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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 ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.2 released
Pieter Lexis on Aug 26, 2016
Today, the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.2 is released. This version fixes several bugs, among which was a regression in 4.x where CNAME records for DNSSEC signed domains were not sorted before the final answers,...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.1 released
Pieter Lexis on Jul 29, 2016
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.1. This release has several improvements with regards to DNSSEC validation and it improves interoperability with DNSSEC clients that expect...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.1 released
Pieter Lexis on Jul 29, 2016
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.1. The first bugfix release for the 4.0 series. This release fixes several small issues and adds a setting to limit AXFR and IXFR sizes...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 11, 2016
We are proud and happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release has a great number of new features and improvements compared to PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4. M...