Blog entries for "software"

Surprise bugs and release schedules

10 Feb 2010
By Michael Graff

I know this won’t be a shock to anyone, but software has bugs.

Sometimes they are discovered and have little real impact — perhaps a few lines of code change and are easily tested. Ideally they occur early in a release cycle so they don’t really affect much. Most of the time these are minor and are easily put into a release at any point.

ISC Software Lifetimes

11 Sep 2009
Jeremy Reed

By Jeremy C. Reed on September 14, 2009 5:32 PM

ISC recently improved its software support lifetime and End-of-Life (EOL) policies. Previously, ISC only provided public development and commercial support for the latest major release version and the prior major release version. Also the next older major release version became EOL six months after the latest major release was announced. (So for six months, three major versions are supported.)

 

BIND 10 The Story So Far...

05 Sep 2009
By Shane Kerr, BIND 10 Programme Manager

BIND 10 is, briefly, a re-design and re-write of BIND 9. BIND 9 is itself a re-design and re-write of BIND 8. BIND 9 is by far the most widely used DNS server on the Internet (one estimate is something like 80% of DNS servers). For ISC, and I think for the DNS community, BIND 10 is going to be a Big Deal.