Pos6 0.60.0pre1 is out!

Hello,

I've just released a new version of the Posadis 0.60.x development 
series, Pos6 0.60.0pre1. Pos6 now contains all Posadis 0.50.x 
functionality (and more!), except for using IXFR for client zone 
transfers and support for bitstring labels and DNAME records, which I'm 
not really planning to add anyway now the IETF is marking them as 
'experimental'. Additionally, I would describe Pos6 during my tests as 
"surprisingly stable".

Either way, Pos6 0.60.0pre1 adds the following functionality:

    * Support for zone transfers
    * Support for secondary DNS
    * Support for DNS NOTIFY
    * Complete user documentation (both tutorials and reference!)
    * Support for zone files in the FAM module (Unix)
    * Service support for Win32, support for SIGHUP and rc scripts for Unix

Apart from that, some bugs have been squashed, including a crash in the 
caching/resolving functionality.

So, if you want to try Pos6, I'd say now is the time. You can fetch your 
very own build here:

    http://www.posadis.org/files/pos6-0.60.0pre1/

As you can see, the dnsquery and mfedit tools now also have a 0.60.0pre1 
version number, to make it in sync with Pos6. This version numner (a 
rather huge inflation since the previous 0.2.0 version of Pos6) is meant 
to more clearly present Pos6 as the successor of Posadis 0.50.x. Now 
that the most important 0.50.x functionality has been implemented and 
improved, a final 0.60.x release will come soon, when I think that Pos6 
is stable enough for production use. Until then, I will keep releasing 
0.60.0preX builds that will fix bugs. Few additional new functions 
beyond what's here now should be expected in Posadis 0.60.0; these will 
be put into 0.60.1.

So, in conclusion, I'd say: get your Pos6 build soon, and report as much 
bugs as you can, the lesser the better.


Meilof
 -- [email protected]



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