[Pdns-announce] First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

[Otto Moerbeek]

Hello,

   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:
     * [1]Structured Logging has been implemented for almost all
       subsystems. This allows for improved (automated) analysis of
       logging information. We've posted a [2]blog about this feature
       recently.
     * Optional [3]Serve Stale functionality has been implemented,
       providing resilience against connectivity problems towards
       authoritative servers.
     * Optional [4]Record Locking has been implemented, providing an extra
       layer of protection against spoofing attempts at the price of
       reduced cache efficiency.
     * Internal tables used to track information about authoritative
       servers are now [5]shared instead of per-thread, resulting in
       better performance and lower memory usage.
     * EDNS padding of outgoing DoT queries has been implemented,
       providing better privacy protection.
     * Metrics have been added about the protobuf and dnstap logging
       [6]subsystems and the [7]rcodes received from authoritative
       servers.

   As always, there are also many smaller bug fixes and improvements,
   please refer to the [8]changelog for additional details. When upgrading
   do not forget to check the [9]upgrade guide. We are also announcing the
   removal of [10]XPF support. If you are using this feature, switch to
   the [11]proxy protocol. Please send us all feedback and issues you
   might have via the [12]mailing list, or in case of a bug,
   via [13]GitHub. The [14]tarball ([15]signature) is available from our
   download [16]server and packages for several distributions are
   available from our [17]repository. With the final 4.8 release, the
   4.5.x releases will be marked "End of Life" and the 4.6.x and 4.7.x
   releases will go into critical fixes only mode. Consult the EOL
   [18]policy for more details. We would also like to mention that with
   the 4.5 release we stopped supporting systems using 32-bit time. This
   includes many 32-bit Linux platforms. We are grateful to the PowerDNS
   community for the reporting of bugs, issues, feature requests, and
   especially to the submitters of fixes and implementations of features.

References

   1. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#structured-logging-backend
   2. https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/10/03/structured-logging-in-powerdns-recursor/
   3. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/internals.html#serve-stale
   4. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#record-cache-locked-ttl-perc
   5. https://blog.powerdns.com/2022/08/29/sharing-data-between-threads-in-powerdns-recursor/
   6. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/manpages/rec_control.1.html
   7. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/metrics.html#auth-xxx-answers
   8. https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.0-beta1
   9. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/upgrade.html
  10. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#xpf-allow-from
  11. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#proxy-protocol-from
  12. https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
  13. https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/new/choose
  14. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.8.0-beta1.tar.bz2
  15. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.8.0-beta1.tar.bz2.sig
  16. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/
  17. https://repo.powerdns.com/
  18. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/EOL.html

-Otto and the PowerDNS team

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kind regards,
Otto Moerbeek
PowerDNS Developer



Email: otto.moerbeek at open-xchange.com


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