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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.

Lease version 1.99.6 is available

August 11, 2025

Lease version 1.99.6 has been released (tagged at 1.99.6.20250811025749.965cadab44). This is the first public release of Lease. It is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Lease 1.99.6:

RT1606: Lease packages are now built. Lease is part of a source code tree with other components such as Loop, and previously only Loop was packaged. Other components of the tree are also packaged now as part of a multi-package RPM spec file.

To install Lease, please see its installation instructions.

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.