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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...

Pieter Lexis on May 10, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

Pieter Lexis on Apr 21, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the 1.0.0 version of dnsdist. dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top perform...

Pieter Lexis on Apr 14, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the first beta version of dnsdist, 1.0.0-beta1. We intend to release the final 1.0.0 version on April 21st, just in time for the UKNOF34 meeting. In addition to several b...

Pieter Lexis on Mar 09, 2016

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2. This release features many low-level performance fixes and restores forward-zones functionality. Changes from 4.0.0-alpha1 are: #3259, #...

Pieter Lexis on Feb 25, 2016

We’re pleased to announce the second alpha release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release is the first release to use OpenSSL for nearly all crypto-primitives (GOST is still provided by ...

Bert Hubert on Feb 23, 2016

Hi everybody, This is a heads-up on some announcements you will be seeing on powerdns.com relating to new PowerDNS products which (gasp) are not fully Open Source. We know this is a sensitive subject, so before w...

Bert Hubert on Feb 17, 2016

Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could be exploit...

Peter van Dijk on Feb 03, 2016

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.8 of our Authoritative Server. This is a small bugfix release to 3.4.7. Additionally, the deb/RPM packages on downloads.powerdns.com (those with -static in the ...

Bert Hubert on Feb 02, 2016

This is the third post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. I (Bert) have to admit something. Even though I set out to write a database driven nam...