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First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 14, 2022

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.2

Peter van Dijk on Apr 12, 2022

Hello! Today we published release 4.6.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a carefully selected set of new features, plus a few bug fixes. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure to read ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 04, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an im...

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First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on Feb 28, 2022

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: ZONEMD validation...

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Authoritative Server 4.7.0-alpha1

Peter van Dijk on Feb 17, 2022

Hello! this is the first Alpha release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. It brings a couple of new features into the hands of our users early. New features: lmdbbackend databases now get a UUID assigned, making it ...

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Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Jan 25, 2022

Hello! after a very useful beta/RC period in which we received some excellent bug reports, we released Authoritative Server version 4.6.0 today. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3

Peter van Dijk on Jan 21, 2022

Hello! Today we published release 4.5.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the LMDB backend, and for the zone cache. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure t...

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dnsdist 1.7.0 released

Remi Gacogne on Jan 17, 2022

Hello! We are proud to announce the release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features since 1.6.1, as well as improvements and bug fixes. It contains one single change from the first r...

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First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Jan 14, 2022

Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are three notable new features: support for incomin...

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First release candidate of dnsdist 1.7.0

Remi Gacogne on Dec 22, 2021

Hello! We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.7.0, with only one fix and one improvement since the second beta. We fixed a crash introduced in 1.7.0-alpha1 that could o...

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