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PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Released
Otto Moerbeek on May 30, 2022
We are proud to announce the 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 of adding ...

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0
Otto Moerbeek on May 06, 2022
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Testing of this release candidate is much appreciated! The most important change compared to the 4.7.0-beta1 release is a fix for t...

dnsdist 1.7.1 released
Remi Gacogne on Apr 25, 2022
Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.0: A use-after-free error could happen if a network error occurred in the middle of a XFR query,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...