1.6

October 23rd, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue where Men & Mice Central would crash under very specific circumstances, was fixed
• An issue where the DHCP Controller would get an error about The RPC server being unavailable, was fixed
• An issue, where Men & Mice Central would crash in case of communicating with cloud services, was fixed
• An issue, when running an IP reconciliation report in the web application, was fixed

Improvements

• The new trust anchor for the root zone is now added if any trust anchors are defined on the Caching appliance
• Various other improvements
  
  

9.1.5

September 28th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a single fix for the Men & Mice Appliances

Bug fixes

• A performance issue was fixed on the Men & Mice Caching appliance
  
  

9.1.4

September 20th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a 3rd party issue on the Men & Mice Caching Appliances. 

Issues

• The DNS server on the Caching Appliance was upgraded due to an issue in Unbound regarding ability to manage the root keys in the previous version. A KSK key rollover is scheduled for the root zone on the 11th of October 2018 and before, unbound must be able to manage the trust anchors automatically.
  
  All Caching appliance users that are running versions 9.1 are encouraged to upgrade to version 9.1.4. 
  
  

9.1.3

September 4th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where in some cases for xDNS zones, an additional record would be created
• An issue was fixed with the Web application installer where it would in some cases not uninstall properly
• An issue was fixed with the Web application where the filtering sidebar collapsed state was not persisted
• An issue was fixed with authentication on the Web application where in the case of a failed login, an external authentication dialog would be shown. 
• An issue was fixed in the Web interface where in some cases DNS records would not be shown in the IP address properties
• An issue was fixed where changing zone options for forward zones on window server 2016 would always return an error
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to create A records that had the same name as the DNS zone for AD integrated zones
• An issue was fixed on the Men & Mice appliances regarding SNMP trap behavior

Improvements

• BIND on the DNS & DHCP appliances was upgraded to 9.11.4-P1

9.1.2

August 17th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.2 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed in the new Web application which prevented users with SQL Server to use the reporting feature
• An issue was fixed in the new Web application where collapsing the filtering sidebar would clear the active filter
• An issue was fixed for the GetDNSRecords SOAP command where it was not possible to have a nillable targetRef
• An issue was fixed in the new Web application where DHCP leases would show up as Free

Improvements

• It is now possible to create and modify multiline TXT records in the web application

9.1.1

July 22nd, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1.1 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• A performance issue was fixed in the web application where it could take longer than expected to open up a network. 

9.1.0

July 11^th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. 

This version will be supported for 2 years or until July 11th, 2020. 

Please note that all upcoming major releases are supported for 2 years. 

New Features and Improvements

A New Web Application

A new web application has been released for the Men & Mice Suite. This first version of the new web application has basic DNS and DHCP management functionality. In an upcoming version 9.2 of the Men & Mice Suite the goal is to expand on the DNS and DHCP functionality and add new features which are not present in the current web interface or the Windows client (The Men & Mice Management Console).

For details on the functionality in the Web Application, see Men and Mice Web Application Guide. 

DNSTAP support for BIND and Unbound on Men & Mice Appliances

DNSTAP is a new open technology, reading DNS server state events directly from the core of the DNS server, and making sure that performance loss is minimal while instrumentation is enabled. DNSTAP allows administrators to easily get more valuable information on the DNS queries the server receives and responses sent to the clients.

NTP server on Men & Mice Appliances

A user can now (currently manual configuration per request) use the Men & Mice appliances as an Network Time Server (NTP) 

Improvements

• AD integrated zones can now be a part of an xDNS group
• It is now possible to edit DHCP option 43 as both ASCII and HEX
• Improved performance when synchronizing DNS zones in Azure DNS and AWS Route 53
• xDNS Zone Redundancy now supports read only instances of zones
• BIND running on the DNS & DHCP Appliance now runs version 9.11

Bug Fixes

• An issue was fixed where after migrating a DNS zone, the zone could in some cases be left in an inconsistent state
• An issue was fixed where the DHCP synchronization could stop if Men & Mice Central would be unable to resolve the DNS name for a DHCP server at startup
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to use the SOAP command mmPlaceInFolder correctly for a DHCP scope folder
• An issue was fixed where promoting a DNS zone from slave to master would in some cases copy data from the wrong master server
• An issue was fixed where the GetDNSServers SOAP command would return elements in the wrong order
• An issue was fixed where an AD forest name would not be updated correctly in Men & Mice Central
• An issue was fixed where a potential deadlock could occurr when running external scripts
• An issue was fixed where data for MX records in AWS was not being handled correctly
• An issue was fixed where a user was unable to migrate a DNS zone into a cloud DNS server in case there was a shorthand notation for the Time to Live (TTL)
• An issue was fixed where a user logging in repeatedly could block access for other users
• An issue was fixed where the update agent would not function correctly during an upgrade

End-of-Life Announcements

• Version 8.2 of the Men & Mice Suite is no longer supported.