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Akira develops the Loop DNS implementation, the Dora DHCP implementation, and the Akira network management system. Our products are free for commercial and personal use. They are packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, and Azure Linux.

Border version 1.99.9 is available

February 15, 2026

Border version 1.99.9 has been released (tagged at 1.99.9.20260214065406.a608344ce2). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Border 1.99.9:

  • RT1813: Upgrade NPM dependency packages
  • RT1812: Add Debian and Ubuntu to supported platforms
  • RT1801: Fix warning about possible thread name buffer overflow (pthread_setname_np())
  • RT1799: Upgrade NPM dependency packages
  • RT1791: Upgrade NPM dependency packages
  • RT1755: Add Debian packaging
  • RT1747: Upgrade NPM dependency packages
  • RT1746: Fix user creation in RPM spec file for new RPM versions
  • RT1743: Disable parallel make in docs directories when using Sphinx
  • RT1740: Update list of supported platforms

Some more development releases will be made from this branch until Border 2.0 is ready to be branched. You can read about Border branches and version numbering.