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description: We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0.
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# [First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 | PowerDNS Blog](https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/10/05/first-beta-release-of-powerdns-recursor-4-8-0)

 Written by [Otto Moerbeek](https://blog.powerdns.com/author/otto-moerbeek) | Oct 5, 2022 4:00:00 AM

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0.

Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes:

- [Structured Logging](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#structured-logging-backend) has been implemented for almost all subsystems. This allows for improved (automated) analysis of logging information. We’ve posted a [blog](https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/10/03/structured-logging-in-powerdns-recursor/) about this feature recently.
- Optional [Serve Stale](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/internals.html#serve-stale) functionality has been implemented, providing resilience against connectivity problems towards authoritative servers.
- Optional [Record Locking](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#record-cache-locked-ttl-perc) has been implemented, providing an extra layer of protection against spoofing attempts at the price of reduced cache efficiency.
- Internal tables used to track information about authoritative servers are now [shared](https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/08/29/sharing-data-between-threads-in-powerdns-recursor/) instead of per-thread, resulting in better performance and lower memory usage.
- EDNS padding of outgoing DoT queries has been implemented, providing better privacy protection.
- Metrics have been added about the protobuf and dnstap logging [subsystems](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/manpages/rec_control.1.html) and the [rcodes](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/metrics.html#auth-xxx-answers) received from authoritative servers.

As always, there are also many smaller bug fixes and improvements, please refer to the [changelog](https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.0-beta1) for additional details. When upgrading do not forget to check the [upgrade guide.](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/upgrade.html)

We are also announcing the removal of [XPF](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#xpf-allow-from) support. If you are using this feature, switch to the [proxy protocol](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#proxy-protocol-from).

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 [tarball](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.8.0-beta1.tar.bz2) ([signature](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.8.0-beta1.tar.bz2.sig)) is available from our download [server](https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/) and packages for several distributions are available from our [repository](https://repo.powerdns.com/).

With the final 4.8 release, the 4.5.x releases will be marked “End of Life” and the 4.6.x and 4.7.x releases will go into critical fixes only mode. Consult the EOL [policy](https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/EOL.html) for more details.

We would also like to mention that with the 4.5 release we stopped supporting systems using 32-bit time. This includes many 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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