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Erik Winkels on Dec 11, 2025

Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.12 and 5.0.2 versions contain minor bugfixes over the previous 4.9.11 and 5.0.1 versions, as well as a small new feature al...

Erik Winkels on Oct 15, 2025

Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Erik Winkels on Sep 24, 2025

Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Erik Winkels on Aug 07, 2025

Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Erik Winkels on Jul 24, 2025

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0-beta1

Erik Winkels on Dec 03, 2024

On 2024-06-28 it was announced we would be removing the Debian 10 and RHEL 7 repositories of our open source software at the end of this year.

Erik Winkels on Apr 14, 2023

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Erik Winkels on Sep 21, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce the first release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the beta release, this release fixes two bugs: • Only do QName Minimization for the names ins...

Erik Winkels on Jun 21, 2019

These are security releases. The 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 (together with 4.1.9) releases fix the following security advisories: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-04 (CVE-2019-10162) PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-05 (CVE-...

Erik Winkels on Jun 13, 2019

This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respecti...