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Peter van Dijk on Sep 29, 2026

On the 31st of August of this year (2026) Debian 11 "Bullseye" reached the end of its Long Term Support period, at which point we consider Bullseye to be End of Life. As we do not want to support our software run...

Erik Winkels on Mar 16, 2026

Every year during winter, we at PowerDNS benefit from our developers being snowed in and having no choice but to work on our codebase. Now that the snowdrifts are about to start thawing, we can release that labou...

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...