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FOSDEM 2024 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

Peter van Dijk on Nov 16, 2023

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After four earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2024. As with the previous events, we hope to host talk...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-beta1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 10, 2023

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, process...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.2 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 08, 2023

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.2. This release is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs and contains a few improvements. The most important ones are:

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Third alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Oct 20, 2023

We are thrilled to release the third alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! Let's first address the elephant in the room: the second alpha was never released due to a last-minute issue discover...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha2 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 17, 2023

We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared the the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, proc...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2 released

Remi Gacogne on Oct 11, 2023

Today we have released DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2, with absolutely no changes with, respectively, 1.7.4 and 1.8.1, apart from the fact that our own DNSdist packages have been rebuilt against our own fork of libh2o i...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.3

Peter van Dijk on Oct 05, 2023

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.3. In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and ther...

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First alpha release of DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2023

We are very happy to be releasing the first alpha release of what will become DNSdist 1.9.0!

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Sep 13, 2023

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. This pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, processing and error-checking of settings.

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.1 released

Remi Gacogne on Sep 08, 2023

We are very happy to release DNSdist 1.8.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.0:

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