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First Release Candidate for Authoritative 4.4.0
Hello! This is the first Release Candidate for version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. If no trouble surfaces, we will release the actual 4.4.0 within a few weeks. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please s...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.1 and 4.3.6 Released
Hello!, Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.1 and 4.3.6. These releases fix a bug where a reply from an authoritative server could get lost, causing timeouts or ServFail answers to clients. Additionally,...
Authoritative 4.4.0-beta1
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-beta1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting c...
Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha3
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha3 of the Authoritative Server. (A painful bug in the LMDB backend was found just as we started the Alpha 2 release process, so we decided to skip right on t...
Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0
Hello! We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the last release candidate, this release contains a fix for the cache pollution issue described in security advisory 2020-07. Pl...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.5, 4.2.5 and 4.1.18 Released
Hello!, Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.5, 4.2.5. and 4.1.18, containing a security fix for CVE-2020-25829: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor where a remote attacker can cause the cached r...
Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0
Hello! We are proud to announce the second release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the first release candidate, this release contains a few enhancements and fixes a few bugs. ...
Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha1
Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting ...
DNSDist 1.5.1 released
This release fixes a few issues discovered since 1.5.0: the thread handling responses sent from a backend was not stopped when that backend was removed ; getEDNSOptions() would throw an exception for queries with...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14
Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14, containing a fix for PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-05. Additionally, we are publishing PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06 t...