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PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.7 and 5.2.5 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 29, 2025
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.1.7 and 5.2.5. These releases are maintenance releases that fix a few bugs and have a few improvements. The most important ones are:

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0-beta1 Released
Erik Winkels on Jul 24, 2025
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0-beta1

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-beta1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 24, 2025
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-04
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 21, 2025
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.12, 5.1.6 and 5.2.4. These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2025-04: A Recursor configured to send out ECS enabled queries can be sensitive to spoofing attempts...

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...

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 09, 2025
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.7
Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2025
We couldn't help but notice, over the last few decades, that whenever there is a new PowerDNS software release, this is, by far, the major and most important news item of the day.

PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0-alpha1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 25, 2025
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.3.0!

First Alpha Release for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0.0
Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2025
Here at the secret PowerDNS Labs, we have been working very hard at growing new crops of DNS software (while pretending to grow tulips in order to remain unnoticed).

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.5
Peter van Dijk on May 07, 2025
Today, we are releasing a new version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This 4.9.5 version carries a few bug fixes, as well as a performance optimization in the LMDB backend which will greatly improve databas...