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Remi Gacogne on Feb 23, 2026

Today we released the first beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0. This new version brings new features and improvements since the first alpha: OpenTelemetry: add flags field in TRACEPARENT EDNS...

Remi Gacogne on Jan 29, 2026

Today we released the first alpha version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.1.0. This new version brings many new features: OpenTelemetry tracing support has been added Structured logging has been added A an...

Remi Gacogne on Dec 02, 2025

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 today, fixing several issues: the wrong reply address was used when using DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 on FreeBSD query rules were not processed after setting a tag from a d...

Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2025

Today we have released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.11 and 2.0.1. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-05 for DNSdist, a denial of service via crafted DoH exchange. While working on adding mitigations again...

Remi Gacogne on Aug 22, 2025

It’s finally here! Today, we are delighted to release PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.0.0. As you may remember from the previous test releases announcements, the main new feature of this release is the bi...

Remi Gacogne on Jul 17, 2025

Today we published the second release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

Remi Gacogne on Jul 08, 2025

Today we published the first release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2025

We couldn't help but notice, over the last few decades, that whenever there is a new PowerDNS software release, this is, by far, the major and most important news item of the day.

Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2025

Today we released the first beta version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.

Remi Gacogne on May 23, 2025

Today we released the second alpha version of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0.