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Peter van Dijk on Feb 21, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce the second, and hopefully last, beta release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release, but there are a few interesting change...

Peter van Dijk on Jan 31, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible cha...

Peter van Dijk on Dec 10, 2019

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible ch...

Peter van Dijk on Dec 02, 2019

This release fixes several bugs and makes a few features more robust or intuitive. It also contains a few performance improvements for API users. Please see the changelog for more details. The tarball (signature)...

Peter van Dijk on Oct 17, 2019

PowerDNS Authoritative server 4.2 supports over 15 different backends. While reviewing the existing backends we came to the conclusion that the sheer amount of them holds us back from developing the core of the A...

Peter van Dijk on Oct 15, 2019

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and packed DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018 and 2019, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2020. As with the last years, we hope to ho...

Peter van Dijk on Aug 30, 2019

Hello everybody! We are very happy to announce the release of Authoritative Server 4.2.0. Besides a ton of bug fixes (please see the Changelog), this release also offers a nice collection of new features. This re...

Peter van Dijk on Aug 09, 2019

Thanks to an overwhelming amount of testing by our fabulous user community, this release candidate contains a ton of bug fixes (and a few improvements) compared to the previous one. We hope this has shaken out al...

Peter van Dijk on Aug 08, 2019

The 4.1.12 release was skipped due to a packaging issue. This is a bugfix release for high traffic setups using the pipebackend or remotebackend. It contains the following changes: gpgsqlbackend: add missing sche...

Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2019

Hello, Last Tuesday we published PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-06, which called for a schema update if you are using PostgreSQL with the Authoritative Server. We have now released updated packages for the 4.0.x...