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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.

Dora version 1.99.15 is available

May 31, 2026

Dora 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 Dora 1.99.15:

  • RT1951: Add Debian installation instructions to the user manuals
  • RT1941: Rename Lease to Dora
  • RT1760: Remove dhclient program
  • RT1937: Make DHCP programs log using the Loop log module
  • RT1940: Use the internal global app context in liblease
  • RT1760: Use integer initializers
  • RT1760: Remove incorrect text from dhcpd.conf(5) manpage
  • RT1931: Add Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon to supported platforms
  • RT1929: Fix Debian packaging errors

A lot of code cleanup and refactoring was done in this release. More to come.

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