heading up to 2.9.18 release

git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@445 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index dac21de25ab781cc9d0089195c064bdad569dacd..a2589fd27edafb88f16527b5f47fd9a31c3b24c8 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl intro
 AC_INIT(pdns/receiver.cc)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(pdns, 2.9.18-svn)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(pdns, 2.9.18)
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AC_C_BIGENDIAN 

diff --git a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
index b050e15ee97c32bfcaee1f785943fe12a4e571eb..62ccb5bcdb8bca0472a6f3ff1b85e2c77720576c 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
+++ b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
@@ -81,11 +81,14 @@
        Before proceeding, it is advised to check the release notes for your PDNS version, as specified in the name of the distribution
        file.
       </para>
-      <sect2 id="changelog-2-9-18"><title>Version 2.9.18 (unreleased)</title>
+      <sect2 id="changelog-2-9-18"><title>Version 2.9.18</title>
+       <para>
+         Released on the 14th of July 2005.
+       </para>
        <para> 
          The '8 million domains' release, which also marks the battle readiness of the PowerDNS Recursor. The latest improvements have been made possible
          by financial support and contributions by <ulink url="http://register.com">Register.com</ulink> and
-         <ulink url="http://www.xs4all.nl/">xs4all</ulink>. Thanks! 
+         <ulink url="http://www.xs4all.nl/">XS4ALL</ulink>. Thanks! 
        </para>
        <para>
          This release brings a number of new features,
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@
        </para>
        <para>
          This testing has verified that the pdns recursor, as shipped in this release, can stand up to heavy duty ISP loads 
-         (over 20000 queries/second) and in fact does so better than major other nameservers, giving more complete, being faster to boot.
+         (over 20000 queries/second) and in fact does so better than major other nameservers, giving more complete answers and being faster to boot.
        </para>
        <para>
          We invite ISPs who note recursor problems to record their problematic traffic and replay it using the tools described in
@@ -282,6 +285,11 @@
                Improve our TCP answers by using writev, which is slightly friendlier to the network.
              </para>
            </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               On FreeBSD, TCP errors could cause the recursor to exit suddenly due to a SIGPIPE signal.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Maximum number of simultaneous client TCP connections can now be limited with the <command>max-tcp-clients</command> setting.
@@ -5135,20 +5143,11 @@ local0.err                        /var/log/pdns.err
     <para>
       Before migrating to PDNS a few things should be considered. 
       <variablelist>
-       <varlistentry>
-         <term>PDNS is not a recursing nameserver on its own</term>
-         <listitem>
-           <para>
-             If PDNS receives a question for which it is not authoritative, it can't go out on the net to figure out an answer. However, 
-             because many installations are expected to be both authoritative and recursing, PDNS can use a separate recursing backend
-             to provide non-authoritative answers. See <xref linkend="recursion"> for more details.
-           </para>
-         </listitem></varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>PDNS does not operate as a 'slave' or 'master' server with all backends</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
-             Only the Generic PostgreSQL, Generic MySQL and BIND backends have the ability to act as master or slave.
+             Only the Generic SQL and BIND backends have the ability to act as master or slave.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
@@ -5373,9 +5372,10 @@ local0.err                        /var/log/pdns.err
       all mistakes are ours. Here are the current faults, so nobody can accuse us of false advertising:
       <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>
-           Only compiles on Linux, Windows and possibly Solaris. FreeBSD 4.x decided not to support the 
+           Only compiles on Linux, FreeBSD 5.x, Windows and possibly Solaris. FreeBSD 4.x decided not to support the 
            POSIX get/set/swapcontext functions. Bug your favorite FreeBSD kernel or libc maintainer for a fix,
-           or ask him to port MTasker (see below) to your operating system.
+           or ask him to port MTasker (see below) to your operating system. It may work on recent 4.x systems, 
+           letus know!
          </para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>
            May have big problems with truncated packets (solved in 2.9.18)