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First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 02, 2023
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0.

First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0
Otto Moerbeek on Apr 12, 2023
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0.

Security Advisory 2023-02 for PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.6.5, ...
Otto Moerbeek on Mar 29, 2023
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PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.3 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Mar 07, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.3 This release is a maintenance release. The most important fixes concern the serve-stale functionality which could cause intermittent high CPU load. ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 31, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2. This release is a maintenance release, fixing some issues, in particular: Record and negative cache cleaning now maintains balance between shards i...

Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 20, 2023
Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.1 due to a high severity issue found. Please find the full text of the advisory below. The changelog is available. The tarball (signature) is available from our...

PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 19, 2022
This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor: Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot, Probing DoT Su...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 12, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Logging has been i...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Nov 25, 2022
Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive....

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
Otto Moerbeek on Nov 18, 2022
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. We invite all users to test this release candidate, so that we can release the final PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 soon. Compared to the ...