Lease version 1.99.7 has been released (tagged at 1.99.7.20250831123527.772ce56e35). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Lease 1.99.7:

• RT1428: The packaging of Lease was updated. Lease is part of a source code tree with other components such as Loop and Border, and previously only Lease and Loop were packaged. Other components of the tree are also packaged now as part of a multi-package RPM spec file. The border-release package which installed the border-epel, border-epel-testing, border-fedora, and border-fedora-testing DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key has been replaced with the akira-release package which installs the akira-epel, akira-epel-testing, akira-fedora, and akira-fedora-testing DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key.
• RT1672: A minor syntax error was fixed in the Lease RPM's post-installation script (it did not cause an actual issue other than the error report).
• RT1613: All the programs of Loop and Lease were updated to use consistent command line options for version, verbosity, help, etc.
• RT1618: DNS names were added to the list of items in the data and privacy section of the Loop and Lease user manuals.

To upgrade from a previous release of Lease on an RPM platform, first remove the older border-release RPM:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf remove border-release

Then, install the akira-release package as described in the installation instructions. This will install the new DNF package repositories.

Then, upgrade the lease package, which should install it from the new DNF package repository:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade lease

You may clean up the old Border Package Signer key using clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf install clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey
[user@host ~]$ sudo clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey

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.