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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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Peter van Dijk on Aug 31, 2017
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is ...

dnsdist 1.2.0 released
Remi Gacogne on Aug 21, 2017
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.0, bringing a lot of new features and fixes since 1.1.0. This release also addresses two security issues of low severity, CVE-2016-7069 and CVE-2017...

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-...