Here at the secret PowerDNS Labs, we have been working very hard at growing new crops of DNS software (while pretending to grow tulips in order to remain unnoticed).
Our latest crop has been hybridized with some bind crops, in order to build a PowerDNS Authoritative Server with a new, exciting, bind-like "views" feature, allowing one single Authoritative Server to behave as if there were multiple servers, answering different data depending upon where the request is originating from.
In addition to this new feature, we have also been working on bug fixes and documentation improvements, as well as some performance improvements with the LMDB backend (which are already available in the 4.9.5 release, for people not daring to give this 5.0.0 alpha a try).
A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog.
Please make sure to read the Upgrade Notes before upgrading.
The tarball and its signature are available at downloads.powerdns.com. Packages for various distributions are available from repo.powerdns.com.
We are looking forward to your feedback on this pre-release. Please send us all feedback and issues you might have via the mailing list, or in case of a bug, via GitHub.
Note that per our End of life policy, the release of the final 5.0.0 version will mark the end of support for version 4.7.
