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+Version 4.0  [2011-10-22]
 
-  o  Added the FORWARDING macro for generating forward-only zones.
+  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 3.1  [21-05-2008]
+  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  [22-11-2006]
+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  [20-02-2005]
+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.
 
-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,
@@ -33,7 +51,7 @@ Version 2.99b  [21-12-2003]
   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.
@@ -41,7 +59,7 @@ Version 2.3  [27-06-2001]
   o  Fixed bugs in convert script.
   o  Generate $TTL to make new releases of bind happy.
 
-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