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Second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 25, 2021

We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the out...

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Second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Remi Gacogne on Oct 19, 2021

Hello! We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We spent quite some time since alpha1 reproducing an issue reported by Stéphane Bortzmeyer in our new outgoing DNS over TLS feature. The ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 11, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 08, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...

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First Alpha Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0

Peter van Dijk on Oct 07, 2021

Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROX...

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First Alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Otto Moerbeek on Sep 29, 2021

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains two major sets of changes: a rewrite of the ou...

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First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Remi Gacogne on Sep 23, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...

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dnsdist 1.6.1 released

Remi Gacogne on Sep 15, 2021

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.6.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.6.0: Adding ECS failed for queries with records in the answer or additional section (Dimitrios Mavromma...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5 and 4.5.5 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Jul 30, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5. and 4.5.5. Both releases contain an improvement to work around broken authoritative servers sending replies without the “authoritative answer” (AA)...

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security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0

Peter van Dijk on Jul 26, 2021

Hello, today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.1, fixing a remotely triggered crash present in version 4.5.0. No other versions are affected. Tarballs and signatures are available at https://down...

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