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security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2
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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...