Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8

Peter van Dijk on Feb 01, 2022

As you might be aware, CentOS 8 has reached End of Life on December 31st 2021. Furthermore, yesterday, CentOS 8 actually disappeared from the distribution mirrors. While we had made plans for this, we failed to e...

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Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Jan 25, 2022

Hello! after a very useful beta/RC period in which we received some excellent bug reports, we released Authoritative Server version 4.6.0 today. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3

Peter van Dijk on Jan 21, 2022

Hello! Today we published release 4.5.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the LMDB backend, and for the zone cache. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure t...

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First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Jan 14, 2022

Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are three notable new features: support for incomin...

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PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell

Peter van Dijk on Dec 16, 2021

As you may have heard, a critical vulnerability in the Log4J library was published recently. We have received questions about our software’s vulnerability to these exploits. None of our open source products use J...

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First Beta Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 09, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Beta version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROXY...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2

Peter van Dijk on Nov 25, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.2 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes one issue: RFC2136/nsupdate: apply new TTL to whole RRset, not only to the added record Please find a full list in th...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.2

Peter van Dijk on Nov 10, 2021

Hello! Today we published release 4.5.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the bindbackend, and for SOA handling. These fixes are especially important for zone cache users. Plea...

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First Alpha Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Oct 07, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROX...

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security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

Peter van Dijk on Jul 26, 2021

Hello, today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.1, fixing a remotely triggered crash present in version 4.5.0. No other versions are affected. Tarballs and signatures are available at https://down...

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