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security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC1

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-beta1

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

DNS cache snooping attack

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-alpha1

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

Upcoming package removals

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

Authoritative Server 4.3.2

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.1

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...