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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released
Erik Winkels on Jun 21, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Jun 18, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Jun 14, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on Jun 13, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Jun 06, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on May 23, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on May 21, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on May 07, 2019
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...

dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support
Remi Gacogne on Apr 26, 2019
We are very happy to announce the second alpha release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version keeps up the DNS privacy improvements with the addition of a new major feature, DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and conta...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Apr 12, 2019
We are very happy to announce the 1.4.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains a few new features, but is mostly focused on DNS privacy improvements. We are introducing a new, much more scalable way of...