BIND 9.5.0 Beta 1 is now available. BIND 9.5.0b1 is a beta release for BIND 9.5.0. This is a technology preview of new functionality to be be released in BIND 9.5.0. It is feature-complete. New APIs and new configuration syntax are not yet frozen. Please as a minimum perform a test build on your operating system. We don't have test platforms for every operating system and sometimes we accidently break builds. Now is the time to tell us about that. bind9-bugs@isc.org. Bugs should be reported to bind9-bugs@isc.org. BIND 9.5 has a number of new features over BIND 9.4, including: - GSS-TSIG support (RFC 3645). - DHCID support. - Experimental http server and statistics support for named via xml. - Faster ACL processing. - Use of Doxygen to generate internal documention. BIND 9.5.0b1 can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/bind-9.5.0b1.tar.gz The PGP signature of the distribution is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/bind-9.5.0b1.tar.gz.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/bind-9.5.0b1.tar.gz.sha256.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/bind-9.5.0b1.tar.gz.sha512.asc The signature was generated with the ISC public key, which is available at . A binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window 2003 is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.zip ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.debug.zip The PGP signature of the binary kit for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Window 2003 is at ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.zip.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.zip.sha256.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.zip.sha512.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.debug.zip.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.debug.zip.sha256.asc ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.0b1/BIND9.5.0b1.debug.zip.sha512.asc