diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ee2c63d707..9d31a1271b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+4142.	[bug]		rndc addzone with view specified saved NZF config
+			that could not be read back by named. This has now
+			been fixed. [RT #39845]
+
 4141.	[bug]		A formatting bug caused rndc zonestatus to print
 			negative numbers for large serial values. This has
 			now been fixed. [RT #39854]
diff --git a/bin/named/server.c b/bin/named/server.c
index ca850f3613..55982c6ff3 100644
--- a/bin/named/server.c
+++ b/bin/named/server.c
@@ -5374,7 +5374,7 @@ setup_newzones(dns_view_t *view, cfg_obj_t *config, cfg_obj_t *vconfig,
 	 */
 	cfg_parser_reset(ns_g_addparser);
 	result = cfg_parse_file(ns_g_addparser, view->new_zone_file,
-				&cfg_type_newzones, &nzcfg->nzconfig);
+				&cfg_type_addzoneconf, &nzcfg->nzconfig);
 
 	return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
 }
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/addzone/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/addzone/tests.sh
index 849376624e..ffa934ef57 100755
--- a/bin/tests/system/addzone/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/addzone/tests.sh
@@ -311,6 +311,18 @@ n=`expr $n + 1`
 if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo "I:failed"; fi
 status=`expr $status + $ret`
 
+echo "I:checking rndc reload causes named to reload the external view's NZF file ($n)"
+ret=0
+$RNDC -c ../common/rndc.conf -s 10.53.0.2 -p 9953 reload 2>&1 | sed 's/^/I:ns2 /'
+$DIG +norec $DIGOPTS @10.53.0.2 -b 10.53.0.2 a.added.example a > dig.out.ns2.int.$n || ret=1
+grep 'status: NOERROR' dig.out.ns2.int.$n > /dev/null || ret=1
+$DIG +norec $DIGOPTS @10.53.0.4 -b 10.53.0.4 a.added.example a > dig.out.ns2.ext.$n || ret=1
+grep 'status: NOERROR' dig.out.ns2.ext.$n > /dev/null || ret=1
+grep '^a.added.example' dig.out.ns2.ext.$n > /dev/null || ret=1
+n=`expr $n + 1`
+if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo "I:failed"; fi
+status=`expr $status + $ret`
+
 echo "I:checking rndc showzone with newly added zone ($n)"
 ret=0
 $RNDC -c ../common/rndc.conf -s 10.53.0.2 -p 9953 showzone added.example in external > rndc.out.ns2.$n
diff --git a/lib/isccfg/namedconf.c b/lib/isccfg/namedconf.c
index cc2ebde89b..e2b9207ff1 100644
--- a/lib/isccfg/namedconf.c
+++ b/lib/isccfg/namedconf.c
@@ -1731,24 +1731,6 @@ LIBISCCFG_EXTERNAL_DATA cfg_type_t cfg_type_bindkeys = {
 	&cfg_rep_map, bindkeys_clausesets
 };
 
-/*% The new-zone-file syntax (for zones added by 'rndc addzone') */
-static cfg_clausedef_t
-newzones_clauses[] = {
-	{ "zone", &cfg_type_zone, CFG_CLAUSEFLAG_MULTI },
-	{ NULL, NULL, 0 }
-};
-
-static cfg_clausedef_t *
-newzones_clausesets[] = {
-	newzones_clauses,
-	NULL
-};
-
-LIBISCCFG_EXTERNAL_DATA cfg_type_t cfg_type_newzones = {
-	"newzones", cfg_parse_mapbody, cfg_print_mapbody, cfg_doc_mapbody,
-	&cfg_rep_map, newzones_clausesets
-};
-
 /*% The "options" statement syntax. */
 
 static cfg_clausedef_t *
@@ -1956,6 +1938,13 @@ LIBISCCFG_EXTERNAL_DATA cfg_type_t cfg_type_addzoneconf = {
 	&cfg_rep_map, addzoneconf_clausesets
 };
 
+/*
+ * XXXMPA Remove in 9.11.  Backwards API compat only.
+ */
+LIBISCCFG_EXTERNAL_DATA cfg_type_t cfg_type_newzones = {
+	"newzones", cfg_parse_mapbody, cfg_print_mapbody, cfg_doc_mapbody,
+	&cfg_rep_map, addzoneconf_clausesets
+};
 
 static isc_result_t
 parse_unitstring(char *str, isc_resourcevalue_t *valuep) {