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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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Jun 18, 2020
We are very happy to announce the third release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on May 13, 2020
We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. I...

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Apr 16, 2020
We are very happy to announce the first release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Mar 20, 2020
We are very happy to announce the 1.5.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains several new exciting features detailed below, but also a few breaking changes so please take the time to read the next sec...

BT starts DoH trial with DNSdist
Neil Cook on Mar 19, 2020
It is very likely that you heard and read a lot about the importance of DNS encryption in the last few months. Open-Xchange emphasizes the importance of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT), as well as the...