BIND 9.6.0a1 is now available.

[Mark Andrews]

		BIND 9.6.0a1 is now available.

BIND 9.6.0a1 is a alpha release for BIND 9.6.0.

	This is the first public alpha release for 9.6.0.

	If we have promised you that a bugfix will be included in 9.6.0
	and it is not in this release please let us know by mailing
	to bind9-bugs at isc.org.

	Please as a minimum perform a test build on your operating
	system.  We don't have test platforms for every operating
	system and sometimes we accidently break builds.  Now is
	the time to tell us about that.

	Now is also the last time to report bugs not introduced in
	this release cycle.  Once we go to beta we concentrate on
	removing bugs introduced in this release cycle.  The aim
	is to be better than and definitely no worse than the last
	release.  Bugs should be reported to bind9-bugs at isc.org.

BIND 9.6 has a number of new features over 9.5, including:

        Full NSEC3 support

        Automatic zone re-signing

        New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self

BIND 9.6.0a1 can be downloaded from

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/bind-9.6.0a1.tar.gz

The PGP signature of the distribution is at

        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/bind-9.6.0a1.tar.gz.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/bind-9.6.0a1.tar.gz.sha256.asc
        ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/bind-9.6.0a1.tar.gz.sha512.asc

The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is
available at <http://www.isc.org/ISC/isckey.txt>.

A binary kit for Windows XP and Window 2003 is at

	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.zip
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.debug.zip

The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows XP and Window 2003 is at
        
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.zip.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.zip.sha256.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.zip.sha512.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.debug.zip.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.debug.zip.sha256.asc
	ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.0a1/BIND9.6.0a1.debug.zip.sha512.asc