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The all-rounder DNSdist 2.0 is here
Andrea Carpani on Jul 21, 2025
DNSdist is a powerful and versatile tool designed for a wide range of use cases. This is likely why DNSdist optimizes DNS traffic for hundreds of millions of internet users every day. Today, we are excited to ann...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-04
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 21, 2025
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.12, 5.1.6 and 5.2.4. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-04: A Recursor configured to send out ECS enabled queries can be sensitive to spoofing attempts...

Second release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Jul 17, 2025
Today we published the second release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

Simplifying Synchronization with Lightning Stream for Enterprise
Neil Cook on Jul 10, 2025
After continuous development of Lightning Stream for the PowerDNS community and the release of a Lightning Stream-schema for the PowerDNS Authoritative Server, we are excited to introduce our next product: Lightn...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 09, 2025
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Jul 08, 2025
Today we published the first release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.7
Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2025
We couldn't help but notice, over the last few decades, that whenever there is a new PowerDNS software release, this is, by far, the major and most important news item of the day.

PowerDNS Achieves Sylva Project Validation
Neil Cook on Jun 25, 2025
We’re proud to announce that our cloud-native deployment solution, PowerDNS Cloud Control, has been officially validated for the Sylva Project. After our successful certification for the VMware Ready for Telco Cl...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 25, 2025
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

First beta release of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2025
Today we released the first beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.