FALCON-512 in PowerDNS
We are proud to introduce the first guest post on our blog! A team of researchers (listed below) has chosen PowerDNS as the basis for an implementation of post-quantum DNSSEC signing with the FALCON-512 algorithm...
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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released
Otto Moerbeek
on Apr 04, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an im...
Security Advisory 2022-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2, 4.5.3, 4...
Otto Moerbeek
on Mar 25, 2022
Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.3, 4.5.4 and 4.6.1, and PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.8, 4.5.8 and 4.6.1 due to a low severity issue found in both products. In the Authoritative server thi...
Super-Charge Your 5G Network by Moving DNS to the Edge
Neil Cook
on Mar 08, 2022
The number of 5G subscribers is expected to exceed 580 million by end of 2021, with 3.5 billion subscribers predicted in 2026, according to Ericsson's recent mobility report. This means that it is set to become t...
First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0
Otto Moerbeek
on Feb 28, 2022
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: ZONEMD validation...
Authoritative Server 4.7.0-alpha1
Peter van Dijk
on Feb 17, 2022
Hello! this is the first Alpha release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. It brings a couple of new features into the hands of our users early. New features: lmdbbackend databases now get a UUID assigned, making it ...
Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8
Peter van Dijk
on Feb 01, 2022
As you might be aware, CentOS 8 has reached End of Life on December 31st 2021. Furthermore, yesterday, CentOS 8 actually disappeared from the distribution mirrors. While we had made plans for this, we failed to e...
Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Peter van Dijk
on Jan 25, 2022
Hello! after a very useful beta/RC period in which we received some excellent bug reports, we released Authoritative Server version 4.6.0 today. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3
Peter van Dijk
on Jan 21, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.5.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the LMDB backend, and for the zone cache. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure t...
dnsdist 1.7.0 released
Remi Gacogne
on Jan 17, 2022
Hello! We are proud to announce the release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features since 1.6.1, as well as improvements and bug fixes. It contains one single change from the first r...