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dnsdist 1.3.2 released
Remi Gacogne on Jul 10, 2018
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.2 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing bugs and documentation issues reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.0. You might be w...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released
Peter van Dijk on May 24, 2018
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.1.3. This is a maintenance release addressing a performance issue in the GeoIP backend and fixes several other issues. The...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.3 Released
Remi Gacogne on May 22, 2018
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation, prevents metrics gathering from slowing down the processing of DNS queries and fixes an issue related to the cleaning of EDNS Client S...

Authoritative server 4.1.2 released
Peter van Dijk on May 08, 2018
This is the third release in the 4.1 train. Besides bug fixes, it contains some performance and usability improvements. Please find the most important changes below. For full details, visit the changelog. Improve...

dnsdist 1.3.0 released
Remi Gacogne on Mar 30, 2018
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.0 release of dnsdist, with a huge emphasis on privacy and scalability. Privacy A lot of users were interested in DNS over TLS support in dnsdist, to protect the privacy and i...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.2 Released
Erik Winkels on Mar 29, 2018
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation and fixes several issues related to EDNS Client Subnet. The full changelog looks like this: New Features #6344: Add FFI version of gett...

Authoritative server 4.1.1 released
Peter van Dijk on Feb 16, 2018
Released: 16th of Feburary 2018 This is the second release in the 4.1 train. This is a bug-fix only release, with fixes to the LDAP and MySQL backends, the pdnsutil tool, and PDNS internals. Changes since 4.1.1: ...

dnsdist 1.2.1 released
Remi Gacogne on Feb 16, 2018
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.1, fixing several issues that were found in 1.2.0: #5647: Make dnsdist dynamic truncate do right thing on TCP/IP #5686: Add missing QPSAction #5847:...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.1
Erik Winkels on Jan 22, 2018
This is the second release in the 4.1 train with a fix for the following DNSSEC security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2018-01: Correctly handle ancestor delegation NSEC{,3} for children (CVE-2018-1000003)...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 Released
Erik Winkels on Dec 11, 2017
Today we announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 which contains a fix for the following security advisory: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2017-08: Crafted CNAME answer can cause a denial of service (CVE-2...