We aim to have a release every six months. The latest release receives correctness, stability and security updates. The two releases before that get critical updates only.
Older releases are marked end of life and receive no updates at all. Pre-releases do not receive immediate security updates.
The currently supported release train of the PowerDNS Recursor is 4.9.
PowerDNS Recursor 4.8 will only receive critical updates and will be end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.11 or 5.1 is released.
PowerDNS Recursor 4.7 will only receive critical updates and will be end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.10 or 5.0 is released.
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0 through 4.6, 3.x, and 2.x are End of Life.
Note: Users with a commercial agreement with PowerDNS.COM BV or Open-Xchange can receive extended support for releases which are End Of Life. If you are such a user, these EOL statements do not apply to you. Please refer to the commercial support commitment for details.
| Version | Release date | Critical-Only updates | End of Life |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | June 30 2023 | ~ December 2023 | ~ December 2024 |
| 4.8 | December 12 2022 | June 30 2023 | ~ June 2024 |
| 4.7 | May 30 2022 | December 12 2022 | ~ December 2023 |
| 4.6 | December 17 2021 | May 30 2022 | EOL June 30 2023 |
| 4.5 | May 11 2021 | December 17 2021 | EOL December 12 2022 |
| 4.4 | October 19 2020 | May 11 2021 | EOL May 30 2022 |
| 4.3 | March 3 2020 | October 19 2020 | EOL December 17 2021 |
| 4.2 | July 16 2019 | October 19 2020 | EOL May 11 2021 |
| 4.1 | December 4 2017 | March 3 2020 | EOL October 19 2020 |
| 4.0 and older | EOL | EOL | EOL |
Note we did not have a very regular release schedule in the past, so the dates for older releases do not follow the pattern described above.