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PowerDNS supports the launch of 1&1’s 5G network

Neil Cook on Jan 26, 2024

At the end of last year, 1&1 announced the availability of its 5G network for mobile internet subscribers in Germany – this made 1&1 the fourth network provider in Germany, alongside Deutsche Telekom, Vod...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.9.0-alpha1

Peter van Dijk on Jan 12, 2024

This is release 4.9.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. It brings a few new features, and a collection of small improvements and fixes. Some internals have been reworked to support the new features. A detailed ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Jan 10, 2024

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.1! This is the first public release of the 5.0 branch. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this release features the ability to read settings from YAM...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.4

Peter van Dijk on Dec 21, 2023

Hello! This is the release of Authoritative Server 4.8.4. In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and ther...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc2 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Dec 20, 2023

We are proud to announce the second release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, p...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 released

Remi Gacogne on Dec 15, 2023

We are very happy to release PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.2:

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Fourth alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Dec 14, 2023

We are thrilled to release the fourth alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! The most exciting new feature in this latest alpha is support for DNS over HTTP/3! Like DNS over QUIC for which we a...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-rc1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Dec 06, 2023

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, pr...

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FOSDEM 2024 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

Peter van Dijk on Nov 16, 2023

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After four earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2024. As with the previous events, we hope to host talk...

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PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0-beta1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 10, 2023

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 5.0.0. Compared to the latest 4.9 release, this pre-release features the ability to read settings from YAML files, enhancing structure, process...

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