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PowerDNS releases DNSdist 1.6.0

Alexander ter Haar on May 21, 2021

PowerDNS is pleased to announce the release of DNSdist 1.6.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art DNS-aware load balancer, which protects, balances and filters internet users’ DNS traffic in front of Power...

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dnsdist 1.6.0 released

Remi Gacogne on May 11, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.6.0, with no changes since the second release candidate. Compared to 1.5.x, this release contains several new exciting features, as well as improveme...

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dnsdist 1.5.2 released

Remi Gacogne on May 10, 2021

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.5.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.5.1: A typo in prometheus metrics dnsdist_frontend_tlshandshakefailures #9728 (AppliedPrivacy) A hang w...

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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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