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Third alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We’re proud to announce the third alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Note that a second alpha was tagged, but never released due to an issue found. A few major features are introduced: The...
First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced: A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemen...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Released
We’re proud to announce version 4.2.0 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little o...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 2 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since release candidate 1: #7955: Handle short reads from our random device #7953: Check...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released
This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respecti...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 1 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since the beta 1: #7818: Use net-snmp-config --netsnmp-agent-libs instead of --agent-lib...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released
This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-...
How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...
What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released
The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so i...