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PowerDNS Recursor Security Advisory 2024-01

PowerDNS Recursor Security Advisory 2024-01

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.6, 4.9.3 and 5.0.2. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2024-01: crafted DNSSEC records in a zone can lead to a denial of service in Recursor.

First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

We are excited to release the first release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! The latest addition to DNSdist is AF_XDP support. AF_XDP is a Linux feature optimized for high performance packet ...

PowerDNS supports the launch of 1&1’s 5G network

PowerDNS supports the launch of 1&1’s 5G network

At the end of last year, 1&1 announced the availability of its 5G network for mobile internet subscribers in Germany – this made 1&1 the fourth network provider in Germany, alongside Deutsche Telekom, Vod...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.0-alpha1

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.0-alpha1

This is release 4.9.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. It brings a few new features, and a collection of small improvements and fixes. Some internals have been reworked to support the new features. A detailed ...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.1 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.1! This is the first public release of the 5.0 branch. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this release features the ability to read settings from YAM...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.4. In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and ther...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc2 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc2 Released

We are proud to announce the second release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, p...

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 released

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 released

We are very happy to release PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.2:

Fourth alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Fourth alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

We are thrilled to release the fourth alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! The most exciting new feature in this latest alpha is support for DNS over HTTP/3! Like DNS over QUIC for which we a...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc1 Released

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, pr...