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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, ...

Peter van Dijk on May 17, 2016

Released 17th of May 2016 This is a minor bugfix and performance release. Two contributions by Kees Monshouwer make 3.4.9 fully compatible with the new single key ECDSA default that is coming in version 4.0.0. Ch...

Pieter Lexis on May 11, 2016

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the Recursor follows today’s release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3. We inted to go beta with the Autoritative Server after this release so please te...

Pieter Lexis on Feb 25, 2016

We’re pleased to announce the second alpha release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release is the first release to use OpenSSL for nearly all crypto-primitives (GOST is still provided by ...

Peter van Dijk on Feb 03, 2016

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.8 of our Authoritative Server. This is a small bugfix release to 3.4.7. Additionally, the deb/RPM packages on downloads.powerdns.com (those with -static in the ...