First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Sep 4, 2019

We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced:

  • A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemented. To test this feature, do not forget to enable qname-minimization in the settings file.
  • When the recursor is started by systemd, the recursor will no longer run as the root user. Instead, it will start as the pdns-recursor user. Make sure directories and files needed by your specific recursor setup are readable by this user. For non-systemd and non-chroot cases, the default location of the control socket and pid file has changed to /var/run/pdns-recursor.

Please see the changelog for details about other improvements and bug fixes and the documentation for more details about setting up the recursor.

We want to thank everyone that contributed to this and earlier releases, and invite you to contribute to the testing of this alpha release!

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

Please send us all feedback and issues you might have via the mailing list, or in case of a bug, via GitHub.

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Otto Moerbeek

Otto Moerbeek

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