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-Version 3.0.1  [22-11-2006]
+Version 4.0  [2011-10-22]

 
 

-  Fixed a minor bug in the FORWARD and SLAVE macros, causing it to
-  generate bogus output with certain versions of M4.
+  This version brings several incompatible changes with a common
+  goal: instead of generating a full named.conf, produce a fragment
+  which can be included from a parent config file.

 
 

-Version 3.0  [20-02-2005]
+  o  BIND_OPTIONS, FORWARD and SLAVE are gone. Just write the
+     options to the parent config file. (If you think it is somewhat
+     inconvenient, ask BIND developers to change the config file
+     parser, so that multiple options { } sections can be specified.)
+  o  Root hints became optional. If you want them, use ROOTHINT().
+
+  Furthermore, several features have been added:
+
+  o  A FORWARDING macro for generating forward-only zones.
+  o  A BLACKHOLE macro for blackhole zones as per RFC 6303.
+     Blackhole zones in example cf/domains updated to use this macro.
+  o  When contents of a zone do not change, the version number is
+     not incremented. Unfortunately, BIND tends to produce a warning
+     in such cases, and it be turned off.
+
+Version 3.1  [2008-05-21]
+
+  o  Fixes for compatibility problems with recent versions of GNU m4.
+  o  Added support for TXT, RP and SRV records.
+
+Version 3.0.1  [2006-11-22]
+
+  Fixed bugs in in the FORWARD and SLAVE macros, causing it to
+  generate bogus output sometimes.
+
+Version 3.0  [2005-02-20]

 
   One year of testing should be good enough, so releasing 2.99b as 3.0
   with almost no changes. The only one is:
 
   o  ZONE_OPTIONS macro added, allowing to add custom options to zones.
 
 
   One year of testing should be good enough, so releasing 2.99b as 3.0
   with almost no changes. The only one is:
 
   o  ZONE_OPTIONS macro added, allowing to add custom options to zones.
 

-Version 2.99b  [21-12-2003]
+Version 2.99b  [2003-12-21]

 
   This version has been almost rewritten from scratch. The syntax
   of configuration files is incompatible with the previous versions,
 
   This version has been almost rewritten from scratch. The syntax
   of configuration files is incompatible with the previous versions,


@@ -25,7 +51,7 @@ Version 2.99b  [21-12-2003]
   o  Cleaned up names of all macros, the namespaces are now clearly
      defined.
 
   o  Cleaned up names of all macros, the namespaces are now clearly
      defined.
 

-Version 2.3  [27-06-2001]
+Version 2.3  [2001-06-27]

 
   o  Global parameters (hostmaster mail address etc.) can be set
      in cf/config now.
 
   o  Global parameters (hostmaster mail address etc.) can be set
      in cf/config now.


@@ -33,7 +59,7 @@ Version 2.3  [27-06-2001]
   o  Fixed bugs in convert script.
   o  Generate $TTL to make new releases of bind happy.
 
   o  Fixed bugs in convert script.
   o  Generate $TTL to make new releases of bind happy.
 

-Version 2.2  [11-09-1999]
+Version 2.2  [1999-09-11]

 
   o  Corrected localhost records.
   o  Name-server restart command can be overriden (useful for setups
 
   o  Corrected localhost records.
   o  Name-server restart command can be overriden (useful for setups