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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
dnsdist 1.2.0 released
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.0, bringing a lot of new features and fixes since 1.1.0. This release also addresses two security issues of low severity, CVE-2016-7069 and CVE-2017...
OX Summit & other conferences
Hi everyone, As we are working on the 4.1 & 1.2 releases, please know you can also meet us in real life! We are just back from IETF in Prague, here is a list of other places where we will be present: August 4...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0-alpha1 released
We’re happy to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0. This release features all the improvements made to the 4.0 branch of the PowerDNS Recursor, as well as an improved DNSSEC validator t...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!
This release features a fix for the ed25519 verifier. This verifier hashed the message before verifying, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on the Elliptic Curve front, support was added for ED448 (DNSSEC...