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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1
Peter van Dijk on Nov 30, 2017
Version 4.1 is a major upgrade for the Authoritative Server, delivering improvements and speedups developed and tested over the past 12 months. Many large scale deployments have already migrated to this release b...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
Peter van Dijk on Nov 27, 2017
Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...
FOSDEM 2018 DNS devroom CfP!
Peter van Dijk on Nov 20, 2017
Hello DNS-enthusiasts and other developers, After two successful BoF sessions at FOSDEM 2016 and 2017, FOSDEM 2018 will see a real DNS devroom! We hope to host talks anywhere from hardcore protocol stuff, to prac...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Peter van Dijk on Nov 17, 2017
We present what should be our last release candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0: Release Candidate 3! If no major issues are found we expect to release the final version within the next two weeks. Th...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Erik Winkels on Nov 17, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC3 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test the previous Recursor release candidates. The third Release Candidate adds support for Botan 2.x (and removes support for B...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Peter van Dijk on Nov 03, 2017
Now that the Release Candidate 1 has simmered for a while, we present PowerDNS Authoritative Server Release Candidate 2! Thanks to everyone who tested RC1. This release has several performance improvements, stabi...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
Peter van Dijk on Nov 02, 2017
DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 30, 2017
Hot on the heels of RC1, PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC2 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test Recursor RC1. The second Release Candidate contains several correctness fixes for DNSSEC, mostly i...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 11, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC1 is here! The RC1 release features many fixes to the DNSSEC validation code, reported by different users. Other improvements include: logging, RPZ and the Remote Logger. While not speci...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Peter van Dijk on Aug 31, 2017
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is ...