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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released

Since Spectre / Meltdown, system calls have become more expensive. In addition, relevant versions of glibc turn out to implement pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal in such a way that they use multiple syst...

Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0

Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0

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 operational impact when upgrading from 4.1.x. However, several new features have bee...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released

This release fixes a single issue: the PowerDNS API would accept more than one CNAME record for the same name attribute and would return 204 instead of refusing and returning a 4xx error. The changelog: #7279: Pr...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released

This release is only relevant when building PowerDNS Recursor from source with protobuf support disabled. Release 4.1.10 fixes a bug where the recursor would not build when one had protobuf support disabled. The ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released

We are very happy to announce the 4.1.9 release of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release is fixing two security issues, and addressing a shortcoming in the way incoming queries are distributed to threads under heav...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger

We’re proud to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2 series. While some users have already deployed this version straight from our package builders or master repositories, this ...

Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

Hello PowerDNS user, as the year draws to an end, we are preparing for the release of a new version of the Authoritative Server (and the Recursor – stay tuned for more news in that area). This release (4.2.0) wil...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8 Released

We’ve released PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8. This release fixes Security Advisory 2018-09 that we recently discovered, affecting PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.1.7. PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.x and belo...