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The BIND 9.6-ESV branch will reach its End of Life on Jan
1st. There will be no further bug fixes of any kind and BIND
9.6-ESV-R11 will be our final release version on the 9.6
release train. As of January 31st the BIND 9.6 train will be
deprecated.<br>
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This EOL date was announced on Dec 18th, 2012, ( <a
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href="https://www.isc.org/blogs/out-with-bind-9-7-and-in-with-bind-9-9/">https://www.isc.org/blogs/out-with-bind-9-7-and-in-with-bind-9-9/</a>
). We extended the original EOL date by six months. <br>
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We recommend that you plan your upgrade to BIND 9.9.4 or
higher. 9.9 is our current ESV (Extended Support Version),
and will be supported for 3 more years. </font><span
style="font-size: small; ">Additionally, when 9.10.0 is
released in the beginning of 2014, 9.8.x will be retired 6
months later, in July, 2014. Anyone upgrading now is advised
to skip over 9.8 and go directly to 9.9.<br>
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Thanks and Happy & Safe Holidays to everyone!<br>
ISC Support Team</font><br>
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