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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0 Released

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

PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell

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

First Beta Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

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

First release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

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

Second beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0

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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.2 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes one issue: RFC2136/nsupdate: apply new TTL to whole RRset, not only to the added record Please find a full list in th...

Second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

We are proud to announce the second beta 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 ...

First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0

First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Hello! We are happy to announce the first beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We introduced a fair number of improvements and new features since the second alpha, and we will now iron out the documentation and fix any...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.2

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.2

Hello! Today we published release 4.5.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the bindbackend, and for SOA handling. These fixes are especially important for zone cache users. Plea...

First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

We are proud to announce the first beta 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: A rewrite of the outgo...