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Authoritative Server 3.4.3 released
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...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released
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...

An introduction to PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0
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...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02
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...

Authoritative Server 3.4.1
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...

Recursor 3.6.2
Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2014
Note Version 3.6.2 is a bugfix update to 3.6.1. Released on the 30th of October 2014. Official download page A list of changes since 3.6.1 follows. commit ab14b4f: expedite servfail generation for ezdns-like fail...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.0 released
Peter van Dijk on Sep 30, 2014
Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2
Peter van Dijk on Sep 23, 2014
Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1
Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2014
Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

Recursor 3.6.0 released
Peter van Dijk on Jun 20, 2014
Note Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a performance, feature and bugfix update to 3.5/3.5.3. It contains important fixes for slightly broken domain names, whi...