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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.

Akira platform version 1.99.21 is available

September 17, 2026

Akira platform version 1.99.21 has been released (tagged at 1.99.21.20260917025136.a817bb83d6). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

Web interface refinements

Related-object entries now show their parent category and sub-category alongside the object title. This makes related objects easier to identify when similarly named object types appear in different parts of the object hierarchy.

The page-header icon buttons now provide descriptive titles, making their purpose clearer when they are hovered or inspected by assistive tools.

Secure manager connection reliability

Reliability of secure WebSocket manager connections has been improved by correctly handling partial TLS writes. This is particularly important for larger manager responses and prevents an otherwise healthy remote nameserver connection from being dropped while data is being transferred.

Changes

  • Show the parent category and sub-category in Related objects entries. [RT2397]
  • Add descriptive titles to page-header buttons. [RT2396]
  • Fix partial TLS writes on secure WebSocket manager connections. [RT2395]
  • Expand browser-level regression coverage for creating nameservers. [RT2394]
  • Bump the Akira platform version to 1.99.21. [RT2390]

Some more development releases will be made from this branch until Akira 2.0 is ready to be branched.