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Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on May 04, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the first release candidate, and thanks to the great feedback w...

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First release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on Apr 20, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the third alpha: Add missing getEDNSOptions and getDO bindings f...

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Third Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on Mar 29, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the third alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains a few fixes for issues reported in the second alpha: DNS over HTTPS queries with a non-zero ID were not proper...

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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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Second Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on Mar 04, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains mostly fixes for issues reported in the first release candidate: A race condition was found to sometimes occu...

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First Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on Feb 02, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...

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DNSDist 1.5.1 released

Remi Gacogne on Oct 01, 2020

This release fixes a few issues discovered since 1.5.0: the thread handling responses sent from a backend was not stopped when that backend was removed ; getEDNSOptions() would throw an exception for queries with...

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DNSdist 1.5.0 delivers enhancements for DoH and better performance

Alexander ter Haar on Jul 31, 2020

Open-Xchange has launched the latest version of DNSdist – our unique DNS proxy and load balancer that optimizes the internet experience of hundreds of millions of internet subscribers.

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dnsdist 1.5.0 released

Remi Gacogne on Jul 30, 2020

After four release candidates, we are thrilled to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.5.0! This new release contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0, so please read the up...

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Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0

Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2020

While we expected the third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0 to be the last one, a race condition that could lead to a crash was discovered by Tomas Krizek from CZ.NIC with the DNS Shotgun tool, leading to a n...

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