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<sect2 id="changelog-2-9-18"><title>Version 2.9.18 (unreleased)</title>
<para>
- The '8 million domains' release, which also marks the battle readiness of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release brings a number of new features,
+ 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!
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ 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).
+ In the course of testing, over 350 million actual queries have been recorded and replayed, the answers turn out to be satisfactorily.
</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.
+ (over 20000 queries/second) and in fact does so better than major other nameservers, giving more complete, 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
the pdns recursor is among the faststest around.
</para>
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+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Under high loads, or when unlucky, some query mthreads would get 'stuck', and show up in the statistics as eternally running queries.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
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<para>
Lots of redundant gettimeofday() and time() calls were removed, which has resulted in a measurable speedup.