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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...
First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Peter van Dijk on Jan 14, 2022
Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are three notable new features: support for incomin...
First release candidate of dnsdist 1.7.0
Remi Gacogne on Dec 22, 2021
Hello! We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.7.0, with only one fix and one improvement since the second beta. We fixed a crash introduced in 1.7.0-alpha1 that could o...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 17, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: The ability to flush records from...
PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell
Peter van Dijk on Dec 16, 2021
As you may have heard, a critical vulnerability in the Log4J library was published recently. We have received questions about our software’s vulnerability to these exploits. None of our open source products use J...
First Beta Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Peter van Dijk on Dec 09, 2021
Hello! Today we released the first Beta version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROXY...
First release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 03, 2021
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the beta2 release, this release fixes an issue with incoming queries over TCP and with the systemd unit file for virtua...
Second beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Remi Gacogne on Nov 29, 2021
Hello! We are happy to announce the second beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0, with few fixes since the first beta, the most important one being a memory leak when reusing TLS sessions for outgoing DNS over TLS and DN...