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Pieter Lexis on Jan 17, 2017

Today we’ve released version 4.0.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release fixes an issue when using multiple backends, where one of the backends is the BIND backend. This regression was introduced in ...

Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.2. This release fixes several security issues reported to us in the last few months, as well as a memory leak in the Postgresql back...

Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017

Today, we are releasing version 3.4.11 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and version 3.7.4 of the PowerDNS Recursor. These releases fix several security issues that were reported to PowerDNS. It concerns the f...

Peter van Dijk on Sep 02, 2016

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.10 of our Authoritative Server. This release fixes several bugs, decreases CPU usage and allows better interoperability with PowerDNS 4.0.X databases. It also a...

Pieter Lexis on Jul 29, 2016

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.1. The first bugfix release for the 4.0 series. This release fixes several small issues and adds a setting to limit AXFR and IXFR sizes...

Bert Hubert on Jul 11, 2016

Today a rather epic journey ends. In this post, we describe how 4.0.0 came to be, what we did, what we added, but also answer the big question: should I deploy PowerDNS 4? And enable DNSSEC validation? Finally.. ...

Peter van Dijk on Jul 11, 2016

We are proud and happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release has a great number of new features and improvements compared to PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4. M...

Pieter Lexis on Jun 29, 2016

We’re pleased to announce the release of the first Release Candidate for the PowerDNS Authoritative server. This Release Candidate has the number 2. After rc1 was tagged in git, Kees Monshouwer discovered and cor...

Bert Hubert on Jun 13, 2016

DNS is an ancient protocol. Despite being invented in 1983, any software written at that time would still be compatible with the Domain Name System as it is used today.

Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016

We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0. As expected, this beta has all kinds of unexciting changes and some bug fixes. As far as we know, ...