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FOSDEM 2023 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2023 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After three earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms at FOSDEM 2018, 2019, and 2020, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2023. As with the previ...

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

We are proud to announce the second beta 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 Loggin...

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgr...

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

This is the release of version 4.7.2 of the Authoritative Server. Just one day after releasing version 4.7.1, we realised an important fix was missing from it. Specifically, AXFR clients (secondaries) can get ver...

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

This is the release of version 4.7.1 of the Authoritative Server. After 4.7.0 (quite recently) was released, we realised the SQL schema update files were missing. 4.7.1 corrects this. It also contains a few small...

PowerDNS @ Network X 2022

PowerDNS @ Network X 2022

This year, for the first time, Network X took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a new format, Network X combines the existing Broadband World Forum and 5G World events and brings together the fixed and mobi...

Authoritative Server 4.7.0

Authoritative Server 4.7.0

This is the release of version 4.7.0 of the Authoritative Server. 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were r...

First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

We are proud to announce the first beta 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...

First release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0

First release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0

This is the first release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. We hope it will also be the last 😊 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the fresh...

Structured Logging in PowerDNS Recursor

Structured Logging in PowerDNS Recursor

This is the fourth 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 ...