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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released
Erik Winkels on Jan 24, 2019
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 ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8 Released
Erik Winkels on Nov 26, 2018
We’ve released PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8. This release fixes Security Advisory 2018-09 that we recently discovered, affecting PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.1.7. PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.x and belo...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4....
Erik Winkels on Nov 06, 2018
We’ve released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4.1.5. These are security releases with additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Minimal patches for the releases are av...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.2 Released
Erik Winkels on Mar 29, 2018
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation and fixes several issues related to EDNS Client Subnet. The full changelog looks like this: New Features #6344: Add FFI version of gett...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.1
Erik Winkels on Jan 22, 2018
This is the second release in the 4.1 train with a fix for the following DNSSEC security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2018-01: Correctly handle ancestor delegation NSEC{,3} for children (CVE-2018-1000003)...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 Released
Erik Winkels on Dec 11, 2017
Today we announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 which contains a fix for the following security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2017-08: Crafted CNAME answer can cause a denial of service (CVE-2...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1
Erik Winkels on Dec 04, 2017
This is a major release containing significant speedups (both in throughput and latency), enhanced capabilities and a highly conformant and robust DNSSEC validation implementation that is ready for heavy producti...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Erik Winkels on Nov 17, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC3 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test the previous Recursor release candidates. The third Release Candidate adds support for Botan 2.x (and removes support for B...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 30, 2017
Hot on the heels of RC1, PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC2 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test Recursor RC1. The second Release Candidate contains several correctness fixes for DNSSEC, mostly i...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 11, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC1 is here! The RC1 release features many fixes to the DNSSEC validation code, reported by different users. Other improvements include: logging, RPZ and the Remote Logger. While not speci...