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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released

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

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available

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

DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram

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

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available

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

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

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

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0-alpha1 released

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!

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!

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!

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Released!

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!

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.5 Release Candidate 2 released!

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-...