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Otto Moerbeek on Dec 08, 2025

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.9, 5.2.7 and 5.3.3. These releases fix two PowerDNS Security Advisories: 2025-07: Internal logic flaw in cache management can lead to a denial of service in Recursor 2...

Remi Gacogne on Dec 02, 2025

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 today, fixing several issues: the wrong reply address was used when using DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 on FreeBSD query rules were not processed after setting a tag from a d...

Robert Brandt on Nov 27, 2025

On October 31, 2000, PowerDNS.com B.V. was registered by our founder, former long-time colleague, and still dear friend Bert Hubert. A lot has happened since then. We’ve grown into a global company with engineeri...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 04, 2025

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After several earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce another half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2026. As with the previous events, we hope to ...

Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2025

Today, we are releasing PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.0.1. This release contains a few bug fixes and improvements, and one new feature for LMDB backend users.

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 22, 2025

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.8, 5.2.6 and 5.3.1. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-06: Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor:

Erik Winkels on Oct 15, 2025

Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Erik Winkels on Sep 24, 2025

Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2025

Today we have released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.11 and 2.0.1. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-05 for DNSdist, a denial of service via crafted DoH exchange. While working on adding mitigations again...

Otto Moerbeek on Aug 28, 2025

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!