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dnsdist 1.6.1 released
Remi Gacogne on Sep 15, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 30, 2021
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
Peter van Dijk on Jul 26, 2021
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
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2
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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC1
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-beta1
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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4 and 4.5.2 Released
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,...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-alpha1
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...