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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC1

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...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-beta1

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...

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DNS cache snooping attack

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 ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-alpha1

Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha 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 ca...

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Upcoming package removals

Pieter Lexis on Mar 26, 2021

As you may know, PowerDNS hosts RPM and Debian packages in our package repositories. Packages are available in binary form as RPM and Debian packages for various distributions. Some of these distributions are com...

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Authoritative Server 4.3.2

Peter van Dijk on Mar 11, 2021

Hello, We are happy to announce version 4.3.2 of the Authoritative Server. This release fixes latency calculations to match the approach used in 4.4.0, to make comparisons between 4.3 and 4.4 more useful. It also...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.1

Peter van Dijk on Feb 08, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.1 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes several small issues discovered since the release of 4.4.0. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sur...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 18, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. As of now, versions 4.1.x and older are End Of Life. ...

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First Release Candidate for Authoritative 4.4.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2020

Hello! This is the first Release Candidate for version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. If no trouble surfaces, we will release the actual 4.4.0 within a few weeks. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please s...

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Authoritative 4.4.0-beta1

Peter van Dijk on Nov 23, 2020

Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-beta1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting c...

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