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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 04, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an im...

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Security Advisory 2022-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2, 4.5.3, 4...

Otto Moerbeek on Mar 25, 2022

Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.3, 4.5.4 and 4.6.1, and PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.8, 4.5.8 and 4.6.1 due to a low severity issue found in both products. In the Authoritative server thi...

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Super-Charge Your 5G Network by Moving DNS to the Edge

Neil Cook on Mar 08, 2022

The number of 5G subscribers is expected to exceed 580 million by end of 2021, with 3.5 billion subscribers predicted in 2026, according to Ericsson's recent mobility report. This means that it is set to become t...

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First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on Feb 28, 2022

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: ZONEMD validation...

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Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8

Peter van Dijk on Feb 01, 2022

As you might be aware, CentOS 8 has reached End of Life on December 31st 2021. Furthermore, yesterday, CentOS 8 actually disappeared from the distribution mirrors. While we had made plans for this, we failed to e...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Dec 17, 2021

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: The ability to flush records from...

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PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell

Peter van Dijk on Dec 16, 2021

As you may have heard, a critical vulnerability in the Log4J library was published recently. We have received questions about our software’s vulnerability to these exploits. None of our open source products use J...

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First release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Otto Moerbeek on Dec 03, 2021

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the beta2 release, this release fixes an issue with incoming queries over TCP and with the systemd unit file for virtua...

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Second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 17, 2021

We are proud to announce the second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: The ability to flush ...

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First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 09, 2021

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the outgo...

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