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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...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.4 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017
We are happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.4. This release fixes 2 security issues and adds several improvements to the DNSSEC validation code. The following PowerDNS Security Advis...

dnsdist 1.1.0 released
Remi Gacogne on Dec 29, 2016
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.1.0. There have been very few changes since 1.1.0-beta2, the most significant ones being that we now handle header-only responses, and that “Refused” ...

dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 2 released
Remi Gacogne on Dec 14, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the second beta release of dnsdist 1.1.0. We fixed several bugs since beta 1, especially in the TCP area, and added a few new features: EDNS Client Subnet can be con...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.3 released
Pieter Lexis on Sep 06, 2016
A new release for the PowerDNS Recursor with version 4.0.3 is available. This release has many fixes and improvements in the Policy Engine (RPZ) and the Lua bindings to it. Therefore, we recommend users of RPZ to...

Authoritative Server 3.4.10
Peter van Dijk on Sep 02, 2016
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.10 of our Authoritative Server. This release fixes several bugs, decreases CPU usage and allows better interoperability with PowerDNS 4.0.X databases. It also a...

dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 1 released
Remi Gacogne on Sep 01, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of dnsdist 1.1.0. In addition to several bug-fixes and improvements, a lot of new features have been added since dnsdist 1.0.0, including but ...