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# Kea 1.9.2, November 25th 2020, Release Notes
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Welcome to Kea 1.9.2, the third monthly release of the new 1.9 development branch. As with any other development release, use this with caution. Development releases are not recommended for production use. This development release tackles an assortment of feature improvements and bug fixes.
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The most significant changes introduced in this version are:
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1. **New reservation mode parameters** #1405
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2. **Escape character codes are more portable, keactrl now runs on FreeBSD** #1424
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3. **GTEST_SHUFFLE** #1442
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4. **More explicit messages about missing dependencies** #1492
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5. **Some limits weren't logged properly showing nonsense characters instead of integers** #1495
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6. **Fix for lease4-update command in multi-threaded v4** #1542
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The full list of issues: #1405 #1424 #1442 #1453 #1457 #1467 #1474 #1492 #1495 #1496 #1516 #1542
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## Known Issues
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See https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/wikis/known-issues-list for details.
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## Release Model
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The Kea project has a significant production deployment base with users who are looking for stability, rather than a constant stream of new "bleeding-edge" features. At the same time, we want to continue developing the software and add some new powerful, but difficult-to-implement, features. To meet both of these requirements we have both Stable and Development branches.
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Stable releases are what you would expect: stable, released infrequently, without new features or significant changes, very well-tested. These can be identified by an even-numbered major version number. The current stable releases are 1.8.0, with an old stable version of 1.6.3. If we discover important bugs that require fixing, we may release additional maintenance versions on the 1.8 branch, but that will be determined on a case-by-case basis. The next major stable version will be 2.0.0.
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Development releases can be easily identified by an odd major version number: for example, 1.9.0 is a development release. We will continue our development work with 1.9.1, then 1.9.2, and so on.
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Our goal is to make the development release available on the last Wednesday of each month. There may be exceptions (such as during holidays), but that's the general plan.
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We encourage users to test the development releases and report back their findings.
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For more details on the plan, see ISC's Software Support Policy at https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896.
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## Kea overview
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Kea is a DHCP implementation developed by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. that features fully functional DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers, a dynamic DNS update daemon, a Control Agent (CA) that provides a REST API to control the DHCP and DNS update servers, an example shell client to connect to the CA, a daemon that is able to retrieve YANG configuration and updates from Sysrepo, and a DHCP performance-measurement tool. Both DHCP servers support server discovery, address assignment, renewal, rebinding, release, decline, information request, DNS updates, client classification, and host reservations. The DHCPv6 server also supports prefix delegation. Lease information is stored in a CSV file by default; it can optionally be stored in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Cassandra database instead. Host reservations can be stored in a configuration file, or in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Cassandra database. They can also be retrieved from a RADIUS server, although this functionality is somewhat limited. Kea DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 daemons provide support for YANG models, which are stored in a Sysrepo datastore and can be configured via the NETCONF protocol.
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This text references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Kea GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/issues.
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## License
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This version of Kea is released under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0
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The premium and subscriber-only hooks libraries are provided in source code form, under the terms of an End User License Agreement (you will get the source code that you can modify freely, but you are not permitted to redistribute it).
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## Download
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Pre-built ISC packages for current versions of the most popular Linux operating systems are available at:
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https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/
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The Kea source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded from:
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https://www.isc.org/download
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The signature was generated with the ISC code signing key which is available at:
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https://www.isc.org/pgpkey
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ISC provides detailed documentation, including installation instructions and usage tutorials, in the Kea Administrator Reference Manual. Documentation is included with the installation, at https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, or via https://kb.isc.org/docs/kea-administrator-reference-manual in HTML, plain text, or PDF formats. ISC maintains a public open source code tree, a wiki, an issue tracking system, milestone planning, and a roadmap at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea.
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Limitations and known issues with this release can be found at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/wikis/known-issues-list.
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We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for you and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your feedback on the Kea Users mailing list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users). Also we would like to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open tickets in the Kea GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions and errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if everything worked.
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## Support
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Professional support for Kea is available from ISC. We encourage all professional users to consider this option; Kea development and maintenance are funded with support subscriptions. For more information on ISC's Kea and DHCP software support see https://www.isc.org/support/.
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Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing list. Information on all public email lists is available at https://www.isc.org/community/mailing-list. If you have any comments or questions about working with Kea, please share them to the Kea Users List (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users). Bugs and feature requests may be submitted via GitLab at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/issues.
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## Changes
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The following summarizes changes and important upgrade notes since the previous release (1.9.1).
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```
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1829. [func] fdupont, razvan
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Added new configuration options reservations-global,
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reservations-in-subnet and reservations-out-of-pool to replace
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the old reservation-mode parameter. The new flags can be
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configured independently, adding support for new configuration
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scenarios when global and in subnet reservations are both
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active.
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(Gitlab #1405)
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1828. [bug] andrei
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Fix trivial logic error in handling the "lease4-update" command
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manifesting itself on v4 if multi-threading is enabled.
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Notable affected environment is a HA with the
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"send-lease-updates" configuration setting explicitly set to
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true. Prior to this fix, lease updates would not go through to
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other HA nodes, even though some log lines would say they would.
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A simple workaround prior to this fix is to disable
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multi-threading.
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(Gitlab #1542)
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1827. [build] andrei
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Add `tools/add-config-h.sh` script that can add
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`#include <config.h>` lines to non-generated source files that
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are missing it.
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(Gitlab #1453)
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```
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Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible.
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We look forward to receiving your feedback. |
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