Akira release announcements & articles blog

This is the official blog of Akira. We are a computer networking software company. Here we publish release announcements and articles about the technology that we develop and use.

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 1.99.14 is available

May 21, 2026

Loop version 1.99.14 has been released (tagged at 1.99.14.20260521081756.d9d7a78607). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Loop 1.99.14:

  • RT1760: Rename taskmgr worker threads to "work-%hu"

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.