Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog
dnsdist 1.7.3 released
Peter van Dijk on Nov 02, 2022
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
Peter van Dijk on Nov 01, 2022
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
Peter van Dijk on Oct 31, 2022
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
Peter van Dijk on Oct 20, 2022
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...
First release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0
Peter van Dijk on Oct 03, 2022
This is the first release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. We hope it will also be the last 😊 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the fresh...
Authoritative Server 4.7.0-beta2
Peter van Dijk on Sep 13, 2022
Hello! this is the first Beta release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0, even though it is called beta2. (beta1 was never released because of bugs found during the release process). 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.3
Peter van Dijk on Jul 13, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains two bug fixes, and marks the arrival of Ubuntu Jammy packages for the 4.6 branch. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.2
Peter van Dijk on Apr 12, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a carefully selected set of new features, plus a few bug fixes. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure to read ...
FALCON-512 in PowerDNS
Peter van Dijk on Apr 07, 2022
We are proud to introduce the first guest post on our blog! A team of researchers (listed below) has chosen PowerDNS as the basis for an implementation of post-quantum DNSSEC signing with the FALCON-512 algorithm...
Authoritative Server 4.7.0-alpha1
Peter van Dijk on Feb 17, 2022
Hello! this is the first Alpha release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. It brings a couple of new features into the hands of our users early. New features: lmdbbackend databases now get a UUID assigned, making it ...