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Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available

Alexander ter Haar on Dec 05, 2022

DNS is one of the vital components of the internet, invisibly making the internet work for everyone for almost four decades. It needs to be rock-solid, in terms of reliability, performance and scalability. PowerD...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 25, 2022

Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive....

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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 18, 2022

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. We invite all users to test this release candidate, so that we can release the final PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 soon. Compared to the ...

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Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Otto Moerbeek on Nov 07, 2022

We are proud to announce the second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Loggin...

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dnsdist 1.7.3 released

Peter van Dijk on Nov 02, 2022

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgr...

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Authoritative Server 4.7.2

Peter van Dijk on Nov 01, 2022

This is the release of version 4.7.2 of the Authoritative Server. Just one day after releasing version 4.7.1, we realised an important fix was missing from it. Specifically, AXFR clients (secondaries) can get ver...

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Authoritative Server 4.7.1

Peter van Dijk on Oct 31, 2022

This is the release of version 4.7.1 of the Authoritative Server. After 4.7.0 (quite recently) was released, we realised the SQL schema update files were missing. 4.7.1 corrects this. It also contains a few small...

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Authoritative Server 4.7.0

Peter van Dijk on Oct 20, 2022

This is the release of version 4.7.0 of the Authoritative Server. 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were r...

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First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Otto Moerbeek on Oct 05, 2022

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Logging...

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First release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0

Peter van Dijk on Oct 03, 2022

This is the first release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. We hope it will also be the last 😊 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the fresh...

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