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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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First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Otto Moerbeek on Sep 23, 2022

We are proud to announce the first alpha 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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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.11, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Sep 20, 2022

Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.11, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues and performance enhancements in the case Recursor is confronted with conne...

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Authoritative Server 4.7.0-beta2

Peter van Dijk on Sep 13, 2022

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 ...

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Security Advisory 2022-02 for PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, ...

Otto Moerbeek on Aug 23, 2022

Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.10, 4.6.3 and 4.7.2 due to a medium severity issue found. The security advisory only applies to Recursors running with protobuf logging enabled. Please find the...

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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 ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Jul 08, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1. This release is a maintenance releases correcting an issue where asynchronous tasks would not be executed promptly. It also allows the generic reco...

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dnsdist-1.7.2 released

Remi Gacogne on Jun 14, 2022

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.1: An unhandled exception could happen when an invalid protocol was used in an incoming DNS over...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Released

Otto Moerbeek on May 30, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way of adding ...

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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on May 06, 2022

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Testing of this release candidate is much appreciated! The most important change compared to the 4.7.0-beta1 release is a fix for t...

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