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              FOSDEM 2026 DNS Devroom Call For Presentations
Peter van Dijk on Nov 04, 2025
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 2026. As with the previous events, we hope to ...
              
              
              PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.1
Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2025
Today, we are releasing PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.0.1. This release contains a few bug fixes and improvements, and one new feature for LMDB backend users.
              
              
              First Alpha Release for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0
Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2025
Here at the secret PowerDNS Labs, we have been working very hard at growing new crops of DNS software (while pretending to grow tulips in order to remain unnoticed).
              
              
              PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.5
Peter van Dijk on May 07, 2025
Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This 4.9.5 version carries a few bug fixes, as well as a performance optimization in the LMDB backend which will greatly improve databas...
              
              
              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.