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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released
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...
Security Advisory 2022-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2, 4.5.3, 4...
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...
Super-Charge Your 5G Network by Moving DNS to the Edge
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...
First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0
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...
Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8
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...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0 Released
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...
PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell
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...
First release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
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...
Second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
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 ...
First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
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...