[Kea-announce] Kea 1.3.0 released!

Wlodek Wencel wlodek at isc.org
Fri Oct 27 16:55:25 UTC 2017


On behalf of ISC and Kea team I'm pleased to announce that
new version 1.3.0 with highly anticipated new features is now available!

Welcome to the 1.3.0 release of Kea. Kea is a DHCP implementation
developed by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. that features fully
functional DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 servers, a dynamic DNS update daemon, a
Control Agent (CA) that provides REST API to control DHCP servers, an
example shell client to connect to the CA and a DHCP performance
measurement tool. Both DHCP servers fully support server discovery,
address assignment, renewal, rebinding, release, decline, information
request, DNS updates, client classification and host reservations. The
DHCPv6 server also supports prefix delegation. Lease information can be
stored in a MySQL, PostgreSQL or Cassandra database; it can also be stored
in a CSV file. Host reservations can be stored in the configuration file;
they can also be stored in a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

The Comcast Innovation Fund provided some funding for this release.

Version 1.3.0 adds the following features to Kea:

* Shared networks - This feature allows the administrator to group
multiple subnets together. This is commonly used to pool addresses from
multiple subnets when the network has grown and more address are needed
than are available on a single subnet.  Clients in the shared network may
be dynamically assigned any address from any of the included subnets.
Shared networks are also useful for specifying common parameters such as
options for multiple subnets. If necessary, you can specify a parameter on
the shared network scope and then override its value in the subnet scope,
client class or on a host reservation.

* REST interface over HTTPS - HTTPS provides authentication,
confidentiality and integrity for communications over the REST API. We
have tested and provided example config files for securing the REST API
using Apache and Nginx. We have also provided example config files for
securing client communications using stunnel. The maximum size of control
commands and responses via REST API have been expanded, removing the 64K
limitation present in Kea 1.2. This makes handling of large configurations
possible. With these changes the REST API is now ready for production use.
Development of this feature was sponsored by a Mozilla MOSS award.

* Lease management via REST API - New API commands enable querying,
adding, reporting on current leases, and modifying existing leases while
Kea is running. This allows the administrator (or any system that
interacts with Kea) to check presence and status of leases and make
necessary changes as needed. These commands are implemented in a new Lease
Commands hook library included in the main Kea distribution. Development
of this feature was sponsored by a Mozilla MOSS award.

* Subnet management via REST API - Add, remove and modify subnets in Kea
via the API, without resending the entire Kea configuration. This will
make managing subnets via the API more feasible for configurations with a
large number of subnets or deployments that want to avoid small
interruptions when updating the whole configuration. This feature is
implemented in the new Subnet Commands hook library, available only in the
Kea Subscription package to encourage financial support for the project.

* Flexible identifier for leases - flexible identifier computed by
"flex-id" hook library can optionally be used as a client identifier for
allocated leases. In many cases it is preferred to use stable identifier
for the client, e.g. generated from the data inserted by a relay agent,
rather than client supplied identifier, which may change as a result of
hardware replacement. Previous versions of "flex-id" hook library allowed
for associating host reservations with such stable identifier. The new
version also allows for using such identifier for leases, which prevents
conflicts between leases allocated for the client before and after
hardware replacement. It also allows for retrieving leases by flexible
identifier using REST API.

* New options - This release introduced support for 21 DHCPv4 and 10
DHCPv6 options. Support for DHCPv4 vendor specific option (code 43) has
been improved. It is now possible to use vendor-specific syntax for that
option.

* Options in pools - It is now possible to define options in DHCPv4 pools.
This additional level gives users an ability to fine tune options and
option values.

* New hook point - A new hook point 'command_processed' allows hook
libraries to interact with command handling. Existing and new libraries
have been updated to use that hook point.

* Conditional expressions - a new expression 'ifelse' is now supported. It
allows users to make conditional choices in expressions, e.g. in client
classification or flexible identifier.

* Other bug fixes and small improvements - As usual, we fixed many bugs
and did other small improvements. In total 126 tickets (74 in beta and 52
in final) were closed.

  == Important notes regarding upgrade from previous Kea versions. ==

* In the Kea versions prior to 1.3.0, the default configurations for all
Kea services were stored in the 'kea.conf' file. The latest Kea version
splits default configurations into 4 different files, one for each Kea
service, i.e. 'kea-dhcp4.conf', 'kea-dhcp6.conf', 'kea-dhcp-ddns.conf' and
'kea-ctrl-agent.conf'. This separation was required for some of the
control commands to work properly. In order to continue using existing
configurations stored in a 'kea.conf' file, it is required to manually
move those configurations into new configuration files installed with Kea
1.3.0. This step is not required for new Kea installations.

* The 'keactrl.conf' file has been updated in the 1.3.0 release, to
facilitate the use of separate configuration files for different services
(described above). Therefore, when upgrading an existing Kea installation,
the 'keactrl.conf' file is replaced with the new version. The old
configuration file is backed up as 'keactrl.conf.bak', and can be used to
manually move any existing settings to the new 'keactrl.conf' file.

* Kea now requires the Boost system library by default.

== License ==
Kea 1.3.0 is released under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.

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

== Download ==

The Kea 1.3.0 source and PGP signature may be downloaded from:

    https://www.isc.org/downloads

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

    https://www.isc.org/about/openpgp

ISC provides detailed documentation, including installation instructions
and usage tutorials in the Kea Administrator Reference Manual.
Documentation is included with the installation or via
https://kea.isc.org/docs in HTML, plain text, or PDF formats.  ISC
maintains a public open source code tree at
https://github.com/isc-projects/kea and wiki pages with roadmap and issue
tracking at https://kea.isc.org.

Limitations and known issues with this release can be found at
https://kea.isc.org/wiki/KeaKnownIssues

We'd like 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
configuration or use case.  Also we would like to hear whether the
documentation is adequate and accurate (please open tickets for
documentation omissions and errors). 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 DHCP software support
see https://www.isc.org/dhcp-subscription/.  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 the ticket tracking system at
https://kea.isc.org

== Changes ==

The following summarizes changes and important upgrade notes since the
previous release (1.3.0-beta). The changes done since 1.2.0 can be seen
here: http://kea.isc.org/wiki/KeaReleaseNotes130beta. (See the git history
for more details and additional development.)

1334.   [bug]           marcin
         Fixed a bug in the DHCPv6 server whereby a lease with zero
         lifetimes could be mistakenly included in the server's
         response.
         (Trac #5387, git 140e7239096c0d5b9fc82b2c9c461476bf9d5729)

1333.   [doc]           tmark
         Added a discussion of conflict resolution to the DHCP-DDNS chapter
         of the Kea admin guide.
         (Trac #5275, git ce3fe30524cdc21a9cabeafbdcb2fc3cd2e86cff)

1332.   [doc]           tomek
         Clarified list of supported options, added examples for using
         hex notation to specify option values.
         (Trac #5068, git c942586172a68a7fac09e366383d996ade7f3840)

1331.   [func]          marcin
         Default "lfc-interval" value is now set to 3600.
         (Trac #5341, git dd1af78a49bfb68b88e8215dde65e40a470af81c)

1330.   [bug]           fdupont
         The option length checks were relaxed for the V-I Vendor Class
         option.
         (Trac #5391, github #57,
          git 8c1ea6684a808e8d3af9ea7eccecd93adc801e8a)

1329.   [func]          marcin
         Added support for "client-id" identifier when querying for
         leases in the lease_cmds hooks library. Documentation
         updated accordingly.
         (Trac #5395, git aceafa67f4fbde55ed6724a7b7551ed251e4ee91)

1328.   [doc]           vicky
         Acknowledgements section updated.
         (Trac #5385, git fe0658896f3784cd8f59bd5158244d6975cfe4c1)

1327.   [build]         marcin
         Updated Kea libraries' version numbers and hooks version for
         the 1.3.0 release.
         (Trac #5375, git 70c0fc164c89716419b6ee42da3ca0d4be938a30)

1326.   [func]          fdupont
         server-hostname and boot-file-name are now allowed in global,
         subnet4 and shared network scopes in DHCPv4.
         (Trac #5277, git 5a2454ec063530867dca2c46a71e342ccd98a5bb)

1325.   [bug]           marcin
         Fixed a bug whereby a reserved address could be allocated to
         a different client when this client explicitly requested
         this address.
         (Trac #5393, git 0964c66d44516a04ec62c8e70be92f216fe3df5a)

1324.   [doc]           wlodek
         Added examples of configuration for iPXE boot with DHCPv6 Kea
         server
         (Trac #5356, git c68b9b381930d1e44fd5daa1b9d033035e32cff2)

1323.   [doc]           marcin
         Added new section to Kea Hooks Developer's Guide describing how
         to implement new control commands within hooks libraries.
         (Trac #5331, git b23f36ca4a410ba7bca7fd4a9f40c008c77e3c7c)

1322.   [build]         marcin
         Copy all header files from Kea libraries during "make install".
         (Trac #5372, git cb38d39a942351ec04a655a396dd7396ea20548b)

1321.   [doc]           marcin
         Better explained subnet selection within shared networks when
         client classification is in use.
         (Trac #5367, git 26b4d240c5a1ba73e5b61f45d5a832e52f6472dd)

1320.   [doc]           marcin
         Improved documentation of shared networks within Kea Administrator
         Reference Manual.
         (Trac #5381, git c4be6a71ed3705c182d7ba4417a06ed8fa59f2b5)

1319.   [func]          marcin
         Added support for DHCPv4 option 54 (dhcp-server-identifier).
         (Trac #5376, git aae2d91f101b8c61c0abfb3482de04a8dd074121)

1318.   [doc]           marcin
         Updated Kea Administrator's Manual with the information about
         new capability of flex-id hook library to use value derived from
         flexible identifier as a client identifier or DUID.
         (Trac #5384, git cce58fee4aa0476712209a7ed92fab587258b49b)

1317.   [bug]           fdupont
         The kea-admin script now behaves properly when -4 or -6 is missing
         while using lease-dump command.
         (Trac #5379, git 53870c07d1864faf2a25bdc4ed6c5cf2b0223f8d)

1316.   [bug]           marcin
         Corrected a bug which caused a returning DHCPv4 client performing
         4-way exchange to be assigned a different address from a shared
         network than previously allocated.
         (Trac #5388, git 601a387ba43d990947ee2e1a05e78851d8133a3c)

1315.   [bug]           marcin
         Created unit test for the case when there are several IPv6 subnets
         within a shared network and each subnet specifies the same
         DHCP option with a different value. This test verifies the fix
         applied with ticket #5364 which address the problem of assigning
         options from invalid subnet.
         (Trac #5366, git 112addd4619509c464dc051f4885e00dc1f69d26)

1314.   [bug]           marcin, tomek
         Improved unit tests for shared networks and corrected a bug
         in the allocation engine which caused wrong subnet id to be
         stored in the lease database and wrong subnet be used by the
         DHCPv6 server for options assignment.
         (Trac #5364, git 07ce52ee4ce65eeeea1890201812ac83a286658f)

1313.   [bug]           fdupont
         Empty output_options structure is no longer returned by config-get
         or config-write commands.
         (Trac #5267, git f2290503ed899f00c7f2f2b905b90bc360617340)

1312.   [func]          marcin, tomek
         Added new configuration parameter "outbound-interface", which
         controls how the outbound interface and source address is
         determined for the responses sent by DHCPv4 servers to relayed
         clients. The default setting is to use the same interface as
         the one over which the query has been received. The alternative
         is to use system routing to determine the right interface and
         source address.
         (Trac #5377, git d08088923ec1ea0d1cb8a947bd520174d874d25e)

1311.   [build]         fdupont
         Improvements in --enable-shell and other parameters passed while
         building dist tarball.
         (Trac #5210, #5339, #5352,
         git e531cda4e10114a8f14bcbf3d7e25b6584230875)

1310.   [bug]           marcin
         Documented "ia_pd" parameter for lease6_renew and lease6_rebind
         hook points.
         (Trac #5368, git 6842036714f84bf12529e1a43e12ac5a07e2e5c0)

1309.   [func]          fdupont
         Kea-shell script now has an optional --path parameter that allows
         using not empty URL path.
         (Trac #5361, git 9a31c417d52f1481185b0880a10a4b5f16d8462a)
1308.   [func]          fdupont
         Support for conditional token ifelse(condition, iftrue, iffalse)
         was added. It can be used in flex-id, client classification and
         possibly other expressions that may appear in the future.
         (Trac #5363, git 34c364abd23a1a745da79c10c69b94b8defad08b)

1307.   [func]          fdupont
         When an option is defined with a record type and the array
         flag is true the last record field is an array. All standard
         options supported by ISC DHCP and using this are now supported
         by Kea (so now there is no standard option supported only by
         ISC DHCP).
         (Trac #5226, git f66951dbda8f62122187ac3a99f0fdcc65b383d8)

1306.   [bug]*          marcin
         Respective Kea daemons now use their own default configuration
         files: kea-dhcp4.conf, kea-dhcp6.conf, kea-dhcp-ddns.conf and
         kea-ctrl-agent.conf. This change is aimed at eliminating the
         issue whereby 'config-write' command overrides configuration
         of all servers rather than just a configuration of the daemon
         to which this command has been sent.
         (Trac #5338, git 252e5e8a75fa42271b0cdb6edad3c152bbf3c515)

1305.   [bug]   tmark
         Corrected logic that was causing kea-dhcp4 to remove DNS entries
         when renewing leases with generated FQDN names.  Prior to this
         the server was incorrectly scheduling DNS removal when configured
         to generate the client's FQDN.
         (Trac #5369, git 18f57f502f1b9fb5bf7ef5ab995ddda60006fd39)

The following changes were made to the premium package since its 1.2.0
release:

19.    [doc]        mcnally
     INSTALL and README files rewritten.
     (Trac #5401, git 72a55979349228c4c1c335962f15437d071ecd79)

18.    [doc]        tomek
     Developer's Guide for host_cmds library written.
     (Trac #5319, git 2c613f7f59a74eb5b46d9425f50be61662d6fdd9)

17.    [func]        tomek [subscriber]
     Commands for managing shared networks (network4-list,
     network6-list, network4-get, network6-get, network4-add,
     network6-add, network4-add, network6-del, network4-subnet-add,
     network6-subnet-add, network4-subnet-del, network6-subnet-del)
     added.
     (Trac #5311, git af982f696a9edd6f27f3572f0e8590f41fcf7b50)

16.    [func]        marcin
     flex-id hook library uses a value derived from flexible identifier
     as a client identifier (or DUID) for DHCP message processing. This
     guarantees that for the same value of flexible identifier the same
     lease is granted to the client.
     (Trac #5384, git 357ebffda6ebb1ab1dcac27a88baf07ff1efe35d)

15.    [func]        tmark
     The command handlers in the hook_cmds hook library are now
     implemented has hook callouts and registered with the Hooks
     manager. Prior to this they were registered as command handlers
     with the Command Mgr.
     (Trac #5332, git 1e37e289e863de03a83da56ea0b3add89e97d019)

14.    [bug]        tmark
     Modified configure.ac to call a main repo macro to properly locate
     Botan during build. Prior to this unit tests were failing to link
     under some environments, unable to find botan lib.
     (Trac #5358, git 375bc5e18ae0ba6891a74a62b1681a670d2a0de3)

13.    [build]        tmark
     Added configure flags --with-tier1 and --with-tier2 to allow
         controlling
     which hook libraries are included in the build and distribution.
     (Trac #5359, git c0e2a6d08ff08ac0e8c379176259c317490ef5c2)

12.    [func]        tmark
     Added logging of lease<4/6>-add, -update, -del control channel
     commands to the legal-log hooks library.
     (Trac #5111, git 3dc0b5db976df3e724f3d0447ef51d9fd34158f4)

11.    [func]        marcin [subscriber]
     The subnet_cmds library now supports commands for adding and
         deleting
     subnets from the current configuration.
     (Trac #5315, git 2e09d82696679084c84a61fde622adc379adfcd7)

10.    [func]        marcin [subscriber]
     A new library, subnet_cmds, is now available. It implements
     commands that list IPv4 and IPv6 subnets as well as commands
     for retrieving a subnet by subnet identifier or prefix.
     (Trac #5314, git 287f803f4df2e9bc5bb505be42a657b5c9ef3c44)

Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release
possible. If you would like to contribute to ISC to assist us in
continuing to make quality open source software, please visit our
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