Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.1

Peter van Dijk on Feb 08, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.1 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes several small issues discovered since the release of 4.4.0. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sur...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 18, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. As of now, versions 4.1.x and older are End Of Life. ...

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First Release Candidate for Authoritative 4.4.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2020

Hello! This is the first Release Candidate for version 4.4.0 of the Authoritative Server. If no trouble surfaces, we will release the actual 4.4.0 within a few weeks. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please s...

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Authoritative 4.4.0-beta1

Peter van Dijk on Nov 23, 2020

Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-beta1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting c...

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PowerDNS Recursor and the SAD DNS attack

Peter van Dijk on Nov 17, 2020

Short version: the PowerDNS Recursor already implements mitigations to the SAD DNS attack. However, our users will likely be vulnerable to the most complex variant of the attack, which exploits kernel behaviour. ...

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Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha3

Peter van Dijk on Nov 05, 2020

Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha3 of the Authoritative Server. (A painful bug in the LMDB backend was found just as we started the Alpha 2 release process, so we decided to skip right on t...

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Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha1

Peter van Dijk on Oct 01, 2020

Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14

Peter van Dijk on Sep 22, 2020

Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 4.3.1, 4.2.3 and 4.1.14, containing a fix for PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-05. Additionally, we are publishing PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06 t...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.2 Released

Peter van Dijk on Apr 09, 2020

This release fixes issues in the IXFR receive code, improves cache management, and corrects a few other small things. If you use IXFR, please read the upgrade notes carefully. Please see the changelog for more de...

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PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0

Peter van Dijk on Apr 07, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.3.0. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible changes for users. If you read the upgrade notes for a beta or RC, plea...

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