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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

Hello! We are very happy to release the first candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains a significant amount of changes since the last major release, 1.7.0, which was released a bit over ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2. This release is a maintenance release, fixing some issues, in particular: Record and negative cache cleaning now maintains balance between shards i...

Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.1 due to a high severity issue found. Please find the full text of the advisory below. The changelog is available. The tarball (signature) is available from our...

PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open

PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open

This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor: Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot, Probing DoT Su...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Logging has been i...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

Hello, Today we have released maintenance updates of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues. For more details on the other fixes, consult the changelogs avai...

Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available

Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available

DNS is one of the vital components of the internet, invisibly making the internet work for everyone for almost four decades. It needs to be rock-solid, in terms of reliability, performance and scalability. PowerD...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released

Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive....

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. We invite all users to test this release candidate, so that we can release the final PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 soon. Compared to the ...

PowerDNS Recursor: ZONEMD, the missing validation

PowerDNS Recursor: ZONEMD, the missing validation

This is the fifth part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor. The first blog post was Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The C...