Being out of excuses to postpone this release, we are releasing PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.1.0 today.
A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog.
There are too many changes and bugfixes to mention in this short announcement; among the new features, you might be interested in structured logging or, for users of the LMDB backend, the ability to add comments to their RRsets, a feature which used to be available on SQL backends only.
Please make sure to read the Upgrade Notes before upgrading.
The tarball and its signature is 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 5.1.0 version marks the end of support for version 4.8. However, users with a commercial agreement with PowerDNS.COM BV or Open-Xchange can receive support for releases which are End Of Life. If you are such a user, this EOL statement does not apply to you.
