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Erik Winkels on Mar 16, 2026

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.1.0-alpha1 Every year during winter, we at PowerDNS benefit from our developers being snowed in and having no choice but to work on our codebase. Now that the snowdrifts are about ...

Remi Gacogne on Mar 12, 2026

Today we released the second beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0. This new version brings a single fix since the first beta: the newly introduced Dynamic Block AllowedRCodeRatio could only be ...

Otto Moerbeek on Mar 09, 2026

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0!

Remi Gacogne on Feb 23, 2026

Today we released the first beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0. This new version brings new features and improvements since the first alpha: OpenTelemetry: add flags field in TRACEPARENT EDNS...

Peter van Dijk on Feb 20, 2026

Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.13 and 5.0.3 versions only contain bugfixes.

Neil Cook on Feb 17, 2026

A future-proof architecture, lower operational costs, improved scalability, and more efficient platform management through containerization, automation, orchestration, lifecycle management, monitoring, and alerti...

Otto Moerbeek on Feb 17, 2026

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0!

Otto Moerbeek on Feb 09, 2026

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.10, 5.2.8 and 5.3.5. These releases fix a PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-01: Crafted zones can lead to increased resource usage in Recursor There are two CVEs associa...

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...

Otto Moerbeek on Jan 27, 2026

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.4.0!