Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog

Pieter Lexis on Nov 03, 2015

We’re pleased announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.7. This release fixes several bugs and has a bunch of improvements onboard. The biggest fixes are improved negative caching and ...

Pieter Lexis on Aug 28, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.6. This release fixes some bugs and has several improvements. Tarballs and packages are available on: * https://downloads.pow...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.4 of our Authoritative Server. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-adviso...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.6.3 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...

Peter van Dijk on Mar 02, 2015

Warning: Version 3.4.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. Additionally, if you are coming from any 3.x version (including 3.3.1), there is a mandatory SQL schema...

Peter van Dijk on Feb 12, 2015

Released February 12th, 2015. Download page. This version contains a mix of speedups and improvements, the combined effect of which is vastly improved resilience against traffic spikes and malicious query overloa...

Bert Hubert on Jan 22, 2015

Today we released the first Release Candidate (RC) of PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0. And although we do document (almost) all of our features, documentation is not the same as effectively informing our users of what ou...

Bert Hubert on Dec 08, 2014

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02: PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.1 and earlier can be made to provide bad service Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02, which you can also find below. The g...

Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2014

Warning Version 3.4.1. of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. Additionally, if you are coming from any 3.x version (including 3.3.1), there is a mandatory SQL schema...