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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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7 Released

Today we have released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.7. It is an update to relax EDNS compliance requirements from upstream authoritative servers. Recursor version 4.1.5 (and, by extension, 4.1.6), contains a fix for...

dnsdist 1.3.3 released

dnsdist 1.3.3 released

We are very happy to announce the 1.3.3 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing a security issue reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.2. Security fix While working ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6 Released

We have just released the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.6. This release fixes an issue with DNSSEC validation introduced in Recursor 4.1.5 by reverting a code-change related to the acceptation of ADDITIONAL records. We w...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4.1.5 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4....

We’ve released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4.1.5. These are security releases with additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Minimal patches for the releases are av...

PowerDNS Protect: what’s in the box?

PowerDNS Protect: what’s in the box?

We have recently launched PowerDNS Protect to help telcos and service providers keep their customers’ homes and families of safe. PowerDNS Protect secures home and mobile networks against malware and Internet of ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released

We’ve just released PowerDNS Recursor version 4.1.4, this is a maintenance release with no major changes. One new setting was added, this is the max-udp-queries-per-round, which controls the maximum amount of mes...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with ...