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First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

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

Authoritative Server 4.7.0-alpha1

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

Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8

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

Authoritative Server 4.6.0

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3

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

dnsdist 1.7.0 released

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

First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

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

First release candidate of dnsdist 1.7.0

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

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...