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dnsdist 1.5.0 released
Remi Gacogne on Jul 30, 2020
After four release candidates, we are thrilled to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.5.0! This new release contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0, so please read the up...

Second Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 20, 2020
Hello!, We are proud to announce the second alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the first alpha release, this release mostly contains bug fixes and code cleanup. In particular...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.3 and 4.2.4 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 17, 2020
Hello!, Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.3 and 4.2.4. These releases fix an issue where the refresh time of a loaded RPZ zone was ignored. A DNSSEC issue that could lead to zones being marked Bogus wr...

Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Jul 07, 2020
While we expected the third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0 to be the last one, a race condition that could lead to a crash was discovered by Tomas Krizek from CZ.NIC with the DNS Shotgun tool, leading to a n...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.2, 4.2.3 and 4.1.17 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 01, 2020
Hello! Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.2, 4.2.3. and 4.1.17, containing a security fix for CVE-2020-14196: Access restriction bypass. An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor where the ACL applie...

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Jun 18, 2020
We are very happy to announce the third release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.1, 4.2.2 and 4.1.16 Released
Otto Moerbeek on May 19, 2020
Hello! Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.1, 4.2.2. and 4.1.16, containing security fixes for three CVEs: – CVE-2020-10995 – CVE-2020-12244 – CVE-2020-10030 The issues are: CVE-2020-10995: An issue in t...

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on May 13, 2020
We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. I...

First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0
Otto Moerbeek on Apr 22, 2020
Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. This release contains various bug fixes, improvements and new features. The most important new features are N...

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
Remi Gacogne on Apr 16, 2020
We are very happy to announce the first release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...