[Pdns-announce] PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.7 released

[Miod Vallat]

We couldn't help but notice, over the last few decades, that whenever
there is a new PowerDNS software release, this is, by far, the major
and most important news item of the day.

However, it has been brought to our attention that, if we were to
release on July 4th, people in some vague country overseas might not be
paying attention. Moreover, releasing on Fridays tends to be generally
frowned upon those days, so even though we had planned everything for a
July 4th release, we eventually decided to wait for the next Monday.

Therefore, today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS
Authoritative Server. This 4.9.7 version carries a few bug fixes,
mostly in the LMDB backend, when operating in Lightning Stream mode.

(Note that, due to unexpected technical difficulties with the release
  process, release 4.9.6 had to be skipped)

A detailed list of changes can be found in the [1]changelog.

Please make sure to read the [2]Upgrade Notes before upgrading.

The [3]tarball and its [4]signature are available at
[5]downloads.powerdns.com. Packages for various distributions are
available from [6]repo.powerdns.com.

Please send us all feedback and issues you might have via the
[7]mailing list, or in case of a bug, via [8]GitHub.

Note that per our [9]End of life policy, the release of version 4.9
marked the end of support for version 4.6.

References

1. https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/changelog/4.9.html#change-4.9.7
2. https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/upgrading.html
3. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-4.9.7.tar.bz2
4. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-4.9.7.tar.bz2.sig
5. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/
6. https://repo.powerdns.com/
7. https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
8. https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/new/choose
9. https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/appendices/EOL.html