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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...

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...

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...

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: ...

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:...

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)...

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...

Erik Winkels on Dec 04, 2017

This is a major release containing significant speedups (both in throughput and latency), enhanced capabilities and a highly conformant and robust DNSSEC validation implementation that is ready for heavy producti...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 30, 2017

Version 4.1 is a major upgrade for the Authoritative Server, delivering improvements and speedups developed and tested over the past 12 months. Many large scale deployments have already migrated to this release b...

Peter van Dijk on Nov 27, 2017

Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...