[Kea-announce] Kea 1.5 is approaching End of Life (EOL)

[Victoria Risk]

Hello Kea users,

We are on track to end maintenance of the 1.5 branch of Kea at the end of the third quarter of 2020, which is at the end of September. We have a long-lived knowledgebase article that describes our software support policy and versioning, available at https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896 <https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00896>.  If you consult this you will see that, at the same time as we EOL Kea 1.5, we will also cease regular maintenance on Kea 1.6, and will only issue releases if there are critical fixes (such as security vulnerabilities). 

Kea 1.8, our next stable branch, should be released before the end of September.  If you are still running Kea 1.5 in production, you should upgrade to 1.6 now or plan to upgrade to 1.8 when it is available.  Kea 1.6.3 would be a more conservative choice than Kea 1.8.0. Kea 1.8.0 will have a number of feature changes, but notably includes the transition to multithreading. Kea 1.6.3 has proven to be very stable and is widely deployed, but is lacking in some features in 1.8.  See the Kea Significant Features matrix (https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01615 <https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01615>) in our Knowledgebase for the most significant feature changes. 

Regards,

Victoria Risk
Product Manager
Internet Systems Consortium
vicky at isc.org





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