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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0-alpha1 released
Pieter Lexis on Jul 18, 2017
We’re happy to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0. This release features all the improvements made to the 4.0 branch of the PowerDNS Recursor, as well as an improved DNSSEC validator t...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2017
This release features a fix for the ed25519 verifier. This verifier hashed the message before verifying, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on the Elliptic Curve front, support was added for ED448 (DNSSEC...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.4 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 23, 2017
Today we are releasing version 4.0.4 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release features a fix for the ed25519 signer. This signer hashed the message before signing, resulting in unverifiable signatures. ...

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.0.4 Release Candidate 1 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jun 13, 2017
Because 4.0.3 is 5 months ago, and a lot has happened since (see the long changelog below), we are doing a release candidate for release 4.0.4. The full changelog looks like this: Bug fixes #5346: configure.ac: c...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 13, 2017
Today we are releasing version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most important change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the root starting October 11th 2017...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 2 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 01, 2017
One and a half week after the release of Release Candidate 1 comes the second release candidate for the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.5. These are the two changes between RC1 and RC2: Added the use-incoming-edns-...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 1 released!
Pieter Lexis on May 19, 2017
Today we are releasing the first release candidate of version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most import change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the roo...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.3 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jan 17, 2017
Today we’ve released version 4.0.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release fixes an issue when using multiple backends, where one of the backends is the BIND backend. This regression was introduced in ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.2 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017
We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.2. This release fixes several security issues reported to us in the last few months, as well as a memory leak in the Postgresql back...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.11 and Recursor 3.7.4 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017
Today, we are releasing version 3.4.11 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and version 3.7.4 of the PowerDNS Recursor. These releases fix several security issues that were reported to PowerDNS. It concerns the f...