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Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2021

Hello! Today we released the second, and hopefully last, Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notabl...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 25, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Beta version for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone cache. The zone cac...

Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone cache. The zone ca...

Peter van Dijk on Mar 11, 2021

Hello, We are happy to announce version 4.3.2 of the Authoritative Server. This release fixes latency calculations to match the approach used in 4.4.0, to make comparisons between 4.3 and 4.4 more useful. It also...

Peter van Dijk on Feb 08, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.1 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes several small issues discovered since the release of 4.4.0. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sur...

Peter van Dijk on Dec 18, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. As of now, versions 4.1.x and older are End Of Life. ...

Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2020

Hello! This is the first Release Candidate for version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. If no trouble surfaces, we will release the actual 4.4.0 within a few weeks. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please s...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 23, 2020

Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-beta1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting c...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 17, 2020

Short version: the PowerDNS Recursor already implements mitigations to the SAD DNS attack. However, our users will likely be vulnerable to the most complex variant of the attack, which exploits kernel behaviour. ...