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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...
FOSDEM 2018 DNS devroom CfP!
Hello DNS-enthusiasts and other developers, After two successful BoF sessions at FOSDEM 2016 and 2017, FOSDEM 2018 will see a real DNS devroom! We hope to host talks anywhere from hardcore protocol stuff, to prac...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
We present what should be our last release candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0: Release Candidate 3! If no major issues are found we expect to release the final version within the next two weeks. Th...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Now that the Release Candidate 1 has simmered for a while, we present PowerDNS Authoritative Server Release Candidate 2! Thanks to everyone who tested RC1. This release has several performance improvements, stabi...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!
This release features a fix for the ed25519 verifier. This verifier hashed the message before verifying, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on the Elliptic Curve front, support was added for ED448 (DNSSEC...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.0.4 Release Candidate 1 released!
Because 4.0.3 is 5 months ago, and a lot has happened since (see the long changelog below), we are doing a release candidate for release 4.0.4. The full changelog looks like this: Bug fixes #5346: configure.ac: c...
Authoritative Server 3.4.10
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.10 of our Authoritative Server. This release fixes several bugs, decreases CPU usage and allows better interoperability with PowerDNS 4.0.X databases. It also a...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 released!
We are proud and happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release has a great number of new features and improvements compared to PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4. M...