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First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 12, 2019
Hello! We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the third alpha release, this release enables QName-Minimization by default and introduces a less ...

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-alpha1
Peter van Dijk on Dec 10, 2019
Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible ch...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 09, 2019
This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.15 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 06, 2019
This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.1 Released
Peter van Dijk on Dec 02, 2019
This release fixes several bugs and makes a few features more robust or intuitive. It also contains a few performance improvements for API users. Please see the changelog for more details. The tarball (signature)...

Encrypt your DNS traffic with DNSdist 1.4.0
Alexander ter Haar on Nov 27, 2019
Open-Xchange is excited to announce the release of a new version of its DNS loadbalancer DNSdist. DNSdist is a unique DNS proxy and load balancer that brings out the best possible performance in any DNS deploymen...

dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Nov 20, 2019
After five release candidates, we are thrilled to finally announce the release of dnsdist 1.4.0 ! This new major version has been used in production by several large operators since the first release candidate, i...

dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released
Remi Gacogne on Oct 30, 2019
We are happy to announce the fifth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This release fixes a regression introduced in DNS over HTTPS handling in 1.4.0-rc4 that could lead to a crash under heavy load...

Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 29, 2019
We’re proud to announce the third alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Note that a second alpha was tagged, but never released due to an issue found. A few major features are introduced: The...

Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Oct 25, 2019
We are very happy to announce the fourth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. Unless a serious issue is discovered, we plan on releasing the final 1.4.0 release in a couple of weeks with no or very ...