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PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0-alpha1 Released
Remi Gacogne on Jan 29, 2026
Today we released the first alpha version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0. This new version brings many new features: OpenTelemetry tracing support has been added Structured logging has been added A an...
First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 27, 2026
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0!
PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.4 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 14, 2026
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.4. This release is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs and introduces a few improvements. The most important ones are:
First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 16, 2025
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0!
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.2 and 4.9.12 Released
Erik Winkels on Dec 11, 2025
Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.12 and 5.0.2 versions contain minor bugfixes over the previous 4.9.11 and 5.0.1 versions, as well as a small new feature al...
PowerDNS Security Advisories 2025-07 and 2025-08
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 08, 2025
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.9, 5.2.7 and 5.3.3. These releases fix two PowerDNS Security Advisories: 2025-07: Internal logic flaw in cache management can lead to a denial of service in Recursor 2...
PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 Released
Remi Gacogne on Dec 02, 2025
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 today, fixing several issues: the wrong reply address was used when using DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 on FreeBSD query rules were not processed after setting a tag from a d...
Celebrating 25 Years of PowerDNS
Robert Brandt on Nov 27, 2025
On October 31, 2000, PowerDNS.com B.V. was registered by our founder, former long-time colleague, and still dear friend Bert Hubert. A lot has happened since then. We’ve grown into a global company with engineeri...
FOSDEM 2026 DNS Devroom Call For Presentations
Peter van Dijk on Nov 04, 2025
Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After several earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce another half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2026. As with the previous events, we hope to ...
