Authoritative Server 4.7.0-beta2
Hello! this is the first Beta release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0, even though it is called beta2. (beta1 was never released because of bugs found during the release process). 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog ...
Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.3
Peter van Dijk
on Jul 13, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains two bug fixes, and marks the arrival of Ubuntu Jammy packages for the 4.6 branch. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.2
Peter van Dijk
on Apr 12, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a carefully selected set of new features, plus a few bug fixes. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure to read ...
FALCON-512 in PowerDNS
Peter van Dijk
on Apr 07, 2022
We are proud to introduce the first guest post on our blog! A team of researchers (listed below) has chosen PowerDNS as the basis for an implementation of post-quantum DNSSEC signing with the FALCON-512 algorithm...
Authoritative Server 4.7.0-alpha1
Peter van Dijk
on Feb 17, 2022
Hello! this is the first Alpha release for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. It brings a couple of new features into the hands of our users early. New features: lmdbbackend databases now get a UUID assigned, making it ...
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...
Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Peter van Dijk
on Jan 25, 2022
Hello! after a very useful beta/RC period in which we received some excellent bug reports, we released Authoritative Server version 4.6.0 today. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.3
Peter van Dijk
on Jan 21, 2022
Hello! Today we published release 4.5.3 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the LMDB backend, and for the zone cache. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure t...
First Release Candidate for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Peter van Dijk
on Jan 14, 2022
Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are three notable new features: support for incomin...
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...