[Kea-users] Kea 2.0.1, a new stable production release of Kea, is now available

[Everett B. Fulton]

ISC's Kea team members are proud and happy to announce the release of 
Kea 2.0.1, the latest release in the current stable branch.

The latest releases from each branch are available via the ISC downloads
page:

    https://www.isc.org/download

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# Kea 2.0.1, Dec 15th 2021, Release Notes

Welcome to Kea 2.0.1, a maintenance release of the stable 2.0 branch.
Kea is a DHCP implementation developed by Internet Systems Consortium
(ISC) that features DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers with DNS update and a
RESTful API; optional database support (MySQL and PostgreSQL); optional
RADIUS, Kerberos, and Yang/NETCONF support; and much more. Kea provides
extensive management capabilities, including but not limited to: TLS
support, runtime configuration monitoring and updates via a RESTful API,
host reservations, client classification, and more.

The text below references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Kea
GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/issues.

If you are upgrading from the previous stable version, the following
deficiencies have been addressed since Kea 2.0.0:

1. **The GSS-TSIG hook** received many stability and error handling
improvements, bugfixes, and documentation updates, and is no longer
considered experimental [Gitlab #2228, #2122, #2173, #2175, #2177,
#2138, #2174, #2121, #2127, #2170, #2128, #2082, #2088, #2125, #2124,
#2129, #2113, #2089, #2056, #2120, #2095, #2092, #2109, #2114, #2115].

1. Debian 11 packages are now available.

## License
This version of Kea is released under the Mozilla Public License,
version 2.0.

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0

The premium and subscriber-only hooks libraries are provided under the
terms of an End User License Agreement.

## Download

Pre-built ISC packages for current versions of the most popular Linux
operating systems are available at:

    https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/

The Kea source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded from:

    https://www.isc.org/download

The signature was generated with the ISC code signing key, which is
available at:

    https://www.isc.org/pgpkey

ISC provides detailed documentation, including installation instructions
and usage tutorials, in the Kea Administrator Reference Manual.
Documentation is included with the installation or at
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html in HTML, plain text, or
PDF formats. ISC maintains a public open source code tree, wiki, issue
tracking system, milestone planner, and roadmap at
https://gitlab.isc.org//isc-projects/kea.

Limitations and known issues with this release can be found at
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/wikis/known-issues-list.

We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for
you and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your
feedback on the Kea Users mailing list
(https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users). We would also like
to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open
tickets in the Kea GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions and
errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if
everything worked.

## Support

Professional support for Kea is available from ISC. We encourage all
professional users to consider this option; Kea maintenance is funded
with support subscriptions. For more information on ISC's Kea and DHCP
software support see https://www.isc.org/support/.

Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing
list. Information on all public email lists is available at
https://www.isc.org/community/mailing-list. If you have any comments or
questions about working with Kea, please share them to the Kea Users
list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users). Bugs and
feature requests may be submitted via GitLab at
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/issues.

## Changes

The following summarizes changes and important upgrade notes since the
2.0.0 release.

```
1954.	[build]		razvan
	Library version numbers bumped for Kea 2.0.1 stable version.
	(Gitlab #2234)

1953.	[func]		razvan, fdupont
	Finish the GSS-TSIG hook library implementation.
	(Gitlab #2228, #2122, #2173, #2175, #2177, #2138, #2174, #2121,
	#2127, #2170, #2128, #2082, #2088, #2125, #2124, #2129, #2113,
	#2089, #2056, #2120, #2095, #2092, #2109, #2114, #2115)
```


Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release
possible.

We look forward to receiving your feedback.
-- 
Everett B. Fulton
ISC Support