<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">BIND currently exports number of libraries, including libisc, libisccfg, libirs, libisccc, libdns and libbind9.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We don’t know of any external projects that use these libraries. Keeping the ABI and API stable is big burden, and we are exploring the possibility of merging all the libraries into a tightly-coupled private library that wouldn't be used outside of BIND (and tools). This change would effectively make those libraries private. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BIND 9.14 in 2019 would be the first release that would drop the libraries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The BIND 9.11 ESV would keep those libraries until 2022, so any external users would have enough time to migrate to other DNS libraries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Known external users of libisc and friends:</div><div class="">- ISC DHCP (will continue using BIND 9.11 libraries)</div><div class="">- dnsperf (either use BIND 9.11 libraries, or offer ISC project)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let us know if you see a significant problem with this plan, including which library you are using and how you are using it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vicky</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------</div><div class="">
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