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Authoritative Server Database Schema Changes
Peter van Dijk on Apr 10, 2014
A heads-up for everybody running (git) snapshots of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server: earlier today we merged Pull #1327 from Kees Monshouwer. This merge deprecates the ‘old’ (pre-DNSSEC) schema for the gsql bac...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.3.1
Peter van Dijk on Dec 17, 2013
Warning Version 3.3.1 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. There are also some important changes if you are coming from 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2. Please refer to Section 1,...

Recursor 3.5.3 released
Peter van Dijk on Sep 17, 2013
Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a bugfix and performance update to 3.5.2. It brings serious performance improvements for dual stack users. Changes since 3.5....

Authoritative Server 3.3 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 05, 2013
Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validators, either through bugfixes ...

Authoritative Server 3.3 RC2 available!
Peter van Dijk on Jun 28, 2013
Downloads: source semi-static packages (rpm, deb, i386, amd64) native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validat...

Recursor 3.5.2 released
Peter van Dijk on Jun 07, 2013
Released June 7th, 2013 Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a stability and bugfix update to 3.5.1. It contains important fixes that improve operation for certai...

Auth 3.3 RC1 released
Peter van Dijk on May 28, 2013
Downloads: source semi-static packages (rpm, deb, i386, amd64) native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validat...

Recursor 3.5.1 released
Peter van Dijk on May 03, 2013
We’re happy to announce our first release from GitHub instead of SVN! This is a stability and bugfix update to 3.5. It contains important fixes that improve operation for certain domains. Changes since 3.5: We no...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!
Bert Hubert on Jul 22, 2011
Available from: * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-3.0.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.0-1_am...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!
Bert Hubert on Apr 05, 2011
I’m very proud to announce the first Release Candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0, now with full support for DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6 master/slave, per-zone metadata and Lua zone editing. The DNSSEC support ...