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FOSDEM 2025: A Look Back at the DNS Devroom
Peter van Dijk on Mar 12, 2025
FOSDEM 2025, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, took place on February 1st and 2nd, 2025, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. As one of the largest non-commercial ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.4, 4.8.5, 4.7.5
Peter van Dijk on Feb 07, 2025
In the northern hemisphere, the first week of February is often synonymous with dull, cold, snowy winter. To light your fire and bring a smile to your faces, we are releasing three new versions of the PowerDNS Au...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.3
Peter van Dijk on Dec 17, 2024
This is release 4.9.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a collection of small fixes. A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog.

FOSDEM 2025 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation
Peter van Dijk on Oct 28, 2024
Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After several earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce another half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2025. As with the previous events, we hope to ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.2
Peter van Dijk on Oct 01, 2024
This is release 4.9.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a collection of small fixes. A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog.

More PQC in PowerDNS: A DNSSEC Field Study
Peter van Dijk on Jul 15, 2024
Two years ago, we had our first guest blog post, about FALCON-512 in PowerDNS. We are happy to now present a followup guest post on Post-Quantum Cryptography in DNSSEC.

End of life announcement: Debian 10, EL7
Peter van Dijk on Jun 28, 2024
At the end of June 2024, both Debian 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (and, with it, CentOS 7) will reach the end of their Security Support (or in the Debian case, Long Term Support).

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.1
Peter van Dijk on May 28, 2024
This is release 4.9.1 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a collection of small fixes. A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.0
Peter van Dijk on Mar 15, 2024
This is release 4.9.0 of the Authoritative Server. It brings a few new features, and a collection of small improvements and fixes. Some internals have been reworked to support the new features. A detailed list of...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.0-beta2
Peter van Dijk on Feb 16, 2024
This is release 4.9.0-beta2 (beta1 was not released, due to a tagging mistake) of the Authoritative Server. It brings a few new features, and a collection of small improvements and fixes. Some internals have been...