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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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Peter van Dijk on Nov 17, 2017
We present what should be our last release candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0: Release Candidate 3! If no major issues are found we expect to release the final version within the next two weeks. Th...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Erik Winkels on Nov 17, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC3 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test the previous Recursor release candidates. The third Release Candidate adds support for Botan 2.x (and removes support for B...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Peter van Dijk on Nov 03, 2017
Now that the Release Candidate 1 has simmered for a while, we present PowerDNS Authoritative Server Release Candidate 2! Thanks to everyone who tested RC1. This release has several performance improvements, stabi...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 30, 2017
Hot on the heels of RC1, PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC2 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test Recursor RC1. The second Release Candidate contains several correctness fixes for DNSSEC, mostly i...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 11, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC1 is here! The RC1 release features many fixes to the DNSSEC validation code, reported by different users. Other improvements include: logging, RPZ and the Remote Logger. While not speci...