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Authoritative Server 4.7.0
Peter van Dijk on Oct 20, 2022
This is the release of version 4.7.0 of the Authoritative Server. 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were r...

First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 05, 2022
We are proud to announce the first beta 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...

First release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0
Peter van Dijk on Oct 03, 2022
This is the first release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. We hope it will also be the last 😊 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the fresh...

First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 23, 2022
We are proud to announce the first alpha 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 Loggin...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.11, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 20, 2022
Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.11, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues and performance enhancements in the case Recursor is confronted with conne...

Authoritative Server 4.7.0-beta2
Peter van Dijk on Sep 13, 2022
Hello! this is the first Beta release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0, even though it is called beta2. (beta1 was never released because of bugs found during the release process). 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog ...

Security Advisory 2022-02 for PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, ...
Otto Moerbeek on Aug 23, 2022
Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.10, 4.6.3 and 4.7.2 due to a medium severity issue found. The security advisory only applies to Recursors running with protobuf logging enabled. Please find the...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.3
Peter van Dijk on Jul 13, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains two bug fixes, and marks the arrival of Ubuntu Jammy packages for the 4.6 branch. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 08, 2022
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1. This release is a maintenance releases correcting an issue where asynchronous tasks would not be executed promptly. It also allows the generic reco...

dnsdist-1.7.2 released
Remi Gacogne on Jun 14, 2022
Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.1: An unhandled exception could happen when an invalid protocol was used in an incoming DNS over...