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First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
Otto Moerbeek on Nov 09, 2021
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the outgo...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.7 and 4.5.7 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Nov 05, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.7. and 4.5.7. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a DS record with a SHA-256 digest could be ignored if a DS record with ...

Second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 25, 2021
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the out...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 11, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 08, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...

First Alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 29, 2021
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains two major sets of changes: a rewrite of the ou...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5 and 4.5.5 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 30, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5. and 4.5.5. Both releases contain an improvement to work around broken authoritative servers sending replies without the “authoritative answer” (AA)...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 02, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4. This release contains a fix to an issue where the answer to a non-existent DS query was missing a SOA record. In particular this can be a problem i...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4 and 4.5.2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 09, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4. and 4.5.2. Both releases contain mostly smaller bug fixes. For the 4.5.2 release the default value of nsec3-max-iterations has been lowered to 150,...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on May 11, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1. Compared to the release candidate, this release contains two bug fixes. Note that 4.5.0 was never released publicly, since an issue was found durin...