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Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016

We are pleased to announce the availability the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1. This release has two important improvements in the DNSSEC implementation: a better fallback to non-DNSSEC when dealing with old and ...

Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016

We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0. As expected, this beta has all kinds of unexciting changes and some bug fixes. As far as we know, ...

Pieter Lexis on May 11, 2016

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the Recursor follows today’s release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3. We inted to go beta with the Autoritative Server after this release so please te...

Pieter Lexis on May 10, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

Pieter Lexis on Apr 21, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the 1.0.0 version of dnsdist. dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top perform...

Pieter Lexis on Apr 14, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the first beta version of dnsdist, 1.0.0-beta1. We intend to release the final 1.0.0 version on April 21st, just in time for the UKNOF34 meeting. In addition to several b...

Pieter Lexis on Mar 09, 2016

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2. This release features many low-level performance fixes and restores forward-zones functionality. Changes from 4.0.0-alpha1 are: #3259, #...

Pieter Lexis on Feb 25, 2016

We’re pleased to announce the second alpha release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release is the first release to use OpenSSL for nearly all crypto-primitives (GOST is still provided by ...

Pieter Lexis on Dec 31, 2015

While the close of 2015 nears, we want to share some geeky stats over the past year. Let’s start with the company: number of new employees: 2. And the number of companies PowerDNS merged with: 1! As for the softw...

Pieter Lexis on Dec 24, 2015

Hi everybody! As recently announced, we have finished the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. We consciously set out to fix many things that had been waiting for years to be addre...