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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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 15, 2019
We’re proud to announce version 4.2.0 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little o...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 25, 2019
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 2 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since release candidate 1: #7955: Handle short reads from our random device #7953: Check...