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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.9 released, fixing CVE-2025-30194
Remi Gacogne on Apr 29, 2025
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.9 today, an emergency release fixing a security issue tracked as CVE-2025-30194 where a remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS over HTTPS...

First alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Mar 18, 2025
Today we released the first alpha version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.8 released
Remi Gacogne on Dec 17, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.8 today, fixing several issues:

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.7 released
Remi Gacogne on Oct 04, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.7 today, fixing several issues:

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.4 released
Remi Gacogne on Sep 20, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.4 today, fixing a race condition in the handling of incoming DNS over TLS connections that can lead to a crash.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.6 released
Remi Gacogne on Jul 16, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.6 today, fixing minor bugs:

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.5 released
Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.5 today, fixing minor bugs:

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.4 released
Remi Gacogne on May 13, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.4 today. This release fixes CVE-2024-25581, a denial of service security issue affecting versions 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 only. Earlier versions are not affected.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.3 released
Remi Gacogne on Apr 05, 2024
Less than an hour after the release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 today, we received reports of DNSdist crashing in some setups. This 1.9.3 release fixes the issue that was introduced in 1.9.2, for now by reverting t...

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 released
Remi Gacogne on Apr 05, 2024
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 today. This release fixes several issues: