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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.

Dora version 1.99.16 is available

June 10, 2026

Dora version 1.99.16 has been released (tagged at 1.99.16.20260609085933.dc88059a59). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Dora 1.99.16:

  • RT1985: Move to akira.org
  • RT1977: Add build.sh
  • RT1975: Fix warning about non-existent generated document when making manpages
  • RT1973: Make various changes to the PDF formatting
  • RT1974: Update software licenses

Dora has been moved to a new DNS domain named akira.org. To upgrade from a previous release of Dora on an RPM platform, first remove the older akira-release RPM:

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

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

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

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade dora

You may clean up any old Akira Package Signer keys 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 Dora 2.0 is ready to be branched. You can read about Dora branches and version numbering.