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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...
First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. 1.4.0 brings a much more scalable way of handling DNS over TCP and DNS over TLS connections since the first alpha release. A m...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3
Thanks to an overwhelming amount of testing by our fabulous user community, this release candidate contains a ton of bug fixes (and a few improvements) compared to the previous one. We hope this has shaken out al...