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Efficient & optional filtering of domains in Recursor 4.0.0
Bert Hubert on Jan 19, 2016
As we gear up for the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0, we are doing a series of posts describing new cool features which you can try out today. Many deployments are already running with 4.x alphas or snapshots...

Open Source Support: out in the open
Bert Hubert on Jan 18, 2016
As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve contribute...

Technical Preview Releases of Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist
Pieter Lexis on Dec 24, 2015
Hi everybody! As recently announced, we have finished the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. We consciously set out to fix many things that had been waiting for years to be addre...

Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released
Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2015
We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...

PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Peter van Dijk on May 26, 2015
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...

DNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet
Bert Hubert on May 21, 2015
PowerDNS and Dovecot joined the Open-Xchange family at WorldWostingDay 2015 in Rust

Recursor 3.7.2
Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.7.2 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...

Recursor 3.6.3
Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.6.3 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...

PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!
Bert Hubert on Feb 23, 2015
In this post, we’d like to share our current plans for .. PowerDNS 4.x! We shared this first with the PowerDNS-development community, and after we gathered feedback, we’re now announcing it more broadly. The tl;d...

New PowerDNS employee, the importance of testing RCs, skipping 3.7.0, World...
Bert Hubert on Feb 12, 2015
Hi everybody, Some assorted remarks & PowerDNS news: 1) New employee 2) Please test our release candidates 3) 3.7.0 has been skipped, all hail 3.7.1 4) World Hosting days in Germany New employee To start with...