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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released
Erik Winkels on Jan 24, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Jan 21, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Dec 14, 2018
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
Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2018
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
Erik Winkels on Nov 26, 2018
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
Pieter Lexis on Nov 09, 2018
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
Remi Gacogne on Nov 08, 2018
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
Pieter Lexis on Nov 07, 2018
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....
Erik Winkels on Nov 06, 2018
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?
Neil Cook on Oct 10, 2018
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 ...