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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.

Lease version 1.99.8 is available

November 4, 2025

Lease version 1.99.8 has been released (tagged at 1.99.8.20251104005426.4e37e60402). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Lease 1.99.8:

RT1671: libevent and libzip deps are limited to just the border RPM package now.

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