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PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jul 11, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0. As announced, the Recursor was part of the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. More about the 4.0.0 rel...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Release Candidate 2 released
Pieter Lexis on Jun 29, 2016
We’re pleased to announce the release of the first Release Candidate for the PowerDNS Authoritative server. This Release Candidate has the number 2. After rc1 was tagged in git, Kees Monshouwer discovered and cor...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
Pieter Lexis on Jun 09, 2016
We’re happy to announce the availability of the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release has the finishing touches to the experimental DNSSEC support by adding (Negative...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1 released
Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1. This release has two important improvements in the DNSSEC implementation: a better fallback to non-DNSSEC when dealing with old and ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Beta 1 released
Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0. As expected, this beta has all kinds of unexciting changes and some bug fixes. As far as we know, ...

Authoritative Server 3.4.9
Peter van Dijk on May 17, 2016
Released 17th of May 2016 This is a minor bugfix and performance release. Two contributions by Kees Monshouwer make 3.4.9 fully compatible with the new single key ECDSA default that is coming in version 4.0.0. Ch...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released
Pieter Lexis on May 11, 2016
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the Recursor follows today’s release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 Alpha 3. We inted to go beta with the Autoritative Server after this release so please te...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released
Pieter Lexis on May 10, 2016
We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

dnsdist 1.0.0 released!
Pieter Lexis on Apr 21, 2016
We are pleased to announce the release of the 1.0.0 version of dnsdist. dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top perform...

dnsdist 1.0.0 Beta 1 released
Pieter Lexis on Apr 14, 2016
We are pleased to announce the release of the first beta version of dnsdist, 1.0.0-beta1. We intend to release the final 1.0.0 version on April 21st, just in time for the UKNOF34 meeting. In addition to several b...