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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 ...

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Sep 30, 2019
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
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 04, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 02, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Aug 30, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Aug 12, 2019
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3
Peter van Dijk on Aug 09, 2019
Thanks to an overwhelming amount of testing by our fabulous user community, this release candidate contains a ton of bug fixes (and a few improvements) compared to the previous one. We hope this has shaken out al...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.13 Released
Peter van Dijk on Aug 08, 2019
The 4.1.12 release was skipped due to a packaging issue. This is a bugfix release for high traffic setups using the pipebackend or remotebackend. It contains the following changes: gpgsqlbackend: add missing sche...