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Upcoming package removals
Pieter Lexis on Mar 26, 2021
As you may know, PowerDNS hosts RPM and Debian packages in our package repositories. Packages are available in binary form as RPM and Debian packages for various distributions. Some of these distributions are com...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7 Released
Pieter Lexis on Nov 09, 2018
Today we have released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7. It is an update to relax EDNS compliance requirements from upstream authoritative servers. Recursor version 4.1.5 (and, by extension, 4.1.6), contains a fix for...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6 Released
Pieter Lexis on Nov 07, 2018
We have just released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6. This release fixes an issue with DNSSEC validation introduced in Recursor 4.1.5 by reverting a code-change related to the acceptation of ADDITIONAL records. We w...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released
Pieter Lexis on Aug 31, 2018
We’ve just released PowerDNS Recursor version 4.1.4, this is a maintenance release with no major changes. One new setting was added, this is the max-udp-queries-per-round, which controls the maximum amount of mes...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0-alpha1 released
Pieter Lexis on Jul 18, 2017
We’re happy to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0. This release features all the improvements made to the 4.0 branch of the PowerDNS Recursor, as well as an improved DNSSEC validator t...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.4 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 23, 2017
Today we are releasing version 4.0.4 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release features a fix for the ed25519 signer. This signer hashed the message before signing, resulting in unverifiable signatures. ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 13, 2017
Today we are releasing version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most important change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the root starting October 11th 2017...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 2 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 01, 2017
One and a half week after the release of Release Candidate 1 comes the second release candidate for the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.5. These are the two changes between RC1 and RC2: Added the use-incoming-edns-...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 1 released!
Pieter Lexis on May 19, 2017
Today we are releasing the first release candidate of version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most import change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the roo...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.3 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jan 17, 2017
Today we’ve released version 4.0.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release fixes an issue when using multiple backends, where one of the backends is the BIND backend. This regression was introduced in ...