BIND 9.5.0 has a number of new features over 9.4, including:
- GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645).
- DHCID support.
- Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml.
- More detailed statistics counters including those supported in BIND 8.
- Faster ACL processing.
- Internal documentation generated by Doxygen.
- Efficient LRU cache-cleaning mechanism.
- NSID support (RFC 5001).