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Simplifying Synchronization with Lightning Stream for Enterprise
Neil Cook on Jul 10, 2025
After continuous development of Lightning Stream for the PowerDNS community and the release of a Lightning Stream-schema for the PowerDNS Authoritative Server, we are excited to introduce our next product: Lightn...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 09, 2025
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Jul 08, 2025
Today we published the first release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.7
Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2025
We couldn't help but notice, over the last few decades, that whenever there is a new PowerDNS software release, this is, by far, the major and most important news item of the day.

PowerDNS Achieves Sylva Project Validation
Neil Cook on Jun 25, 2025
We’re proud to announce that our cloud-native deployment solution, PowerDNS Cloud Control, has been officially validated for the Sylva Project. After our successful certification for the VMware Ready for Telco Cl...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 25, 2025
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

First beta release of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2025
Today we released the first beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

First Alpha Release for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0
Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2025
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).

Second alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on May 23, 2025
Today we released the second alpha version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.10 released, fixing CVE-2025-30193
Remi Gacogne on May 20, 2025
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.10 today, fixing several bugs including a security issue tracked as CVE-2025-30193 where a remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service via a crafted TCP connect...