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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1
Erik Winkels on Dec 04, 2017
This is a major release containing significant speedups (both in throughput and latency), enhanced capabilities and a highly conformant and robust DNSSEC validation implementation that is ready for heavy producti...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
Peter van Dijk on Nov 27, 2017
Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
Erik Winkels on Nov 17, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC3 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test the previous Recursor release candidates. The third Release Candidate adds support for Botan 2.x (and removes support for B...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
Peter van Dijk on Nov 02, 2017
DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 30, 2017
Hot on the heels of RC1, PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC2 is here! We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us test Recursor RC1. The second Release Candidate contains several correctness fixes for DNSSEC, mostly i...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
Erik Winkels on Oct 11, 2017
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 RC1 is here! The RC1 release features many fixes to the DNSSEC validation code, reported by different users. Other improvements include: logging, RPZ and the Remote Logger. While not speci...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0-alpha1 released
Pieter Lexis on Jul 18, 2017
We’re happy to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0. This release features all the improvements made to the 4.0 branch of the PowerDNS Recursor, as well as an improved DNSSEC validator t...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2017
This release features a fix for the ed25519 verifier. This verifier hashed the message before verifying, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on the Elliptic Curve front, support was added for ED448 (DNSSEC...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 13, 2017
Today we are releasing version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most important change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the root starting October 11th 2017...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 2 released!
Pieter Lexis on Jun 01, 2017
One and a half week after the release of Release Candidate 1 comes the second release candidate for the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.5. These are the two changes between RC1 and RC2: Added the use-incoming-edns-...