<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The BIND 9.16 release branch is approaching EOL as of April, 2024. We encourage users running 9.16 or (gasp) 9.11, to upgrade to 9.18. <div><br></div><div>The 9.18 branch has consistently out-performed the 9.16 branch, and we are confident that it is more stable than 9.16. One of our support engineers has prepared a helpful knowledgebase article on updating from 9.16 to 9.18 (<a href="https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-bind-916-to-918">https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-moving-from-bind-916-to-918</a>) which may be useful to you as you plan your migration.</div><div><br></div><div>For an overview of our release plan, we maintain another knowledgebase article (<a href="https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896">https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896</a>). This was updated earlier this month, to move the start of future new stable branches from Q1 to Q2. The problem with starting a new stable branch in Q1 is, after the long holiday quiet period, we always have a number of important fixes and changes we need to release *before* we can start a new stable branch. We are currently projecting that our next stable branch, BIND 9.20, will be released in Q2.</div><div><br></div><div>For your convenience, we also maintain our planned EOL dates listed next to each software release on <a href="https://www.isc.org/download/">https://www.isc.org/download/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Vicky Risk</div></body></html>