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Peter van Dijk on Dec 16, 2021

As you may have heard, a critical vulnerability in the Log4J library was published recently. We have received questions about our software’s vulnerability to these exploits. None of our open source products use J...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 25, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.2 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes one issue: RFC2136/nsupdate: apply new TTL to whole RRset, not only to the added record Please find a full list in th...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 10, 2021

Hello! Today we published release 4.5.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the bindbackend, and for SOA handling. These fixes are especially important for zone cache users. Plea...

Peter van Dijk on Oct 07, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROX...

Peter van Dijk on Jul 26, 2021

Hello, today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.1, fixing a remotely triggered crash present in version 4.5.0. No other versions are affected. Tarballs and signatures are available at https://down...

Peter van Dijk on Jul 13, 2021

Hello! PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 was released today. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: The ‘zone cache’, which allows PowerDNS to keep a l...

Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2021

Hello! Today we released the second, and hopefully last, Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notabl...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 25, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Beta version for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone cache. The zone cac...

Remi Gacogne on Jun 01, 2021

We have been getting questions about “DNS Server Cache Snooping Remote Information Disclosure” attacks lately, mostly coming from reports generated by one very popular security scanner: DNS Server Cache Snooping ...