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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...
Authoritative Server 3.4.9
Released 17th of May 2016 This is a minor bugfix and performance release. Two contributions by Kees Monshouwer make 3.4.9 fully compatible with the new single key ECDSA default that is coming in version 4.0.0. Ch...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.8
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.8 of our Authoritative Server. This is a small bugfix release to 3.4.7. Additionally, the deb/RPM packages on downloads.powerdns.com (those with -static in the ...
Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released
We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...
PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...
PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22 was released more than 6 years ago, in January 2009. Because of its immense and durable popularity, some patch releases have been provided, the last one of which (2.9.22.6) wa...