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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.

Loop version 1.99.11 is available

March 13, 2026

Loop version 1.99.11 has been released (tagged at 1.99.11.20260302081434.1cfd6e70ac). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Loop 1.99.11:

  • RT1806: Add Vulkan manager thread to named and related named.conf(5) options
  • RT1854: Refactor jumps in cache lookups
  • RT1849: Fix segfault in dnsperf
  • RT1840: Fix release notes text
  • RT1838: Update RFC notes of RFC 9276
  • RT1836: Fix incorrect buffer size in debit_log()

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