20. Sep. 2003 - Unfortunately, I was quite busy the last months and I thus have to postpone the next release. That said, I would like to invite people willing to contributen to contact me. Any help is highly appreciated.
17. Jun. 2003 - Finally the new release is available. Changes include better support for slave zones, improved job handling, job revocation, use of CSS 2.0 in XSLT stylesheets and lots of bug fixes and code optimizations.
2. Jun. 2003 - Updates to the web page including the roadmap. Development is making good progress and the next release will be available soon. It will probably be the last version before 1.0 so if you have any suggestions which should be considered before a final stable version please write me an eMail.
22. Feb. 2003 - New release V0.99.1 available. Several bugs fixed. We now use the CPAN modules originated from this project. Support for change-root operation mode of Bind9 available. New script extractdata.pl included. You can (re-)create the configuration files for Bind9 from the database now.
8. Feb. 2003 - Well, the second module DNS::Config is now available on CPAN. May other projects find those modules to be useful for them too; I made an update to the roadmap to reflect upcoming changes.
4. Feb. 2003 - Part of the project is now available as a standalone perl module on CPAN named DNS::Zone. The next ZoneMaster release will make use of it and thus further development will continue independently.
30. Dec. 2002 - After some hard work I am pleased that I can announce the availability of version 0.99 of the ZoneMaster project. Changes include easier installation, higher performance and further improvements of the internal software architecture.
4. Dec. 2002 - As the project priorities underly changes continously I have to modify the roadmap to reflect them. One of these changes is the upcoming spin-off of one part of the project into two separate perl modules that will be stored in the CPAN archive (currently called Bind::Zone and Bind::Config).
25. Aug. 2002 - Well, it took longer then expected but version 0.98 is available now. Changes include slave servers, SOA editing, serial auto-increment and lots of others.
28. Jul. 2002 - A little homepage update, new roadmap. Preparing next release, only three todo items left on my list. Currently testing the massive changes.
13. Mai 2002 - The upcoming release still is not ready, sorry. As I recently went into business for myself, I am really busy at the moment. Most probably, I will make an intermediate release with only some items from my priority list soon.
1. Apr. 2002 - New web page design finished. Well, I am no web page designer but I tried my best to make the page more concise.
29. Jan. 2002 - The new release version 0.97 is available now. The library design was optimized heavily. The GUI has much more functionality.
14. Jan. 2002 - Some of you are waiting for the next release, I know. As I have been very busy for some weeks now there is some delay. The release will take place until about the end of the month.
3. Dec. 2001 - I tried to describe the upcoming library design. You can find a UML diagram and some description here.
18. Nov. 2001 - Screenshots of the current release are available now. They show the current user interface which is based on stylesheets and therefore might be customized quite easily.
4. Nov. 2001 - New release V 0.96 is available. It took longer than expected but the new job handling mechanism is working now. This release also contains the job handler script that executes all modifications (jobs) in the database and dumps out the zonefiles of all modified zones.
15. Oct. 2001 - Now that I am back from a business trip to Berlin the next release will be available soon. The current roadmap will be changed as it is a bit too optimistic. I decided to move some features to later versions and to approach towards a stable version 1.0.
1. Oct. 2001 - The new job handling mechanism is nearly finished. The implementation will be based on exclusive locks. The undo mechanism that is planned for future versions will require a simple form of transactions. This preliminary version allows the separation of user interaction and background execution.
2. Sep. 2001 - The new release V 0.95 is available. It contains lots of improvements regarding the user interface. Detailed installation instructions are included. Please have a look at the project page for our new forum and the mailing list.
9. Aug. 2001 - The project will move to sourceforge.net these days. A sourceforge.net project was created. You can find the project page here.
14. Jul. 2001 - A lot of work is done at the fronend part of this project and therefore I decided to make a new release now. It additionally consists of the CGI and the XSL-stylesheets. Any kind of feedback is welcome.
02. Jul. 2001 - Sorry for the delay. The user interface is nearly finished and will be released soon. It allows to access the database in an intuitive way. The XSLT-based approach gives a lot of flexibility. One design in one language (english) is available and others might follow.
20. Mai 2001 - Currently I am working on the frontend part of the project. After evaluating different session management modules from CPAN I most probably will use Apache::Session from Jeffrey Baker which seams to be quite flexible. The whole user interface will be XML/XSLT-based which provides the flexibility required to have different designs and different languages. The list view shown in the picture on this page already works as a stylesheet with Sablotron as XSLT processor.
22. Apr. 2001 - The new version 0.93 is available. It includes the bootstrap script and a lot of optimization.
27. Mar. 2001 - There was a lot of progress in the last weeks and I feel that I should make a release now. The new version 0.92 has a new package naming structure and database support. It contains the Bind::Zone module, formerly known as Zonefile.pm as well as the new Bind::Config and Bind::Database modules.
23. Feb. 2001 - New version 0.91 of the ZoneFile library released. Some minor changes, optimizations and bugfixes are done. Lots of things still are on my TODO-list. I will have a look at them after a first stable version of the Bind configuration library is finished. This is neccessary for a new and clean bootstrap script.
15. Feb. 2001 - One of my machines is driving me crazy. Seems to be a hardware problem. Unfortunately this machine is my CVS server. Backup exists ;-)
27. Jan. 2001 - Release of Version 0.9 of the ZoneFile library. The library is available as a beta-version for testing purposes. Your feedback is welcome.
11. Jan. 2001 - The ZoneFile library is nearly finished. Some testing is required before release. The library is now written in an object oriented manner. A lot of optimization is done too.
25. Dec. 2000 - Due to legal issues I have to rewrite all parts of ZoneMaster from scratch. As I have a clear understanding, of the design of this application, now, this shouldn't take too long.