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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.15 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 06, 2019
This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has...

Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 29, 2019
We’re proud to announce the third alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Note that a second alpha was tagged, but never released due to an issue found. A few major features are introduced: The...

First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 04, 2019
We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced: A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemen...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 15, 2019
We’re proud to announce version 4.2.0 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little o...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 25, 2019
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 2 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since release candidate 1: #7955: Handle short reads from our random device #7953: Check...