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PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released

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

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released

These are security releases. The 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 (together with 4.1.9) releases fix the following security advisories: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-04 (CVE-2019-10162) PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-05 (CVE-...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.9 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.9 Released

This maintenance release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server has the following changes: by popular demand, the option to disable superslave support has been backported from 4.2.0 to 4.1.9 (#7922) pdnsutil b2b-mi...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor ro...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released

This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respecti...

dnsdist 1.4.0-beta1

dnsdist 1.4.0-beta1

We are very happy to announce the first beta release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version fixes a crash in the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) implementation and adds a new rule to route queries based on the incomi...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1

We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 1 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since the beta 1: #7818: Use net-snmp-config --netsnmp-agent-libs instead of --agent-lib...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released

This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so i...