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Pieter Lexis on May 19, 2017

Today we are releasing the first release candidate of version 4.0.5 of the PowerDNS Recursor. The most import change is the addition of the KSK-2017, the new root key for DNSSEC, that will be used to sign the roo...

Bert Hubert on Feb 23, 2017

Hi everyone, In this message, we ask you to look at our intended PowerDNS Recursor 4.1 development plan. The 4.0 release train has been very successful and reliable for a major ‘.0’ release and is seeing wide pro...

Bert Hubert on Feb 07, 2017

Hi everyone, In this post, we want to mention a few things: PowerDNS Jobs, 4.1 plans & some DNSSEC research. First, PowerDNS is growing rapidly as more and more large scale service providers displace closed D...

Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017

Today, we are releasing version 3.4.11 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and version 3.7.4 of the PowerDNS Recursor. These releases fix several security issues that were reported to PowerDNS. It concerns the f...

Pieter Lexis on Jan 13, 2017

We are happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.4. This release fixes 2 security issues and adds several improvements to the DNSSEC validation code. The following PowerDNS Security Advis...

Pieter Lexis on Sep 06, 2016

A new release for the PowerDNS Recursor with version 4.0.3 is available. This release has many fixes and improvements in the Policy Engine (RPZ) and the Lua bindings to it. Therefore, we recommend users of RPZ to...

Pieter Lexis on Aug 26, 2016

Today, the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.2 is released. This version fixes several bugs, among which was a regression in 4.x where CNAME records for DNSSEC signed domains were not sorted before the final answers,...

Pieter Lexis on Jul 29, 2016

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.1. This release has several improvements with regards to DNSSEC validation and it improves interoperability with DNSSEC clients that expect...

Bert Hubert on Jul 11, 2016

Today a rather epic journey ends. In this post, we describe how 4.0.0 came to be, what we did, what we added, but also answer the big question: should I deploy PowerDNS 4? And enable DNSSEC validation? Finally.. ...

Pieter Lexis on Jul 11, 2016

We are pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0. As announced, the Recursor was part of the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. More about the 4.0.0 rel...