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FALCON-512 in PowerDNS
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
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 ...
Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8
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...
Authoritative Server 4.6.0
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3
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...
First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
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...
PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell
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...
First Beta Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.2
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...