9.2.10

June 24th, 2020

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.10 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements.

Appliances

• BIND on the Men&Mice DDI appliance was upgraded due to the CVE-2020-8619 vulnerability
• Unbound on the Men&Mice Caching appliance was upgraded due to the CVE-2020-12662 and CVE-2020-12663 vulnerabilities.

9.2.9

May 19th, 2020

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.9 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing an upgrade for BIND.

Appliances

• BIND on the Men&Mice appliances was upgraded due to CVE-2020-8616 and CVE-2020-8617 vulnerabilities

9.2.8

April 17^th, 2020

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Improvements

• Dynamic update timeout is now configurable
• It is now possible to disable automatic updates of PTR records

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where Men&Mice Central could not communicate as expected with newer Cisco IOS versions 
• An issue was fixed where the API command SetProperties for a DHCP reservation did not allow for an empty "Addresses" property
• An issue was fixed where the API command GetAvailableAddressBlocks for IPv6 was failing due to a wrong default mask being used. 
• An issue was fixed in the Import IPAM task in the Web Application where an error about "Unknow element: iscontainer" was displayed when importing IP ranges
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to edit Akamai cloud account properties
• An issue was fixed where creating a DHCP scope could result in an error after selecting AD site. 

9.2.7

January 24^th, 2020

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.7 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed in the web application where DNS zones hosted on the Akamai Fast DNS cloud provider were not properly handled.
• An issue was fixed where Men&Mice Central could crash due to mishandling of DNSSEC related records. 
• An issue was fixed which prevented a proxy to be properly used for AWS cloud services.
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where a save comment would not be prompted for when adding or editing a reservation.
  
  

9.2.6

December 17^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Appliances

• ISC DHCP on the DDI appliance to 4.4.1
• BIND on the Men&Mice appliances was upgraded due to the CVE-2019-6477 vulnerability

Improvements / New features

• DNS hosts support was added to the import task in the Web Application

• The cloud support for NS1 now supports rate limiting

• Add support for HMAC-SHA256/512 in rndc
• It is now possible to specify if empty resource groups are hidden or not under DNS views
• The functionality when promoting a slave zone to a master zone has been improved
• The functionality when migrating a DNS zone between DNS servers has been improved.
• Record pagination has been implemented for syncing with the NS1 cloud service which improves performance and reliability
• Various improvements were done for the High Availability feature of the Men&Mice Suite

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where the Management Console would not show inherited DHCP options in the case of both failover DHCP scopes being selected.
• An issue was fixed where the GetIPAMRecords API command for an array of IPs would not return DHCP related data.
• An issue was fixed where the Generic DNS controller did not properly manage DNSServerSubtype.
• An issue was fixed in the web application where usage of the quickfilter would reset the configuration of visible columns in the list. 
• An error was fixed where Men & Mice Central could crash in a specific case where user was sorting by DNS views in the Web Application
• An issue was fixed where the GetDNSZoneOptions API command did not return the masters IP address list for Forward DNS zones for Windows DNS servers. 
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to open DHCP scopes which resulted in a "DNS Server not found" error message
• An issue was fixed where one user could delete a DNS record, while another user edited the same record without a clear error message. 
• An issue was fixed in the web application where the IP address report was not working as expected
• An issue was fixed where an extra zero was being shown for the "Lease expires" column in the UI's
• An issue was fixed where leases in the state Free or Backup on the ISC DHCP server were being displayed as Leased or inactive. 
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to re-sync DNS zones in an xDNS group when they were reported out of sync.
• An error was fixed where disabled zones would not be handled properly after an upgrade. 
• An issue was fixed where reloading a DNS zone in a view using RNDC could fail due to mishandled casings of the view name. 
• An issue was fixed in the web application where the default view name would not be rendered correctly
• An issue was fixed where the AD Site inheritance was missingin IPAM range view in the management console. 

9.2.5

October 25^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• Akamai's Fast DNS stability and performance was improved.
• An issue was fixed where Men&Mice Central could crash when processing errors when creating a DNS zone.
• An issue was fixed where an account limit on NS1 accounts could prevent records to be shown.
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where IE11 was not working as expected.
• An issue was fixed with the proxy configuration for AWS.
• An issue was fixed where Men&Mice Central would crash in specific cases where the SQLite database was locked.
• An issue was fixed where deleting a DNS zone on Dyn would result in an error.
• An issue was fixed where the claimed flag was being ignored.
• An issue was fixed where SNMP monitoring for BIND on Men&Mice Appliances was not working as expected.
• An issue was fixed where the quick command in the Web Application was not properly handling IPv6 addresses.
• An issue was fixed where leases would not be shown in the Management Console in the case of synchronization fail for the scope.
• An issue was fixed where replicating a DHCP failover scope could result in the DHCP scope not being synchronized properly.
• An issus was fixed where disabled DNS zones were erroneously being removed from the zone list when editing the DNS server name.
• An issue was fixed for the GetDNSZoneOptions API command where additional data was wrongly being included.
• An issue was fixed for the session management of Dyn.
• An issue was fixed where AWS group policy formatting could prevent cloud accounts from being added.

Improvements

• It is no longer needed to manually maintain a list of zones for Akamai's Fast DNS. Akamai now offers a better API for Fast DNS which allows for better integration with the service. 
• Performance for filtering was improved.
• Documentation for custom properties in the API was wrong and has been updated.
• Improvements were done on synchronizing the DHCP scope contents when opening a DHCP scope.

9.2.4

June 19^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where the installer for the Web Application wrongly removed preferences.cfg during an upgrade.
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to create PTR records with multiple labels in the Web Application.
• An issue was fixed where adding a new zone to the Akamai list of zones in cloud services the new zone would not get synchronized properly.
• An issue was fixed where non MAC address clientIdentifiers would be formatted as MAC addresses 

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. 

9.2.3

June 11^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where  changing a DHCP server name could result in an unexpected error
• An issue was fixed where newly created ranges did not have usage calculated for previous claimed addresses
• An issue was fixed where an error "IP Range not found" would be displayed when creating reservations inside of ISC DHCP pools
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to delete NAPTR records on the BIND DNS server
• An issue was fixed where error handling on zone updates was not handled properly
• An issue was fixed where cloud discovery would add duplicate accounts after an upgrade
• An issue was fixed where zones promoted from a slave to master was not being updated accordingly

Improvements

• High availability functionality was improved
• The importing feature for IP address ranges in the Web Application was improved
• Ability to sort by "Next run" and "Scheduled" for reports in the Web Application was added. 
• Information on DHCP pools is now shown in the inspector of the Web Application
• A new report template has been added to the Web Application which allows to create a report on IP addresses and the respective custom fields

New features

• Support for LDAP authentication in the Men & Mice Suite has been added
• Support for SQL Server when Men & Mice Central is running on Linux has been added

9.2.2

April 24^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.2 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

9.2.1

March 20^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2.1 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 when adding a slave copy of a zone in the Management Console in an environment with a large number of DNS servers, was fixed
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where new DNS records always had a TTL of 1D
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where it would crash when applying certain quickfilters in DHCP scopes
• An issue where the DHCP Server Controller was unable to parse certain ISC DHCP configurations, was fixed

9.2.0

March 5^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 9.2 of the Men & Mice Suite. 

This version will be supported for 2 years or until March 5th, 2021. 

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

New Features and Improvements

Web Application

New features have been added to the new Men & Mice Web Application, first released with v.9.1.

• Workflow module, see below
• Reporting module, see below
• It is now possible to import IPAM data
• The history for all objects is now available as a task
• Reporting management has been improved
• The usability of the Quick Command feature has been improved
• The usability of the filtering sidebar has been improved and active filters are better indicated
• Typeahead is now available in various places
• Save comments are now required when saving data in the web application
• When creating a network, the selected network is now populated in the wizard
• Thread safety of exceptions was improved
• Various improvements regarding user experience
• Various improvements regarding look and feel
• It is now better indicated when a filter is active in the Web Application
• It is now more easy to manage date and time in various places
• The quick command now better indicates the instance of a zone
• Better management of multiline TXT records
• DHCP pools are now being indicated more clearly.
• Quickfilter usability was improved
• It is now possible to properly copy data from the grid
• Vendor information is now shown for IP addresses in the inspector
• Hierarchical custom properties are now supported
• The "create network" wizard's usability was improved
• Support was added to create DHCP scopes on ISC DHCP, Kea and Cisco DHCP servers
• User experience for the network tree view was improved
• The MAC address field in the Create reservation window is now populated with the last known MAC address

New Workflow module

The workflow modules allows you to handle the management of DNS changes as requests which can be approved or rejected. The requests can also be scheduled. For more information, see Workflow Management.

New Reporting module

A new reporting module is now being introduced. For further information, see Reports Management.

Various features have been added as well as general enhancements. 

• It is now possible to scavenge reports
• It is now possible to schedule reports to be generated
• It is now possible to save reporting definitions
• List of saved reports are shown in the inspector for reporting

Multiple account support for Cloud services

It is possible to connect the Men & Mice Suite to multiple AWS accounts using single credentials. See Configuring and AWS multi-account for more information

Azure Marketplace

• The Men & Mice Suite is now available in the Azure Marketplace. For more information, see Men and Mice in Azure Marketplace.

Improvements

• Optimisations were done regarding time outs when communicating with cloud services
• Handling of RPC connections was improved

• Various performance enhancements

• The TTL of the SOA record is now used as the default TTL when creating DNS records in Akamai's Fast DNS

• The new trust anchor for the root zone is now added if any trust anchors are defined on the Caching appliance
• BIND running on the DNS & DHCP Appliance now runs version 9.11.5-P4

Bug Fixes

• An issue was fixed where mmxmlint component could crash in specific circumstances
• 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 not all active leases on an ISC DHCP server would be parsed correctly
• An issue was fixed where users wrongly needed access to delete a range to delete IP addresses within the range
• An issue where Men & Mice Central would crash under very specific circumstances, was fixed
• An issue was fixed where in certain circumstances during a DHCP synchronization, a deadlock could occur
• An issue where the DHCP Controller would get an error about The RPC server being unavailable, was fixed
• A performance issue was fixed on the Men & Mice Caching appliance
• 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 not all regions in an AWS account were not being listed when creating a cloud network
• An issue, where Men & Mice Central would crash in case of communicating with cloud services, was fixed
• An issue was fixed where editing a reservation on a Cisco DHCP server could in specific circumstances crash the DNS controller
• An issue was fixed where in certain cases DHCP reservations would not get purged when expected.
• An issue was fixed where changing zone options for forward zones on window server 2016 would always return an error
• 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
• An issue was fixed for the GetDNSRecords SOAP command where it was not possible to have a nillable targetRef
• 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 where in some cases for xDNS zones, an additional record would be created
• An issue was fixed on the Men & Mice appliances regarding SNMP trap behavior
• An issue was fixed with the Web application installer where it would in some cases not uninstall properly
• An issue was fixed where disabled DHCP scoped where not being shown as disabled
• 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 where converting a range to a container would not be persisted correctly to the database
• 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 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 in the installer for the Web Application where the installation could fail in specific circumstances
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the selection would jump around when changing options in drop downs
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the sidebar filter would be cleared when the filter sidebar was collapsed
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the quickfilter for values in the AD Site column was not working as expected
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where some mandatory custom fields were not being marked properly as mandatory
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the filtering sidebar would not expand properly when certain items were selected
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the 0.0.0.0/24 subnet was being wrongly indicated as invalid
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where in some cases the last know MAC address was not being shown
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where editing a SOA record from the inspector was not being handled properly
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where checkboxes did not work as expected for multiple selections
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where revealing a record did not work as expected
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where it was not possible to have a blank CNAME target
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where an error could occur when running the IP reconciliation report
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where an unexpected error could appear during login
• An issue was fixed in the Web Interface where the page would not load properly in Internet Explorer 11
• An issue was fixed in the Web Interface where DNS records would not be shown in the IP address properties as expected
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where running the installer without the correct parameters would result in a wrong message being displayed
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where the related DNS data was not being displayed properly on Internet Explorer 11
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where leased IP addresses would wrongly show up as free
• An issue was fixed in the Web Application where creating a DHCP scope would return an error, but the DHCP scope would be created

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. 

8.3.11

July 3rd, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.11 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where SNMP for the DNS & DHCP appliances was not working as expected

8.3.10

June 25^th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.10 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

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. 

8.3.9

May 17th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.9 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

• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to delete NAPTR records on the BIND DNS server

8.3.8

February 8th, 2019

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Improvements

• Handling of RPC connections was improved
• 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

8.3.7

December 17th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.7 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where a deadlock could occur when calling the AddRange API command
• An issue was fixed where disabled DHCP scoped where not being shown as disabled

Improvements

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

8.3.6

December 3rd, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• 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, where Men & Mice Central would crash in case of communicating with cloud services, was fixed
• An issue was fixed where the ArrayOfString XML element was not handled properly in certain conditions
• An issue was fixed where in certain cases DHCP reservations would not get purged when expected.
• An issue where Men & Mice Central would crash under very specific circumstances, was fixed
• An issue was fixed where the installer for the DNS remote would fail installation for a config that contained TSIG keys
• An issue was fixed where the update agent would not function correctly during an upgrade
• An issue was fixed where a user logging in repeatedly could block access for other users
• An issue was fixed where moving an IP address within an IP address range would not be handled properly
• An issue was fixed where cached data was being purged incorrectly which could result in a failed invariant and in some cases cause increased memory usage

Improvements

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

8.3.5

September 26th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.5 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 8.3 are encouraged to upgrade to version 8.3.5

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where changing zone options for forward zones on window server 2016 would always return an error

8.3.4

August 2nd, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug

• An issue was fixed on the Men & Mice appliances regarding SNMP trap behavior
• An issue was fixed when migrating a DNS zone between servers
• An issue was fixed where the GetDNSServers SOAP command would return elements in the wrong order
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to migrate a DNS zone in to a cloud account if it has a shorthand notation for the TTL
• An issue was fixed where creating a related PTR record would not use the best matching reverse zone by default
• An issue was fixed where in a specific scenario a user could not create an SPF record in Route53

8.3.3

June 25th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug

• An issue was fixed where the server running Men & Mice Central could not resolve the hostname of a DHCP server which caused issues in the DHCP synchronization.
• An issue was fixed with folders for DHCP servers
• An issue was fixed where an upgrade failed where the database backend was a german version of the SQL server

Improvements

• DHCP option 43 is now editable as ASCII and binary

8.3.2

April 11th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.2 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various fixes and improvements. 

Bug

• Fixed an issue where properties would not get updated after changing a property for a cloud service
• Fixed an issue where DNS records could be lost when there is an error migrating a zone to a cloud provider
• Fixed an issue where adding DHCP Scopes into Men & Mice would not be logged in the audit log
• Fixed an issue where option 43 on Cisco DHCP Scopes would be represented incorrectly
• Fixed an issue where the rules for DHCP Scope name and description were not always enforced correctly
• Fixed an issue where syncing a cloud service account could fail if duplicate virtual networks exists
• Fixed an issue where the DHCP Server Controller that manages Cisco DHCP crashes frequently
• Fixed an issue where the Management Console could crash when migrating zones
• Fixed an issue where Central could crash under some extreme circumstances
• Fixed an error that could occur when reconfiguring existing cloud account
• Fixed an issue that could cause external scripts for Ranges to time-out
• Fixed an issue where the AD forest name for a DNS Server would not be updated 
• Fixed an issue where IP addresses and A records would not be associated in some cases
• Fixed an issue where the Management Console could run out of memory in some very large environments
• Fixed an issue where Central would not stop gracefully in a timely manner while adding DHCP servers into Men & Mice
• Fixed an issue where the keys directory would not be copied to the correct location when installing the DNS Server Controller on BIND servers

Improvements

• Add ability to import custom network discovery information for ranges
• Improve reliability of agent-free DHCP management
• Improve performance of adding DHCP servers into Men & Mice
• Improve performance of DHCP Synchronization time in very active environments
• Improve performance of parallel management of MS DHCP servers
• Drastically improve performance of removing DHCP servers from Men & Mice
• Improve logging during DHCP Synchronization
• Increase the maximum body size for API calls through the Men & Mice Web Services from 100KB to 30MB
• Improve performance of ping discovery and reduce its effect on the rest of the system

8.3.1

January 17^th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.3.1 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 vulnerability

  • CVE-2017-3145: 
    
    Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash.

    BIND was improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream
    recursion fetch contexts, leading in some cases to a use-after-free
    error that can trigger an assertion failure and crash in named.

8.2.8

March 9^th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where address blocks of cloud networks were not being cleaned up properly
• An issue was fixed where syncing a cloud service account could fail if a duplicate virtual network existed
• An issue was fixed where an IP address was being wrongly shown as free although it has DNS names assigned to it
• An issue was fixed where RouteR53 could crash when reading unknown records
• An issue was fixed where it was not possible to replicate some NS records when creating an xDNS group
• An issue was fixed where SPF records were not being synced correctly from Route53. 

Improvements

8.2.7

January 17^th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.7 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 vulnerability

  • CVE-2017-3145: 
    
    Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash.

    BIND was improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream
    recursion fetch contexts, leading in some cases to a use-after-free
    error that can trigger an assertion failure and crash in named.

8.2.6

December 12^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed in the zone migration wizard where it would in some cases delete the history, properties and access rights of the original zone
• An issue was fixed in the Web UI where Host Editor didn't always allow "All" even when records were the same in both zone instances
• An issue was fixed where changing an IP address in A record inside a zone, the DNS names in the respective range did not get updated
• An issue was fixed where slave zones were not visible when there were master zones with the same name but in a different view.

8.2.5

October 25^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Security related enhancements in web UI authentication
• Improvements when modifying access for IP ranges in a large and busy environment

Bug fixes

• An issue that prevented PowerDNS users from making changes to DNS zones through the generic DNS controller, was fixed
• An issue was fixed where only the built-in administrator could enable/disable scavenging for records
• An issue was fixed where the Men & Mice Web Services (MMWS) could crash under specific circumstances

8.2.4

October 9^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Support for CAA record type has been added on BIND nameservers, as well as on the Route53, NS1 and Dyn cloud DNS providers
• GetRanges SOAP API call now returns elements in same order as specified in WSDL

Bug fixes

• When an external command is configured for ranges and fails during range creation, a blank range will no longer be left over
• Connecting with Negotiation Authentication (Single Sign-on) to the REST API no longer fails if the Kerberos token is very long
• The Management Console will now reconnect automatically when logged in with Single Sign-On and network connectivity is temporarily lost
• An issue was fixed where Men & Mice would crash if using an SQL Server database configured with an unexpected/incorrect database collation
• An issue was fixed where Load Balance DHCP Failover relationships on MS DHCP Servers would not be included in the Scope Creation wizard

8.2.3

August 23^rd, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• It is now possible to reload a zone window by pressing F5

• A warning message is now displayed when modifying a zone in an xDNS group, when all zones in the group are out of sync

• TXT DNS record data that is longer than 255 characters is now automatically split into multiple lines

• Conflict resolution was improved when creating an xDNS group

• Apex A/AAAA records and _msdcs NS records are now locked in AD zones

• Columns with discovery info are now only shown when they are relevant

Bug fixes

• File->New->Cloud service is now always enabled correctly

• DHCP policies now support the FQDN criteria

• It is now possible to select a failover peer when creating a scope on an ISC server, if the server has failover configured

• The management console only shows xDNS groups that contain zones in the current address space

• The possibility to sign a zone that is in an xDNS group has been removed

• When migrating a DHCP scope, it is now possible to select if options should be migrated when the option ID and type are the same, but the name is different on the destination server

• Fixed an issue where Access inheritance was not working.

• Fixed an issue where discovery for instances in cloud networks reported instances green when they should not be.

• Fixed an issue where scope creation wizard did not show DHCP server with configured failover when the name did not match. We now look for it by ID instead of name.

• Fixed an issue where recently migrated zones could not be added to an xDNS group

• Fixed an issue where DHCP scopes were added to the default address space instead of the address space of the DHCP server

• Zone is now automatically in sync if it is the last zone in an xDNS group

• Fixed an issue where the Cloud Account Wizard for Route 53 only counted up to 100 zones

• Fixed an issue where a user was unable to do some operations on large zones (>1000 records) on AWS Route 53

• Fixed an issue where former cloud device IP's were left in state assigned

• Fixed an issue where errors while updating record sets on a zone from the Dyn DNS provider could result in partial updates and wrong errors

• Overlapping subnets from different cloud VPCs are now excluded and a health warning is displayed

• It is now possible to add an agent-free DHCP server without specifying a valid hostname or a having PTR entry
  
  

8.2.2

July 4^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.2 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a bug fix in M&M Central

Men & Mice Central

• Fixed an issue where only the built-in administrator could make changes to IP address properties or DNS records under some circumstances

8.2.1

June 29^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.2.1 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-2017-3142: 

    An attacker able to send and receive messages to an authoritative
    DNS server may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR
    requests via a carefully constructed request packet.

  • CVE-2017-3143:

    An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an
    authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG
    key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to
    manipulate BIND into accepting a dynamic update.

8.1.9

January 17^th, 2018

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.9 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 vulnerability

  • CVE-2017-3145:
    
    Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash.

    BIND was improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream
    recursion fetch contexts, leading in some cases to a use-after-free
    error that can trigger an assertion failure and crash in named.

Bug Fixes

• An issue was fixed where license keys for Men & Mice Appliances would be required to manage local zones for a local Unbound DNS server

8.1.8

December 12^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Performance enhancements were done on the SOAP command GetDHCPFailoverRelationships 
• Columns with discovery info are now only shown when they are relevant

Bug fixes

• A bug was fixed in subnet discovery where the usage data was never cleared if the IP address was last found via ping
• An issue was fixed in the zone migration wizard where it would in some cases delete the history, properties and access rights of the original zone
• An issue was fixed where the DNS Remote controller could crash when running on Gentoo
• An issue was fixed where enable scavenging and SetDNSRecordAging was not allowed for other than built-in administrator
• A bug was fixed where extraneous AXFR requests were made when a zone was opened
• An issue was fixed where columns in DHCP scope window were not color coded correctly

8.1.7

October 25^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.7 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Security related enhancements in web UI authentication

8.1.6

October 9^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Support for CAA record type has been added on BIND nameservers
• GetRanges SOAP API call now returns elements in same order as specified in WSDL

Bug fixes

• When an external command is configured for ranges and fails during range creation, a blank range will no longer be left over
• Fixed various issues with Negotiation Authentication (Single Sign-on) when connecting to REST API
• The Management Console will now reconnect automatically when logged in with Single Sign-On and network connectivity is temporarily lost

8.1.5

August 23^rd, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing various bug fixes and improvements

Improvements

• Improved support for the "dnssec-must-be-secure" statement in BIND

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where the range tree got in a bad state after a range was added. This for example caused available address blocks to not function properly.

• Leases in the BAD ADDRESS state are now handled correctly

8.1.4

June 29^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.4 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-2017-3142: 

    An attacker able to send and receive messages to an authoritative
    DNS server may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR
    requests via a carefully constructed request packet.

  • CVE-2017-3143:

    An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an
    authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG
    key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to
    manipulate BIND into accepting a dynamic update.

8.1.3

May 29^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug Fixes

• An issue was fixed where users that did not have access to edit AD site associations would not be able to edit other properties for scopes

• An issue was fixed where it was impossible for some users to re-initialise appliances

• An issue was fixed where external changes done in AD Sites and Services would not be reflected in Men & Mice Suite
• An issue was fixed where the database could get corrupted and therefore Men & Mice Central not able to start
• An issue was fixed where DHCP server policies could be edited by read-only users. 

8.1.2

April 12^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.2 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-2017-3137: A response packet can cause a resolver to terminate when processing an answer containing a CNAME or DNAME.

  • CVE-2017-3136: An error handling synthesized records could cause
    an assertion failure when using DNS64 with "break-dnssec yes;"

  • CVE-2017-3138: named exits with a REQUIRE assertion failure if it
    receives a null command string on its control channel

8.1.1

March 29^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 8.1.1 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Improvements and Changes

• Error messages for exceptions have been improved

• High-availability configurations should now be more resilient to temporary loss of connection to database server

• Improved error checking for REST API

• We now qualify data fields in SRV, NS, MX and CNAME records for Azure as they now support FQDN which they didn't before.
• Made fallback to secondary domain controller more robust when both DCs are managed by a single DNS Server Controller

• Minor UI improvements

• The warning message for users running the SQL server that is older than 2014 now reads: "SQL Server 2014 or higher is recommended for Men & Mice" instead of being stated that they are outdated.
  
  

Bug Fixes

• A bug was fixed in the web interface where opening properties of ranges when there is property with <none> as default value would result in an error
• A bug was fixed where utilization for DHCP scopes would not be persisted on SQLite.
• A bug was fixed where a deadlock could occur in the database cleanup of SQLite. 

7.3.1

December 2nd, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of Version 7.3.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where a crash could occur when syncing zone that contained records that were identical except for character case

• An issue was fixed where Men & Mice Central could crash in the case that it got an empty zone transfer

• An issue was fixed where the connection to Azure DNS could be unexpectedly closed during login

• An issue was fixed where a DS record could not be added or deleted on dynamic zones on BIND

• An issue was fixed where IgnoreZones preference was ignored when a server was synchronized for the first time

7.2.5

October 6th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.2.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a fix for the updater agent for Men & Mice Central.

Fixes

• An issue in the updater agent for Men & Mice Central has been fixed. This issue caused an older version of the updater to be installed. 

7.2.4

September 28th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.2.4 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 issue in CVE-2016-2776. For more information see https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01419. 

7.2.2

July 7th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of Version 7.2.2 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains a single bug fix

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where the state of a virtual appliance was wrongly reported as Unknown instead of OK. This did not affect the basic usage of the appliance, but prevented configuration of the appliance. 

7.2.1

July 6th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of Version 7.2.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Bug fixes

• Optimizations were done for DNS synchronization when deleting records with custom properties

• IgnoreZones property was changed so it now only applies to master zones

• An issue was fixed where Central would sometimes fail to connect to a DNS server controller

• An issue was fixed where cached DNS master zone records in Central were unnecessarily cleared

• Performance was improved for the GetDNSRecords and SetDNSRecordAging SOAP commands

• An issue was fixed in the AD synchronization thread that was causing the thread to incorrectly add or remove subnets

• Central now keeps connections to remotes open for a longer time in order to improve performance

• An issue was fixed where newly created DNS records were removed from the suite during a synchronization

• An issue was fixed where DNS Zones could go out of sync in certain situations when IXFR failed

   

7.1.15

August 23^rd, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 7.1.15 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a single bug fix. 

Bug fixes

• Leases in the BAD ADDRESS state are now handled correctly

7.1.14

June 29^th, 2017

Men & Mice announces the release of Version 7.1.14 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-2017-3142: 

    An attacker able to send and receive messages to an authoritative
    DNS server may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR
    requests via a carefully constructed request packet.

  • CVE-2017-3143:

    An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an
    authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG
    key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to
    manipulate BIND into accepting a dynamic update.

    
    
    

7.1.12

January 12th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.12 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-2016-9131: A malformed response to an ANY query can cause an
    assertion failure during recursion. See https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01439 for more details. 
  • CVE-2016-9147: An error handling a query response containing inconsistent
    DNSSEC information could cause an assertion failure. See https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01440 for more details. 
  • CVE-2016-9444: An unusually-formed DS record response could cause
    an assertion failure. See https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01441 for more details. 
  • CVE-2016-9778: An error handling certain queries using the nxdomain-redirect
    feature could cause a REQUIRE assertion failure in db.c. See https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01442 for more details. 

7.1.11

November 1st, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.11 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 issue in CVE-2016-8864. For details, see https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01434.

7.1.10

October 6th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.10 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a fix for the updater agent for Men & Mice Central.

Fixes

• An issue in the updater agent for Men & Mice Central has been fixed. This issue caused an older version of the updater to be installed. 

7.1.9

September 28th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.9 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 issue in CVE-2016-2776. For more information see https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01419. 

7.1.8

August 17th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.8 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where creating swap space could take more space than it should have

• An issue was fixed where errors related to the health checks, wrongfully appeared in the event log
• The performance was improved for gathering lease history
• An issue was fixed where the state of a virtual appliance was wrongly reported as Unknown instead of OK. This did not affect the basic usage of the appliance, but prevented configuration of the appliance. 

7.1.7

July 12th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.7 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• An issue was fixed where a deadlock could occur when external scripts are calling Central back through SOAP calls

• Optimizations were done for DNS synchronization when deleting records with custom properties

• IgnoreZones property was changed so it now only applies to master zones

• An issue was fixed where Central would sometimes fail to connect to a DNS server controller

• An issue was fixed where cached DNS master zone records in Central were unnecessarily cleared

• The performance was improved for the GetDNSRecords and SetDNSRecordAging SOAP commands

• An issue was fixed in the AD synchronization that was causing the system to incorrectly add or remove subnets

• Central now keeps connections to remotes open for a longer time in order to improve performance

• An issue was fixed where newly created DNS records were removed from the suite during a synchronisation

7.1.6

May 10th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.6 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• A bug was fixed which made it impossible to edit exclusions on Cisco servers
• Inconsistencies were fixed in checks if Active Directory integrated zones are loaded before reading zone data

Improvements

• Improve performance of adding/modifying/removing DNS records in large DNS Zones

• Fix a user interface glitch in the Managment Console during horizontal scrolling
• A system setting was added to allow disabling recalculation of subnet utilization when a range is opened in the Management Console

7.1.5

April 6th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Bug fixes

• It was not possible to disable or enable disabled DNS records when the zone had an associated slave instance
• The health check for slave zone expiry was incorrect for low SOA refresh values
• It was not possible to select individual custom fields in "Determine Address use" in System Settings
• M&M Central made excessive and unnecessary heavy updates to the database during DNS Synchronization
• It could take extremely long time to retrieve records from large IPv6 reverse zones. IPv6 reverse zones are now only retrieved with zone transfers, and aging value is not retrieved from these zones.
• It was not possible to open server options in presence of a master root zone on a MS DNS server, and it was not possible to open the master root zone
• The signed status of non-Master zones on MS DNS Servers was being checked unnecessarily, causing excessive load in certain situations
• The DNS Synchronization could be erroneously stopped under extreme circumstances

Improvements

• Users can now change their password through the Web Interface

7.1.4

March 10th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing a couple of bug fixes and 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 CVE-2016-1285 and CVE-2016-1286. 

Bug fixes

• Check for missing glue records no longer fails if NS record refers to a record in a domain whose name ends with the zone name, but is not a subdomain of it

• A bug was fixed where the Management concole would crash when editing server options for a FreeBSD BIND server that can't determine its interfaces

7.1.3

March 3rd, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.3 of the Men & Mice Suite. This is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes as well a bug fix in a 3rd party software on the Men & Mice appliances. 

• The glibc library on the Men & Mice appliances was updated to fix the CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability

• It is now possible to disable unreachable DHCP servers

• Issues were fixed that could cause the health bar to crash MMMC under unusual circumstances

• It is no longer possible to create saved filters for AD Sites

• A bug was fixed where an AD forest could not be changed to/from read-only

• It is now possible to create forward zones on caching DNS servers

7.1.1

January 20th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 7.1.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Appliance

• ISC BIND has been upgraded to 9.9.8-P3 on the DNS/DHCP appliance, that addresses critical security flaws in the BIND software. Click here for details. 
• ISC DHCP has been upgraded to 4.3.3-P1 on the DNS/DHCP appliance, that addresses critical security flaws in the DHCP software. Click here for details. 

6.9.1

13. November 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.9.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Updates and fixes in this release

• An issue was fixed where removing multiple roles at a time would cause Men & Mice Central to lock-up
• An issue was fixed with using keyboard shortcuts for copying data to the jump to field in the management console
• The system health monitoring can now disabled in Advanced system settings
• An issue was fixed where the DHCP server controller could get stuck when communicating to a specific service on a Windows server
• An issue was fixed where the licence count was wrongly calculated. 
• Requests sent at connection time from Central to remotes will now time out after 5 minutes

6.8.12

March 16th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.12 of the Men & Mice Suite.

This is a maintenance release containing performance and stability improvements for M&M Central and Management Console

Improvements:

• Drastically improve the time it takes to configure/de-configure DHCP Failover for scopes on servers with a large number of scopes.
• When removing DHCP Scopes, it's no longer necessary to manually de-configure the failover first

6.8.11

March 10th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.11 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 CVE-2016-1285 and CVE-2016-1286. 

6.8.10

March 3rd, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.10 of the Men & Mice Suite. This is a maintenance release containing a bug fix in a 3rd party software on the Men & Mice appliances. 

• The glibc library on the Men & Mice appliances was updated to fix the CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability

6.8.8

January 20th, 2016

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.8 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Appliance

• ISC BIND has been upgraded to 9.9.8-P3 on the DNS/DHCP appliance, that addresses critical security flaws in the BIND software. Click here for details. 
• ISC DHCP has been upgraded to 4.3.3-P1 on the DNS/DHCP appliance, that addresses critical security flaws in the DHCP software. Click here for details. 

6.8.7

December 16th, 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.7 of the Men & Mice Suite

Appliance

• BIND has been upgraded to 9.8.8-P2 on the DNS/DHCP appliance, that addresses critical security flaws in the BIND software. Click here for details.

Improvements

• DHCP failover relationships are now cached in Central - significantly improving login time in environments with many DHCP servers
• DHCP Backup is now done separately from the DHCP Synchronization

• Add DHCP failover column and DHCP failover awareness in Scope Statistics to Web Interface

Bug fixes

• Fixed duplication of reservations in memory due to missing unique constraint in database
• When de-configuring a DHCP scope from DHCP failover, one of the scope instances is now disabled or removed

• Records are no longer being deleted and re-added when only TTL is changing

• Various bug fixes related to Change Request related API calls

6.8.5

September 28th 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.5 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Updates and fixes in this release

• A problem was fixed where some lease history files where not read on a Windows DHCP server

• A problem was fixed where the DHCP Server Controller would get stuck trying to open a RPC connection on Windows

• A problem was fixed where discovery would not start on scheduled time

• The Allocation Wizard now correctly calculates available space beyond last subrange

• The Allocation Wizard now handles creating discovery schedules correctly

• Requests sent at connection time from Central to remotes will now time out after 5 minutes

6.8.4

September 2nd 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.4 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the DNS server software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed. For details refer to CVE-2015-5722 and CVE-2015-5986.

6.8.3

July 29th 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.3 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the DNS server software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed. For details refer to CVE-2015-5477. 

• A problem was fixed where backing up an SQLite database through Men & Mice CMD would lock up the database.

• A problem was fixed where reservations were created incorrectly on Cisco DHCP servers.

6.8.2

July 7th 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.2 of the Men & Mice Suite.

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the DNS server software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed. For details refer to CVE-2015-4620. 

• A bug was fixed where a zone transfer was in some cases interrupted in a dynamic zone signed with TSIG. 
  
  

6.8.1

16. June 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.8.1 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Updates and fixes in this release

• Enabling scavenging for records now works for all DNS records in AD integrated zones

• Fixed a bug in the Web Interface where an IP address could not be edited if it had a dynamic DNS record

• Fixed a bug where doing a bulk change of DHCP Scope properties could remove subnets from their AD Site

• Converting a lease to a reservation in a MS DHCP Failover scope no longer fails under certain circumstances

• DNS records of non-master zones are no longer being cached in Central

• No longer show DHCP Leases which the DHCP server is in the process of deleting

• GetRanges and related SOAP commands have been optimized by reducing number of database queries

6.7.9

August 10th 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.9 of the Men & Mice Suite. 

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the DNS server software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed. For details refer to CVE-2015-5477. 
• An issue was fixed, where invalid DNS records containing tabs could be added though the SOAP interface.

6.7.6

19. February 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.6 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains a single update. 

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the DNS server software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed. For details refer to CVE-2015-1349. 

6.7.5

19. January 2015

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.5 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains a single update for the Men & Mice appliances.

Updates and fixes in this release

• Under specific circumstances, the syslog process on the appliances could stop running. This fix makes sure that the syslog process is running at all times.

6.7.4

15 December 2014

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.4 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Updates and fixes in this release

• It is now possible to check for updates through a web proxy 
• A new web task to bulk import data
• The MacOS X installer uses launchctl to start the services
• The access control dialog is now resized on smaller displays
• The installer on Linux/Unix now supports installation of the Generic DNS Server Controller
• Loading of users and groups when Men & Mice Central is started is optimized
• Due to the "POODLE" vulnerability, the SSLv3 protocol is now disabled on the Men & Mice appliances
• It is now possible to use the "Fix..." functionality to fix reservation mismatch in an ISC failover setup

6.7.3

8. December 2014

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.3 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Updates and fixes in this release

• A vulnerability was found in the software for the Caching appliances which has been patched and fixed. 
• A vulnerability was found in the software for the DNS/DHCP appliances which has been patched and fixed.

6.7.2

25 November 2014

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.7.2 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Updates and fixes in this release

• It is now possible to select "Edit server name" for unresponsive appliances

• HTML reserved characters in custom filter names are now rendered correctly in the web UI

• When asking if the Management Console should be updated, version numbers to upgrade from and to are no longer reversed

• Fixed an issue where the Windows installer for Men & Mice Central didn't always replace binaries for the service

• Re-introduced "Free" column to range/scope list

• Fixed issue where DHCP group location for ISC DHCP servers was always reported as being outside of any subnet

• Fixed issue where certain DHCP options didn't work properly on Microsoft DHCP

• Editing list of preferred servers now works correctly for multi-forest AD zones
• When a reservation with a lease is deleted, the lease is now shown correctly in the UI
• Migrated scopes are now disabled correctly if the user requests it
• it is now possible to duplicate zones on generic DNS servers
• Management Console now prompts for save comment when adding slave, stub and forward zones
• Various performance and stability enhancements

15 July 2014

Men & Mice Announces the release of version 6.6.2 of the Men & Mice Suite. This release contains several updates and fixes.

Don't have version 6.6 yet?

Take a look at the new features in the Men & Mice Suite 6.6 Release Notes and see what you are missing out on!

Updates and fixes in this release

• Fixed bug that made it impossible to edit DNS records through the web interface in version 6.6.1
• Online help in the web interface should now always display the correct help page
• Users without IPAM license should no longer be denied access to certain DNS records because of IPAM access restrictions
• DNS Server Controller for BIND no longer overrides global zone transfer restrictions when attempting to allow zone transfers to localhost
• Search and Update wizard no longer clips search results that are too wide to show in the wizard dialog