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title: PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released | PowerDNS Blog
description: We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9.
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# [PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released | PowerDNS Blog](https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/04/04/powerdns-recursor-4-6-2-and-4-5-9-released)

 Written by [Otto Moerbeek](https://blog.powerdns.com/author/otto-moerbeek) | Apr 4, 2022 4:00:00 AM

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9.

Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an improvement in the caching of negative results. The 4.6.2 release contains a feature to [disable](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/upgrade.html#deprecated-and-changed-settings) processing of root-hints and improvements to the refreshing of “almost expired” records and processing of native dns64.

Please refer to the change logs for the [4.6.2](https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.6.html#change-4.6.2) and [4.5.9](https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.5.html#change-4.5.9) releases for additional details.

Please send us all feedback and issues you might have via the [mailing list](https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users), or in case of a bug, via [GitHub](https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/new/choose).

The tarballs ([4.6.2](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.6.2.tar.bz2), [4.5.9](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.5.9.tar.bz2)) and signatures ([4.6.2](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.6.2.tar.bz2.sig), [4.5.9](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.5.9.tar.bz2.sig)) are available from our download [server](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/) and packages for several distributions are available from our [repository](https://repo.powerdns.com/).

The 4.3.x releases are EOL and the 4.4.x and 4.5.x releases are in critical fixes only mode. Consult the [EOL](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/EOL.html) policy for more details.

We would also like to repeat that starting with the 4.5 release branch we will stop supporting systems using 32-bit time. This includes most 32-bit Linux platforms.

We are grateful to the PowerDNS community for the reporting of bugs, issues, feature requests, and especially to the submitters of fixes and implementations of features.

 

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