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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...

Remi Gacogne on Jun 28, 2016

Soon to be released, PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 includes a lot of exciting features. We have already blogged about some of them, but apart from a post on our mailing-list, the new Response Policy Zone support has no...

Bert Hubert on Jun 13, 2016

DNS is an ancient protocol. Despite being invented in 1983, any software written at that time would still be compatible with the Domain Name System as it is used today.

Pieter Lexis on Jun 09, 2016

We’re happy to announce the availability of the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release has the finishing touches to the experimental DNSSEC support by adding (Negative...

Pieter Lexis on May 27, 2016

We are pleased to announce the availability the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1. This release has two important improvements in the DNSSEC implementation: a better fallback to non-DNSSEC when dealing with old and ...

Pieter Lexis on May 10, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

Pieter Lexis on Mar 09, 2016

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2. This release features many low-level performance fixes and restores forward-zones functionality. Changes from 4.0.0-alpha1 are: #3259, #...

Bert Hubert on Feb 17, 2016

Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could be exploit...