Hi,
Agreed. This has already been updated upstream in Unbound:
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/blob/master/smallapp/unbound-anchor.c 
Thanks,
-- 
Andres Pavez 
Cryptographic Key Manager 




On 6/10/26, 15:20, "Stuart Henderson" <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


It's highly likely that there will be a new unbound release to update to
before this is required, so I'd prefer to avoid complicating that update
by adding a local patch that will need to be merged.




On 2026/06/10 20:22, Andres Pavez wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> IANA has published a new Certificate Authority (CA) certificate used to 
> validate the authenticity of the DNS root zone trust anchors file 
> (`root-anchors.xml`).
> 
> The updated certificate bundle is available at:
> 
> https://data.iana.org/root-anchors/icannbundle.pem 
> <https://data.iana.org/root-anchors/icannbundle.pem> 
> 
> This bundle currently contains both the existing certificate and its 
> replacement certificate. Signatures chaining to the new certificate are 
> expected to be published in 2028, at which point relying parties will need to 
> validate using the new certificate.
> 
> Affected file(s):
> 
> * 
> [usr.sbin/unbound/smallapp/unbound-anchor.c](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/293caf0d3fbcaa7970dcbd7d26dff73771762c60/usr.sbin/unbound/smallapp/unbound-anchor.c__;!!PtGJab4!8moAWnAzP86bVOziAGfGuMGnSK5pvWTFvXmRya8iwF1hTbQ1JsKTKtaX-JSvg88qZURZ2KZC0cQpyFlhJR4TzqF1$
>  
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/293caf0d3fbcaa7970dcbd7d26dff73771762c60/usr.sbin/unbound/smallapp/unbound-anchor.c__;!!PtGJab4!8moAWnAzP86bVOziAGfGuMGnSK5pvWTFvXmRya8iwF1hTbQ1JsKTKtaX-JSvg88qZURZ2KZC0cQpyFlhJR4TzqF1$>
>  [github[.]com])
> 
> Please review whether the trust anchor validation material in this repository 
> should be updated to include the current contents of `icannbundle.pem`.
> 
> Considerations for updating the trust anchor are described in*DNSSEC Trust 
> Anchor Publication for the Root Zone* (RFC 9718).
> 
> Thank you.
> -- 
> Andres Pavez 
> Cryptographic Key Manager 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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