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PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.4 Released

Written by Otto Moerbeek | Jan 14, 2026 8:52:48 AM

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.4.

This release is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs and introduces a few improvements. The most important ones are:

  • Potential OpenTelemetry EDNS values are skipped when comparing queries and calculating packet cache hashes.
  • The parsing of webserver loglevel “none” in YAML settings has been fixed.

There are also a few other bug fixes and improvements, please refer to the changelog (5.3.4) for additional details.

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

The tarballs 5.3.4 (signature) are available from our download server and packages for several distributions are available from our repository.

Recently we made changes to our Open Source End of Life policy. Older release trains are now supported for one year after the following major release. Consult the EOL policy for more details.

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.