Hello, bind-users readers: ISC would like you to know that new versions of BIND are available; release candidates BIND 9.6-ESV-R9rc1, BIND 9.8.5rc1, and BIND 9.9.3rc1 have been released and made available via ISC's web and ftp sites.
We'd also like to take a minute of your time to explain a recent change in our announcement procedures when new versions of BIND are made available. Until recently it has been our policy, when a new version is released, to send an announcement to each of the bind-related ISC public mailing lists. For those who are subscribed to multiple lists, this results in considerable duplication of the announcement e-mails. While it's true that disk space is cheap, your time and attention are precious and limited commodities and we would rather not bombard you with news of our releases if it's not necessary. We've thought about it and decided that bind-announce is the suitable forum for these announcements and from now on we would like to send the announcement messages only to bind-announce. This will be a change in status for bind-users and bind-workers subscribers. For the next several releases we will also post to bind-users and bind-workers with a reminder message like this one so that members who are subscribed only to those lists will see that there are new versions, but we urge you to take a moment to subscribe to bind-users if you are not already receiving it. List traffic is minimal and consists almost exclusively of new version announcements and security advisories from ISC. You can subscribe to the bind-announce list by visiting: https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-announce If you want to survey past list content without subscribing you can go to: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-announce/ Bind-users and bind-workers will continue to fulfill their functions as valuable community resources and discussion forums but beginning with this set of releases they will no longer receive the customary new version announcements. Our hope is that this will result in fewer duplicate messages for everyone. Thank you, Michael McNally ISC Support _______________________________________________ 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
