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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.2 and 4.9.12 Released
Today, we are releasing two new versions of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. These 4.9.12 and 5.0.2 versions contain minor bugfixes over the previous 4.9.11 and 5.0.1 versions, as well as a small new feature al...
PowerDNS Security Advisories 2025-07 and 2025-08
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.9, 5.2.7 and 5.3.3. These releases fix two PowerDNS Security Advisories: 2025-07: Internal logic flaw in cache management can lead to a denial of service in Recursor 2...
PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 Released
We released PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 today, fixing several issues: the wrong reply address was used when using DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 on FreeBSD query rules were not processed after setting a tag from a d...
Simplifying Synchronization with Lightning Stream for Enterprise
After continuous development of Lightning Stream for the PowerDNS community and the release of a Lightning Stream-schema for the PowerDNS Authoritative Server, we are excited to introduce our next product: Lightn...
Introducing simplified security with DNSdist Defender
DNS serves as the essential entry point into the connected, online world for nearly all internet-based activities. While it opens up a wealth of opportunities, it also introduces unique challenges. This is why op...
Cloud-native DNS filtering with Cloud Control 3.0
From very early on, PowerDNS recognized the benefits that a cloud-native DNS deployment provides to our customers. Just to name a few: a future-proof architecture, lowest cost operations, increased scalability, a...