Just for the record here are the release dates for each maintenance series.
9.0.0 2000-09-16 (one off - marked not for production) 9.1.0 2001-01-18 - 9.1.3 2001-07-03 (6 months) 9.2.0 2001-11-25 - 9.2.9 2007-09-25 (5 years 10 months) 9.3.0 2004-09-22 - 9.3.6 2008-11-19 (4 years 2 months) 9.4.0 2007-02-23 - 9.4.3 2008-11-19 - 9.4-ESV-R5 2011-08-01 (4 years 6 months) 9.5.0 2008-05-29 - 9.5.2 2009-09-23 (1 year 3 months) 9.6.0 2008-12-23 - 9.6.3 2011-02-04 - 9.6-ESV-R11 2014-01-31 (5 years 2 months) 9.7.0 2010-02-16 - 9.7.7 2012-10-09 (2 years 8 months) 9.8.0 2011-03-01 - 9.8.8 2014-09-29 (3 years 6 months) 9.9.0 2012-02-29 - 9.9.13 2018-07-11 (6 years 4 months, ESV) 9.10.0 2014-04-30 - 9.10.8 2018-07-11 (4 years 3 months) 9.11.0 2016-10-04 - 9.11.21 2020-07-15 (Current Stable, ESV) 9.12.0 2018-01-23 - 9.12.4 2019-03-01 (1 year 2 months) 9.13.0 2018-05-25 - 9.13.7 2019-02-27 (development) 9.14.0 2019-03-22 - 9.14.12 2020-05-19 (1 year 2 months) 9.15.0 2020-03-06 - 9.15.8 2020-01-22 (development) 9.16.0 2020-03-06 - 9.16.5 2020-07-15 (Current Stable, (should be future ESV)) 9.17.0 2020-03-18 - 9.17.3 2020-07-15 (current development) ESV = Extended Support Version > On 21 Jul 2020, at 09:05, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > > >> On 21 Jul 2020, at 03:45, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 7/17/2020 11:35 AM, John W. Blue wrote: >>> Speaking about things to be annoyed over .. >>> >>> I am still ticked that FreeBSD dropped BIND from the distribution for >>> something called unwinding or whatever it is. >>> >> >> I'm not happy that happened either but the simple fact is that if BIND would >> quit dropping support so fast for it's older versions that never would have >> happened. The fundamental problem was that BIND dropped support for it's >> older versions before the distros dropped support for their distros. This >> is happening with a lot of other software packages. > > There where lots of things happening at the time. There was misinformation > propagated to *BSD that BIND 9 going away much faster that any plans we had. > BIND 10 (now defunct) hadn’t even reached feature parity with BIND 9 which > was still being developed because the DNS protocol is still be developed. > > As for support life times. BIND 9.17 will load most BIND 8.0 configurations. > Thats 20+ years of backwards compatibility. > > Distributions also need to look at their own practices. They ask us to > supply long term support but do not actually integrate the maintenance > releases but instead cherry-pick just the security fixes. Maintenance is not > just security fixes. That means that we keep seeing bug reports that need to > be diagnosed about bugs we have fixed years ago. That really isn’t a good > use of peoples time. Not ours, not the distributions maintainers nor the > users time. Is there little wonder that we stop producing bug fixes releases > for old version when the distributions don’t use them? > >> When FreeBSD was used mostly for servers it wasn't a problem. But more >> and more people are using it for desktop use where they want to basically >> install it and forget about it, never run patches, never give >> a fig about security. Simpler programs like Unbound have less code >> and so less things to go wrong, need less patches, and are easier to >> support for a longer period of time so they get supported for a longer >> period of time. Also, Unbound's main purpose in life is as a caching >> dns program. Nobody who runs a server on FreeBSD uses Unbound. >> >> Ted >> >>> John >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Ted >>> Mittelstaedt >>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 12:57 PM >>> To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >>> Subject: Re: AW: Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to >>> named? >>> >>>> >>>> Your personal experience is not the gobal truth. It is your opinion but >>>> other experienced pepole see it different than you. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm I'm a bit late to this discussion but I will chime in with the others. >>> The service always was called "named" pronounced "name Dee" >>> it was called that in the Nutshell book which is easily the authoritative >>> book on the subject, it was called this before you were born and it was >>> kind of the height of hubris for it to ever be named >>> bind9 in a software distro. >>> >>> In fact, the ONLY reason that the name "bind9" was ever even coined at all >>> was because the changes from bind8 both in the syntax of the config file >>> and how the program operated they wanted to boot admins in the behind to >>> get them to change their config files. It should have been put to bed as a >>> name a long time ago, or named "bind version 9" like every other software >>> program does with their versions. >>> >>> So as an experienced person who has been doing this you-nuxs thing since >>> 1982 - I DON'T see it different - and in fact, I see it as a RETURN to what >>> it originally was! >>> >>> Ted >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to >>> unsubscribe from this list >>> >>> ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. >>> Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. >>> >>> >>> bind-users mailing list >>> bind-users@lists.isc.org >>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to >>> unsubscribe from this list >>> >>> ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. >>> Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. >>> >>> >>> bind-users mailing list >>> bind-users@lists.isc.org >>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> _______________________________________________ >> Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to >> unsubscribe from this list >> >> ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. >> Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. >> >> >> bind-users mailing list >> bind-users@lists.isc.org >> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. 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