release notes

git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@273 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       </affiliation>
     </author>
     
-    <PubDate>v2.1 $Date: 2005/01/11 19:24:27 $</PubDate>
+    <PubDate>v2.1 $Date: 2005/01/11 21:01:08 $</PubDate>
     
     <Abstract>
        <para>  
@@ -86,30 +86,118 @@
          See <ulink url="http://ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/cvstrac/pdns/timeline">the new timeline</ulink> for progress reports.
        </para>
        <para>
+         The 'million domains' release - PowerDNS has now firmly established itself as a major player with the 
+         unofficial count (ie, guesswork) now at over two million PowerDNS domains! Also, the GeoBackend has been tested
+         by a big website and may soon see wider deployment. Thanks to Mark Bergsma for spreading the word!
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         It is also a release with lots of changes and fixes. Take care when deploying!
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         Security issues:
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               GMySQL now works on Solaris
+               PowerDNS could be temporarily DoSed using a random stream of bytes. Reported cause of this has been fixed.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+         </itemizedlist>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+         Enhancements:
+         <itemizedlist>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Reported version can be changed, or removed - see the "version-string" setting.
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               PowerDNS could be confused by questions with a %-sign in them
+               Duplicate MX records are now no longer considered duplicate if their priorities differ. Some people need this feature for
+               spam filtering.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+         </itemizedlist>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+       Bug fixes:
+       <para>
+         <itemizedlist>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               NAPTR records can now be slaved, patch by Lorens Kockum.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               GMySQL now works on Solaris
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               Duplicate MX records are now no longer considered duplicate if their priorities differ.
+               PowerDNS could be confused by questions with a %-sign in them - fixing cvstrac ticket #16 (reported by dilinger at voxel.net)
              </para>
            </listitem>
+
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               Reported version can be changed, or removed
+               An authentication bug in the webserver was possibly fixed, please report if you were suffering from this. Being unable
+               to authenticate to the webserver was what you would've noticed.
              </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>
-               An authentication bug in the webserver was possibly fixed, please report if you were suffering from this.
+               Fix for cvstrac ticket #2, PowerDNS could lose sync when sending out a very large number of notifications. Excellent bug report
+               by Martin Hoffman, who also improved our original bugfix.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Fix the oldest PowerDNS bug in existence - under some circumstances, PowerDNS would log to syslog one character at a time. 
+               This was cvstrac ticket #4
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               HINFO records can now be slaved, fixing cvstrac ticket #8.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               pdns_recursor could block under some circumstances, especially in case of corrupt UDP packets. Reported by Wichert Akkerman. Fix by 
+               Christopher Meer. This was cvstrac ticket #13.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Large SOA serial numbers would sometimes be logged as a signed integer, leading to negative numbers in the log.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               PowerDNS now fully supports 32 bit SOA serial numbers (thanks to Mark Bergsma), closing cvstrac ticket #5.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               pdns_recursor --local-address help text was wrong.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Very devious bug - PowerDNS did not clear its cache before sending out update notifications, leading slaves
+               to conclude there was no update to AXFR. Excellent debugging by mkuchar at wproduction.cz.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Probably fixed cvstrac ticket #26, which caused pdns_recursor to fail on recent FreeBSD 5.3 systems. Please check, 
+               I have no such system to test on.
+             </para>
+           </listitem>
+           <listitem>
+             <para>
+               Geobackend did not get built for Debian. 
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>