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dnsdist 1.4.0

dnsdist 1.4.0

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

dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released

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

Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

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

Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

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 ...

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds the ability to accept DNS over HTTPS queries over HTTP, in order to be able to use...

First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced: A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemen...

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds one experimental feature, the ability to look into a Key-Value store like CDB or LMDB and to route a q...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

Hello everybody! We are very happy to announce the release of Authoritative Server 4.2.0. Besides a ton of bug fixes (please see the Changelog), this release also offers a nice collection of new features. This re...

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. 1.4.0 brings a much more scalable way of handling DNS over TCP and DNS over TLS connections since the first alpha release. A m...