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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.0 with Lightning Stream support

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.0 with Lightning Stream support

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.0. In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and ther...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.7.4

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.7.4

This is the release of version 4.7.4 of the Authoritative Server. It contains various bug fixes, some performance improvements, and one new feature (pdnsutil list-member-zones).

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

Hello, Today we have released maintenance updates of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues. For more details on the other fixes, consult the changelogs avai...

FOSDEM 2023 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2023 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After three earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms at FOSDEM 2018, 2019, and 2020, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2023. As with the previ...

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgr...

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

This is the release of version 4.7.2 of the Authoritative Server. Just one day after releasing version 4.7.1, we realised an important fix was missing from it. Specifically, AXFR clients (secondaries) can get ver...

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

This is the release of version 4.7.1 of the Authoritative Server. After 4.7.0 (quite recently) was released, we realised the SQL schema update files were missing. 4.7.1 corrects this. It also contains a few small...

Authoritative Server 4.7.0

Authoritative Server 4.7.0

This is the release of version 4.7.0 of the Authoritative Server. 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were r...