Skip to content

Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha1 Released

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. This pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, processing and error-checking of settings.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.1 released

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.1 released

We are very happy to release DNSdist 1.8.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.0:

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.2

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.2

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.2. 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 4.7.6, 4.8.5 and 4.9.1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.6, 4.8.5 and 4.9.1 Released

Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.6, 4.8.5 and 4.9.1. These releases are maintenance releases that fix a few bugs. The most important ones are:

PowerDNS launches Lightning Stream for Cloud Control

PowerDNS launches Lightning Stream for Cloud Control

A few weeks ago, PowerDNS added Lightning Stream to the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. We are happy to announce that since then Lightning Stream is also available for our cloud-native deployment solution PowerDNS...

OpenWrt Repositories for DNSdist Now Available from PowerDNS

OpenWrt Repositories for DNSdist Now Available from PowerDNS

OpenWrt, the popular open-source GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers), enables users to fully customize and enhance their networking devices. One of the key strengths of OpenWr...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.1

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.1

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.1. 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 4.9.0 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0. Compared to the previous major (4.8) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes:

Introducing the new PowerDNS website

Introducing the new PowerDNS website

Dear powerdns.com visitors, The powerdns.com website, maintained and occasionally updated by the PowerDNS Engineering team, has always been our way to provide information and

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0.