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Preparing for Post Quantum DNSSEC with PowerDNS
Today’s widely used DNSSEC signatures rely on mathematics that a sufficiently capable quantum computer could break. The timing of that capability remains uncertain, but changing
End of Life Announcement: Debian 11
On the 31st of August of this year (2026) Debian 11 "Bullseye" reached the end of its Long Term Support period, at which point we consider Bullseye to be End of Life. As we do not want to support our software run...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.1.3 Released
This release ships one new feature (SOA-EDIT spreading, combined with signature expiry extension) and a few bug fixes. You can read the full changelog.
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-07 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server
Today, we are releasing three new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.16, 5.0.6 and 5.1.2 versions provide fixes for the following PowerDNS Security Advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.1.1 Released
Despite our best efforts, a severe bug escaped our testing while working on the 5.1.0 release. Users of the LMDB backend, when not using the new ``lmdb-split-domain-table'', would fail to update their last notifi...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.1.0 Released
Being out of excuses to postpone this release, we are releasing PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.1.0 today. A detailed list of changes can be found in the changelog. There are too many changes and bugfixes...
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-06 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server
Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.15 and 5.0.5 versions provide fixes for the following PowerDNS Security Advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-06: Multi...
Automatic authenticated DNSSEC Bootstrapping in PowerDNS Authoritative
The chain of trust is better off without leaps of faith: Automatic authenticated DNSSEC Bootstrapping in PowerDNS Authoritative Server Authors: Barbara Jantzen & Peter Thomassen (both from deSEC)
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.1.0-beta1 Released
On this lovely day, we are releasing version 5.1.0-beta1 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. It contains many small new features and improvements over the previous 5.1.0-alpha1 release, as well as the unavoidab...
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-05 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server
Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.14 and 5.0.4 versions provide fixes for the following PowerDNS Security Advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-05: Multi...