[Pdns-announce] PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0 Released

[Otto Moerbeek]

   We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.0.

   Compared to the previous major (4.8) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this
   release contains the following major changes:

     * The performance impact of metrics collection has been reduced by
       using lock-free non-atomic thread-local counters.
     * The packet cache is sharded and shared by all threads.
     * The TTL of negative answers in the packet cache can now be
       controlled separately from positive and failure answers.
     * The rec_control trace_regex command writes the generated trace
       information to a specified file instead of the general log. The
       trace information contains more precise timestamps and DNSSEC
       validation information.
     * If extended-resolution-errors [1]is enabled EDNS errors are now
       generated in more cases, specifically when authoritative servers
       for a zone are unreachable or when synthesising answers by e.g.
       using the aggressive NSEC cache.
     * The aggressive NSEC cache has been changed not to store NSEC3
       entries which cover only a small fraction[2] of possible names.
       This also allows switching off the aggressive cache for NSEC3 only.
     * It is now possible to switch off root-refreshing[3] completely.
     * Proper handling of security policies that restrict [4]the use of
       specific DNSSEC algorithms on RHEL9 derived systems.

   As a follow-up to the shared packet cache, the default way the recursor
   distributes requests over worker threads has now been changed to let
   the operating system kernel do that, by changing the defaults
   of pdns-distributes-queries[5] to no and reuseport[6] to yes. Though
   our testing has shown benefits to this approach, we have seen that in
   some cases (depending on OS and client traffic patterns) this can have
   negative consequences: the queries are not distributed equally over the
   worker threads. See the performance[7] section of the online docs for
   details in how to diagnose and remedy this imbalance.

   As always, there are also many smaller bug fixes and improvements,
   please refer to the changelog[8] for additional details. When upgrading
   do not forget to check the upgrade guide.[9]

   Please send us all feedback and issues you might have via the mailing
   list[10], or in case of a bug, via GitHub[11].

   The tarball[12] (signature[13]) is available from our
   download server[14] and packages for several distributions are
   available from our repository[15].

   With this final 4.9.0 release, the 4.6.x releases will be EOL and the
   4.7.x and 4.8.x releases will go into critical fixes only mode. Consult
   the EOL policy[16] 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#extended-resolution-errors
   2. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#aggressive-cache-min-nsec3-hit-ratio
   3. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#hint-file
   4. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#dnssec-disabled-algorithms
   5. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#pdns-distributes-queries
   6. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#reuseport
   7. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/performance.html
   8. https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.9.html#change-4.9.0
   9. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/upgrade.html
  10. https://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
  11. https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/issues/new/choose
  12. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.9.0.tar.bz2
  13. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-4.9.0.tar.bz2.sig
  14. https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/
  15. https://repo.powerdns.com/
  16. https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/appendices/EOL.html


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kind regards,
Otto Moerbeek
PowerDNS Developer



Email: otto.moerbeek at open-xchange.com


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