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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 1.99.12 is available

April 30, 2026

Loop version 1.99.12 has been released (tagged at 1.99.12.20260429174723.026e1fc40c). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Loop 1.99.12:

  • RT1898: Return EDE for unsupported message opcodes and unsupported message class
  • RT1897: Use macros instead of option codes
  • RT1866: Add named support for draft-ietf-dnsop-structured-dns-error and draft-muks-dns-filtering
  • RT1876: Fix logging example in the Loop user manual
  • RT1875: Add missing cocci files to dist
  • RT1873: Update logging to include file and line numbers
  • RT1871: Update Vulkan manager log messages
  • RT1870: Fix configure.ac warnings
  • RT1869: Update main copyrights to 2026
  • RT1868: Rename macro
  • RT1863: Update Vulkan related named.conf(5) manpage options; add more Vulkan manager logging

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.