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Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released
Hello, Today we have released maintenance updates of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues. For more details on the other fixes, consult the changelogs avai...
Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available
DNS is one of the vital components of the internet, invisibly making the internet work for everyone for almost four decades. It needs to be rock-solid, in terms of reliability, performance and scalability. PowerD...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released
Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive....