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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 11, 2016
We are proud and happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release has a great number of new features and improvements compared to PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4. M...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jul 11, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0. As announced, the Recursor was part of the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. More about the 4.0.0 rel...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Release Candidate 2 released
Pieter Lexis on Jun 29, 2016
We’re pleased to announce the release of the first Release Candidate for the PowerDNS Authoritative server. This Release Candidate has the number 2. After rc1 was tagged in git, Kees Monshouwer discovered and cor...

Response Policy Zone support in PowerDNS Recursor
Remi Gacogne on Jun 28, 2016
Soon to be released, PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 includes a lot of exciting features. We have already blogged about some of them, but apart from a post on our mailing-list, the new Response Policy Zone support has no...

DNS: As we add more user-visible features, “open” becomes more important
Bert Hubert on Jun 13, 2016
DNS is an ancient protocol. Despite being invented in 1983, any software written at that time would still be compatible with the Domain Name System as it is used today.

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Pieter Lexis on Jun 09, 2016
We’re happy to announce the availability of the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release has the finishing touches to the experimental DNSSEC support by adding (Negative...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1 released
Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1. This release has two important improvements in the DNSSEC implementation: a better fallback to non-DNSSEC when dealing with old and ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Beta 1 released
Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0. As expected, this beta has all kinds of unexciting changes and some bug fixes. As far as we know, ...

Authoritative Server 3.4.9
Peter van Dijk on May 17, 2016
Released 17th of May 2016 This is a minor bugfix and performance release. Two contributions by Kees Monshouwer make 3.4.9 fully compatible with the new single key ECDSA default that is coming in version 4.0.0. Ch...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released
Pieter Lexis on May 11, 2016
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the Recursor follows today’s release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3. We inted to go beta with the Autoritative Server after this release so please te...