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Peter van Dijk on Jul 13, 2021

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...

Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2021

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...

Otto Moerbeek on Jul 02, 2021

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...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 25, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Beta version for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone cache. The zone cac...

Otto Moerbeek on Jun 09, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4. and 4.5.2. Both releases contain mostly smaller bug fixes. For the 4.5.2 release the default value of nsec3-max-iterations has been lowered to 150,...

Peter van Dijk on May 27, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone cache. The zone ca...

Alexander ter Haar on May 21, 2021

PowerDNS is pleased to announce the release of DNSdist 1.6.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art DNS-aware load balancer, which protects, balances and filters internet users’ DNS traffic in front of Power...

Remi Gacogne on May 11, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.6.0, with no changes since the second release candidate. Compared to 1.5.x, this release contains several new exciting features, as well as improveme...

Otto Moerbeek on May 11, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1. Compared to the release candidate, this release contains two bug fixes. Note that 4.5.0 was never released publicly, since an issue was found durin...