BIND 9.9.3, BIND 9.8.5, and BIND 9.6-ESV-R9 have been released and are available to be downloaded from the ISC ftp site or from http://www.isc.org/downloads/all
Full release announcements have been posted to the bind-announce list (visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo to manage your subscriptions to ISC mailing lists or to visit the list archives.) --------------------------------------------------------------- BIND 9.9-ESV and a New Naming Convention for ESVs In addition to being the most feature-filled version of BIND to date, BIND 9.9.3 is also the first version in the BIND 9.9-ESV series. With the introduction of 9.9-ESV, ISC is changing our previous naming system for Extended Support Versions of BIND 9. Previously when a series was designated an extended support version of BIND, the naming of individual releases in that series was changed to include the designation string "ESV". For example, prior to 9.9-ESV, the previous ESV series was 9.6-ESV. In the BIND 9.6 release series, the versions that became the ESV branch were given names as follows: 9.6.1, 9.6.2, 9.6-ESV, 9.6-ESV-R1, ..., 9.6-ESV-R9 BIND 9.9-ESV is not going to continue this naming convention. Instead, BIND 9.9 series releases will be incremented normally (maintenance releases will increment the minor revision number, security fixes will add a suffix indicating an out-of-cycle patch, e.g. -P1, -P2, etc.) However, despite the omission of "ESV" from the version number, the BIND 9.9-ESV series will receive the same commitment to extended support lifetime that other ESV versions have received -- you can plan a migration to 9.9-ESV and have confidence that the code line will be supported for several years to come. The other difference in naming convention for 9.9-ESV applies to the identification string reported by the server (for example in response to named -V) Versions of 9.9-ESV will include the string "(Extended Support Version)" in their identification string, e.g. "BIND 9.9.3 (Extended Support Version" We hope that this will not cause unnecessary confusion for BIND users but after receiving feedback from customers and package maintainers it appeared that revising the naming convention for ESV releases was our best choice to address the concerns that some had expressed. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users