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PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-05 for DNSdist: Denial of service via craft...
Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2025
Today we have released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.11 and 2.0.1. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-05 for DNSdist, a denial of service via crafted DoH exchange. While working on adding mitigations again...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Aug 28, 2025
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0
Remi Gacogne on Aug 22, 2025
It’s finally here! Today, we are delighted to release PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 5.0.0. As you may remember from the previous test releases announcements, the main new feature of this release is the bi...

Simplifying Synchronization with Lightning Stream for Enterprise
Neil Cook on Jul 10, 2025
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
Andrea Carpani on Jan 27, 2025
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
Neil Cook on Sep 03, 2024
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...