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Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We’re proud to announce the third alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Note that a second alpha was tagged, but never released due to an issue found. A few major features are introduced: The...
Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the fourth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. Unless a serious issue is discovered, we plan on releasing the final 1.4.0 release in a couple of weeks with no or very ...
Backend removals in the upcoming Authoritative Server release
PowerDNS Authoritative server 4.2 supports over 15 different backends. While reviewing the existing backends we came to the conclusion that the sheer amount of them holds us back from developing the core of the A...
FOSDEM 2020 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation
Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and packed DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018 and 2019, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2020. As with the last years, we hope to ho...
Open-Xchange @ CCS Insight: 2020 & Beyond Predictions
Last week, the annual CCS Insight Predictions event took place in London, UK, and PowerDNS was right in the center of action providing know-how and solutions around DNS and 5G, DNS encryption and IoT security.
Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds the ability to accept DNS over HTTPS queries over HTTP, in order to be able to use...
Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience. There will be a notification about this for existing users, at which point they could choose...
First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced: A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemen...
Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds one experimental feature, the ability to look into a Key-Value store like CDB or LMDB and to route a q...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0
Hello everybody! We are very happy to announce the release of Authoritative Server 4.2.0. Besides a ton of bug fixes (please see the Changelog), this release also offers a nice collection of new features. This re...