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PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Nov 08, 2023
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.2. This release is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs and contains a few improvements. The most important ones are:

Third alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0
Remi Gacogne on Oct 20, 2023
We are thrilled to release the third alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! Let's first address the elephant in the room: the second alpha was never released due to a last-minute issue discover...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 17, 2023
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared the the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, proc...

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2 released
Remi Gacogne on Oct 11, 2023
Today we have released DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2, with absolutely no changes with, respectively, 1.7.4 and 1.8.1, apart from the fact that our own DNSdist packages have been rebuilt against our own fork of libh2o i...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.3
Peter van Dijk on Oct 05, 2023
Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.3. 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...

First alpha release of DNSdist 1.9.0
Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2023
We are very happy to be releasing the first alpha release of what will become DNSdist 1.9.0!

PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-alpha1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 13, 2023
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 08, 2023
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
Peter van Dijk on Sep 07, 2023
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
Otto Moerbeek on Aug 25, 2023
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: