PowerDNS version 2.9.6 released!

     http://downloads.powerdns.com and http://www.powerdns.com/downloads

Two new backends - Generic ODBC (windows only) and LDAP. Furthermore, a few
important bugs have been fixed which may have hampered sites seeing a lot of
outgoing zonetransfers. Additionally, the pdns recursor now has 'query
throttling' which is pretty cool. In short this makes sure that PowerDNS
does not send out heaps of queries if a nameserver is unable to provide an
answer. Many operators of authoritative setups are all too aware of
recursing nameservers that hammer them for zones they don't have, PowerDNS
won't do that anymore now, no matter what clients request of it.

   Warning

   There is an unresolved issue with the BIND backend and 'overlapping'
   slave zones. So if you have 'example.com' and also have a separate
   slave zone called 'external.example.com', things may go wrong badly.
   Thanks to Christian Laursen for working with us a lot in finding this
   issue. We hope to resolve it soon.

     * BIND Backend now honours notifies, code to support this was
       accidentally left out. Thanks to Christian Laursen for noticing
       this.
     * Massive speedup for those of you using the slightly deprecated
       MBOXFW records. Thanks to Jorn of ISP Services for helping
       and testing this improvement.
     * $GENERATE had an off-by-one bug where it would omit the last
       record to be generated (Christian Laursen)
     * Simultaneous AXFRs may have been problematic on some backends.
       Thanks to Jorn of ISP-Services again for helping us resolve this
       issue.
     * Added LDAP backend by Norbert Sendetzky, see Section A.11.
     * Added Generic ODBC backend for Windows by Michel Stol.
     * Simplified 'out of zone data' detection in incoming AXFR support,
       hopefully removing a case sensitivity bug there. Thanks again to
       Christian Laursen for reporting this issue.
     * $include in-zonefile was broken under some circumstances, losing
       the last character of a filename. Thanks to Joris Vandalon for
       noticing this.
     * The zoneparser was more case-sensitive than BIND, refusing to
       accept 'in' as well as 'IN'. Thanks to Joris Vandalon for noticing
       this.

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