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PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...

First Alpha Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

First Alpha Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROX...

First Alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

First Alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains two major sets of changes: a rewrite of the ou...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...

dnsdist 1.6.1 released

dnsdist 1.6.1 released

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.6.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.6.0: Adding ECS failed for queries with records in the answer or additional section (Dimitrios Mavromma...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5 and 4.5.5 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5 and 4.5.5 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5. and 4.5.5. Both releases contain an improvement to work around broken authoritative servers sending replies without the “authoritative answer” (AA)...

security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

Hello, today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.1, fixing a remotely triggered crash present in version 4.5.0. No other versions are affected. Tarballs and signatures are available at https://down...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

Hello! PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 was released today. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: The ‘zone cache’, which allows PowerDNS to keep a l...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2

Hello! Today we released the second, and hopefully last, Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notabl...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4. This release contains a fix to an issue where the answer to a non-existent DS query was missing a SOA record. In particular this can be a problem i...