[Kea-users] Kea 2.0.0, a new stable production release of Kea, is now available

[Michael McNally]

Hello Kea-users subscribers:

Usually we don't duplicate posts that are sent to the kea-announce list on kea-users
but the debut of a new stable release branch doesn't occur that often so we hope you'll
forgive us this time.  We'll go back to our usual practice of confining the announcements
to the announcement list as the new branch progresses, but just in case anyone here is
NOT also subscribed to that list, you can join it by going to:

   https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-announce

Thanks, and congratulations to the Kea team on reaching 2.0.0.

Michael McNally
ISC Support


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ISC's Kea team members are proud and happy to announce the release of Kea 2.0.0.

2.0.0 is the first release of a new stable production branch of Kea,
representing the culmination of the work done in the 1.9.x experimental
development branch.  With this transition, the 1.9.x branch is ended and
a new development branch (2.1.x) will be started to continue development.

Also ending is support for Kea 1.6.x - ISC's intended policy is to support
two stable branches of Kea.  With this development those branches are
Kea 1.8 and Kea 2.0 and we recommend that any operators still running a
version prior to 1.8.2 make plans to upgrade, as the 1.6 branch is now
End of Life (EOL) and will not receive further bug or security fixes.


                         What's new in Kea 2.0.0?
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The 2.0.0 release contains the results of a year's worth of development
effort, previously previewed in the 1.9 development branch.

Highlights include:

   - Better performance when using High Availability (HA)
   - Tunable parameters for more flexibility in high-traffic environments
   - Greater resiliency and improved handling of broken clients
   - Ongoing security improvements
   - New hooks

You can read about these features, and more, at greater length in our blog:

   https://www.isc.org/blogs/2021-09-29-kea-2.0/

The new release is available from our website:

   https://www.isc.org/download

and documentation is available via:

   https://kea.readthedocs.io/


                     Thank you to those who contributed
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As always, we are grateful for those whose contributions, either of code
or of resources, have helped us to reach this point.  The team are proud of
how far the Kea project has come since its inception and hope to make many
more improvements as the work continues, and we very much appreciate having
your help as we do so.