Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

Security Notice for PowerDNS+Postgres Users

Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2019

Hello, Last Tuesday we published PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-06, which called for a schema update if you are using PostgreSQL with the Authoritative Server. We have now released updated packages for the 4.0.x...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.9 Released

Peter van Dijk on Jun 18, 2019

This maintenance release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server has the following changes: by popular demand, the option to disable superslave support has been backported from 4.2.0 to 4.1.9 (#7922) pdnsutil b2b-mi...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

Peter van Dijk on Jun 14, 2019

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor ro...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 22, 2019

This release contains a bunch of backports, improvements and bug fixes that we wanted in the 4.1.x release channel after the 4.1.7 security release was out of the door. Please see the changelog for full details: ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 19, 2019

This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by t...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 18, 2019

These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 28, 2019

It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...

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Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0

Peter van Dijk on Feb 01, 2019

The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little operational impact when upgrading from 4.1.x. However, several new features have bee...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released

Peter van Dijk on Jan 31, 2019

This release fixes a single issue: the PowerDNS API would accept more than one CNAME record for the same name attribute and would return 204 instead of refusing and returning a 4xx error. The changelog: #7279: Pr...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger

Peter van Dijk on Dec 14, 2018

We’re proud to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2 series. While some users have already deployed this version straight from our package builders or master repositories, this ...

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