The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features:

• Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so it is not kept around for days if the initial TTL is high,
• Add options dont-throttle-names and dont-throttle-netmasks to throttle authoritative servers that do not answer queries or send responses the recursor does not like,
• Add an option (pdns-distributes-queries) to make the distributor thread use a bounded load-balancing algorithm while distributing queries to worker threads, making sure that no thread is assigned more queries than distribution-load-factor times the average number of queries currently processed by all the workers.

Please see the changelog for details.

This release was made possible by contributions from: Aki Tuomi, Chris Hofstaedtler, Shane Kerr and Sebastian.

The tarball (signature) is available at downloads.powerdns.com and packages for CentOS 6 and 7, Debian Jessie, Stretch and Buster, Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial, Bionic and Cosmic are available from repo.powerdns.com.

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