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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.4 Released
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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released
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-...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released
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...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 1 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since the beta 1: #7818: Use net-snmp-config --netsnmp-agent-libs instead of --agent-lib...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released
This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released
The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so i...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.12 Released
This is a maintenance release with improvements for high-performance sites (and a wild bug fix appeared). The changelog: #7634: Use a bounded load-balancing algo to distribute queries. #7651: Implement a configur...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released
Since Spectre / Meltdown, system calls have become more expensive. In addition, relevant versions of glibc turn out to implement pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal in such a way that they use multiple syst...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released
This release is only relevant when building PowerDNS Recursor from source with protobuf support disabled. Release 4.1.10 fixes a bug where the recursor would not build when one had protobuf support disabled. The ...