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First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the 1.4.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains a few new features, but is mostly focused on DNS privacy improvements. We are introducing a new, much more scalable way of...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released

We are very happy to announce the 4.1.9 release of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release is fixing two security issues, and addressing a shortcoming in the way incoming queries are distributed to threads under heav...

dnsdist 1.3.3 released

dnsdist 1.3.3 released

We are very happy to announce the 1.3.3 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing a security issue reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.2. Security fix While working ...

dnsdist 1.3.2 released

dnsdist 1.3.2 released

We are very happy to announce the 1.3.2 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing bugs and documentation issues reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.0. You might be w...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.3 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.3 Released

This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation, prevents metrics gathering from slowing down the processing of DNS queries and fixes an issue related to the cleaning of EDNS Client S...

dnsdist 1.3.0 released

dnsdist 1.3.0 released

We are very happy to announce the 1.3.0 release of dnsdist, with a huge emphasis on privacy and scalability. Privacy A lot of users were interested in DNS over TLS support in dnsdist, to protect the privacy and i...

dnsdist 1.2.1 released

dnsdist 1.2.1 released

We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.1, fixing several issues that were found in 1.2.0: #5647: Make dnsdist dynamic truncate do right thing on TCP/IP #5686: Add missing QPSAction #5847:...

dnsdist 1.2.0 released

dnsdist 1.2.0 released

We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.0, bringing a lot of new features and fixes since 1.1.0. This release also addresses two security issues of low severity, CVE-2016-7069 and CVE-2017...

dnsdist 1.1.0 released

dnsdist 1.1.0 released

We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.1.0. There have been very few changes since 1.1.0-beta2, the most significant ones being that we now handle header-only responses, and that “Refused” ...

dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 2 released

dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 2 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of the second beta release of dnsdist 1.1.0. We fixed several bugs since beta 1, especially in the TCP area, and added a few new features: EDNS Client Subnet can be con...