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Security Advisory 2023-02 for PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.6.5, ...
Otto Moerbeek on Mar 29, 2023
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Authoritative Server 4.8.0-alpha1 with Lightning Stream support
Peter van Dijk on Mar 21, 2023
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Third Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.
Remi Gacogne on Mar 16, 2023
We are very happy to release the third candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0!

Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0
Remi Gacogne on Mar 09, 2023
We are very happy to release the second candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains fixes for a few issues that were found in the first release candidate, the most important one being that ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.3 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Mar 07, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.3 This release is a maintenance release. The most important fixes concern the serve-stale functionality which could cause intermittent high CPU load. ...

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0
Remi Gacogne on Feb 23, 2023
Hello! We are very happy to release the first candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains a significant amount of changes since the last major release, 1.7.0, which was released a bit over ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 31, 2023
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.2. This release is a maintenance release, fixing some issues, in particular: Record and negative cache cleaning now maintains balance between shards i...

Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
Otto Moerbeek on Jan 20, 2023
Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.1 due to a high severity issue found. Please find the full text of the advisory below. The changelog is available. The tarball (signature) is available from our...

PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 19, 2022
This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor: Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot, Probing DoT Su...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Dec 12, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Logging has been i...