release notes

git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@438 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b

diff --git a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
index 5408bfad63d2d33ee7ce69f4da109ce367a321b8..bf503a9dacfeadf42a4e209e8110732a435ad67d 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
+++ b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml
@@ -86,6 +86,23 @@
          The '8 million domains' release, which also marks the battle readiness of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release brings a number of new features,
          but also has a new build dependency, the <ulink url="http://www.boost.org">Boost library</ulink>.
        </para>
+       <para>
+         Currently several big ISPs are evaluating the PowerDNS recursor for their resolving needs, some of them have switched already.
+         In the course of testing, over 350 million actual queries have been recorded and replayed, the answers turn out to be satisfactorily, 
+         although we are still looking into some very minor discrepancies (less than 0.05% of queries have unexplained differences).
+       </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. 
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         We invite ISPs who note recursor problems to record their problematic traffic and replay it using the tools described in
+         <xref linkend="analysis"> to discover if PowerDNS does a better job, and to let us know the results.
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         In other news, the entire Wikipedia constellation now runs on PowerDNS using the Geo Backend! Thanks to Mark Bergsma
+         for keeping us updated.
+       </para>
        <para>
          General bugs fixed:
          <itemizedlist>
@@ -96,7 +113,7 @@
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               Fix backend restarting logic (reported, and suggested fix by Norbert Sendetzky)
+               Fix backend restarting logic (reported, and fix suggested by Norbert Sendetzky)
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
@@ -142,6 +159,11 @@
                SSQLite would fail to compile on recent Debian systems (Matthijs Mohlmann)
              </para>
            </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Generic MySQL would not compile on 64-bit platforms.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </para>
        <para>
@@ -164,12 +186,13 @@
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               Extended regression tests, moved it to the new 'sdig' tool.
+               Extended regression tests, moved them to the new 'sdig' tool (see below).
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               Bind2backend is now blazingly fast, and highly memory efficient to boot. As a special bonus it can read gzipped zones directly. 
+               Bind2backend is now blazingly fast, and highly memory efficient to boot. As a special bonus it can read gzipped zones directly. The '.NET' zone
+               is hosted using 401MB of memory, the same size as the zone on disk.
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
@@ -180,10 +203,16 @@
                by Marc Jauvin of Register4Less.
              </para>
            </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               LDAP backend has been updated (Norbert Sendetzky).
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </para>
        <para>
-         See <xref linkend="recursion"> for details. Recursor improvements and fixes:
+         Recursor improvements and fixes.
+         See <xref linkend="recursion"> for details. The changes below mean that all of the caveats listed for the recursor have now been addressed.
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>
@@ -291,26 +320,7 @@
                for more details.
              </para>
            </listitem>
-           <listitem>
-             <para>
-               Generic MySQL would not compile on 64-bit platforms.
-             </para>
-           </listitem>
-         </itemizedlist>
-       </para>
-       <para>
-         New technology:
-         <itemizedlist>
-           <listitem>
-             <para>
-               Added the new DNS parser logic, called MOADNSParser. Completely modular, every memory access checked. 
-             </para>
-           </listitem>
-           <listitem>
-             <para>
-               'sdig', a simple dig workalike with 'canonical' output, which is used for the regression tests. Based on the new DNS parser logic.
-             </para>
-           </listitem>
+
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Generic Oracle Backend, sponsored by Register.COM. See <xref linkend="goracle">.
@@ -320,7 +330,6 @@
        </para>
       </sect2>
 
-      </sect2>
       <sect2 id="changelog-2-9-17"><title>Version 2.9.17</title>
        <para>
          See <ulink url="http://wiki.powerdns.com/projects/trac/timeline">the new timeline</ulink> for progress reports.