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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 1.99.15 is available

May 31, 2026

Loop version 1.99.15 has been released (tagged at 1.99.15.20260531075356.32922aefed). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Loop 1.99.15:

RT1951: Add Debian installation instructions to the user manuals
RT1939: Add test-compress unittest
RT1760: Use integer initializers
RT1936: Remove unused app code
RT1931: Add Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon to supported platforms
RT1932: Change log level of some named messages
RT1929: Fix Debian packaging errors
RT1930: Update socketmgr and timermgr thread names

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.