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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:20:02 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Correction: 9.3.0rc4 [Re: HEADS UP! BIND 9.2.3 coming soon!]
Message-ID:  <414A0382.4040509@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <4149AD1B.1050902@samsco.org>
References:  <4149AD1B.1050902@samsco.org>

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Scott Long wrote:
> All,
> 
> I wanted to give everyone fair warning that BIND 9.2.3 will be replacing 
> the ancient BIND8 in HEAD/6-CURRENT in the next few days, likely this 
> weekend.  If you are running production BIND servers then you might want
> to hop over to http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/FAQ.php and read up
> to make sure you won't have any surprises.  BIND9 will then be merged to
> RELENG_5 once it has settled in HEAD and will be the default for the 5.3
> release.  There are no plans to merge it into RELENG_4 or any other 
> branch at this time.  I know that it is quite late in the release cycle
> to be doing this, but it is probably the highest requested feature for
> 5.3 at this point and we need to switch to the 9.x codebase for RELENG_5
> since the 8.x codebase is quite old and is nearing the end of its life.
> Many thanks and best of luck to Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Tom Rhodes for
> leading this effort.
> 
> Scott

Wanted to follow up and say that I spoke a little too quickly earlier.
It looks like the BIND guys will be importing 9.3.0rc4, not 9.2.3.

Scott



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