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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.0
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. ...
First Release Candidate for Authoritative 4.4.0
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...
Authoritative 4.4.0-beta1
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...
PowerDNS Recursor and the SAD DNS attack
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. ...
Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha3
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha3 of the Authoritative Server. (A painful bug in the LMDB backend was found just as we started the Alpha 2 release process, so we decided to skip right on t...
Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha1
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha1 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 ...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14
Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14, containing a fix for PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-05. Additionally, we are publishing PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06 t...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.2 Released
This release fixes issues in the IXFR receive code, improves cache management, and corrects a few other small things. If you use IXFR, please read the upgrade notes carefully. Please see the changelog for more de...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0
Hello! We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.3.0. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible changes for users. If you read the upgrade notes for a beta or RC, plea...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0 first release candidate
Hello! We are proud to announce the first, and hopefully last, release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release, but there are a few interesting ch...