BIND 9.16 is approaching EOL in April, 2024

[John Thurston]

I assume the day is approaching when the packages in the COPR 
repositories will be changed; isc/bind-esv will have 9.18 (instead of 
9.16), and ics/bind will have 9.20

So that we might start weaving this into our maintenance plans, is there 
a projected date on which this will happen?

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 2/26/2024 7:35 AM, Victoria Risk wrote:
> The BIND 9.16 release branch is approaching EOL as of April, 2024. We 
> encourage users running 9.16 or (gasp) 9.11, to upgrade to 9.18.
>
> The 9.18 branch has consistently out-performed the 9.16 branch, and we 
> are confident that it is more stable than 9.16. One of our support 
> engineers has prepared a helpful knowledgebase article on updating 
> from 9.16 to 9.18 
> (https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-bind-916-to-918 
> <https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-bind-916-to-918>) 
> which may be useful to you as you plan your migration.
>
> For an overview of our release plan, we maintain another knowledgebase 
> article (https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896 
> <https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896>). 
> This was updated earlier this month, to move the start of future new 
> stable branches from Q1 to Q2. The problem with starting a new stable 
> branch in Q1 is, after the long holiday quiet period, we always have a 
> number of important fixes and changes we need to release *before* we 
> can start a new stable branch. We are currently projecting that our 
> next stable branch, BIND 9.20, will be released in Q2.
>
> For your convenience, we also maintain our planned EOL dates listed 
> next to each software release on https://www.isc.org/download/ 
> <https://www.isc.org/download/>.
>
> Vicky Risk
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