[MARA] MaraDNS 1.3.07.01 release (betatest release)

[Sam Trenholme]

I generally release major new versions of MaraDNS on solstices. I released
MaraDNS 1.0.00 on June 21, 2002; MaraDNS 1.2.00 on December 21, 2005,
and MaraDNS 1.3.01 (Starting with 1.3, there are no longer .00 releases)
on December 21, 2006. In keeping with this tradition, I release the
first betatest release of the 1.3 branch of MaraDNS today: 1.3.07.01.

This is a betatest release. No, not "beta" the way Google means "beta"
("beta", in Google parlance, seems to mean "we're too lazy to have a
real release cycle for our web apps"). This means that no new features
will be added to the MaraDNS 1.3 code before it is declared stable. The
only changes before I declare 1.3 stable will be more SQA tests added,
documentation improvments, and bug fixes.

The two big features added to the 1.3 branch are:

    * It is now possible to have djbdns-style delegation of subdomains 
      with the recursive resolver
    * BIND zone files are now supported, via a Python script that 
      converts BIND zone files in to MaraDNS-1.3-compatible zone files

In terms of the MaraDNS 1.0 branch, the only changes that will be done
with that branch are "typo-bugfixes" and security fixes. When a say a
"typo bugfix", I mean a bugfix that requires changing 10 lines or less
of code. MaraDNS 1.0 "how do I" questions have not been answered by
me for about a year (but you may be able to get support on the mailing
list). Typo-bugfixes will only be applied with the MaraDNS 1.0 code for
six more months. After that, only security bug fixes will be applied to
MaraDNS 1.0. On December 21, 2010, I will stop supplying security fixes
to MaraDNS 1.0.

In terms of the MaraDNS 1.2 branch, this is still the stable branch
of MaraDNS. Since, however, 1.3 is now frozen, I will start to phase
out the kinds of bugs I will fix in 1.2. Security, bugs, of course,
will continue to be fixed. As will typo-bugs. However, any other bugs
will need a compelling reason for me to fix. For example, I will no
longer fix RFC-compliance bugs in 1.2 unless you can show me a serious
real-world problem the lack of RFC compliance is causing.

Anyway, MaraDNS 1.3.07.01 is available for download here:

    www.maradns.org/download.html

I encourage people to help me beta-test and find bugs in the 1.3 branch.