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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!
Bert Hubert on Jul 22, 2011
Available from: * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-3.0.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.0-1_am...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!
Bert Hubert on Apr 05, 2011
I’m very proud to announce the first Release Candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0, now with full support for DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6 master/slave, per-zone metadata and Lua zone editing. The DNSSEC support ...

PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use
Bert Hubert on Jan 11, 2011
Dear PowerDNS Community, With the help of many of you, we’ve now brought ‘PowerDNSSEC’ to the point where it is in light production. Several of our important domains have already been migrated to the PowerDNS Aut...

PowerDNS Recursor additional Lua hooks for IPv6 DNS64 and Renumbering
Bert Hubert on Nov 14, 2010
Dear PowerDNS Community, The PowerDNS Recursor is currently being extended with additional Lua hooks and extra infrastructure to support flexible DNS64 operations, plus perform on-the-fly IPv4 or IPv6 renumbering...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!
Bert Hubert on Sep 23, 2010
Hi everybody, We’re proud to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.3! It can be downloaded from http://www.powerdns.com/ Version 3.3 fixes a number of small but persistent issues, rounds off our IPv6 %l...

Some notes on Solaris 10 x86, 64 bit compilation, bugs and memory allocator...
Bert Hubert on Aug 28, 2010
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time getting the PowerDNS Recursor to perform well on Solaris 10 on x86. Initially, I thought this could not be a lot of work since there are many happy Recursor user...

Better statistical regression tests: Release your inner German!
Bert Hubert on Jun 13, 2010
Hi everybody, The PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 release is holding up well for almost all users, but still some slight issues have crept up. One of the issues involved, where we needed to work around an artefact/issue/qu...

PowerDNSSEC Available For Testing!
Bert Hubert on Apr 22, 2010
Dear PowerDNS people, On http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/wiki/PDNSSEC you will find the newest version of PowerDNS with DNSSEC support built in. This version is tentatively called ‘PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 Release Candidate 1
Bert Hubert on Feb 10, 2010
Hi everybody, Please find below the release notes of the PowerDNS Recursor version 3.2, release candidate 1. RC1 is already deployed in a number of large places, and it appears to be holding up well. In addition,...

Critical PowerDNS Recursor Security Vulnerabilities: please upgrade ASAP to...
Bert Hubert on Jan 06, 2010
Dear PowerDNS Users, Two major vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in the PowerDNS Recursor (all versions up to and including 3.1.7.1). Over the past two weeks, these vulnerabilities have been addressed...