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+Version 5.0  [2019-01-30]
+
+  Added support for DNSSEC. See section 8 of README.
+
+  It turned out that configurability of directory names (e.g., HASHDIR)
+  was incomplete and it made all scripts unnecessarily complicated.
+  We replaced the configuration variables by hard-coded names equal
+  to the previous default settings which hopefully nobody ever needed
+  to change.
+
+  Also, ROOTHINT() became obsolete as BIND packages now regularly come
+  with a well updated root hint file. Please set up the root hints in
+  the master bind configuration file before you include named.conf
+  generated by NSC.
+
 Version 4.0  [2011-10-22]
 
   This version brings several incompatible changes with a common