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<div class="">Kea 1.0, our first production release, is almost
ready!<br class="">
<br class="">
On December 8 the Kea 1.0 beta testing period begins.<br class="">
The entire Kea development team appreciates any feedback you can
give us.<br class="">
<br class="">
Reports are welcome at the <a href="mailto:kea-dev@lists.isc.org"
class="">kea-dev@lists.isc.org</a> mailing list or, log-in and
open a ticket<br class="">
directly on our project wiki at <a href="http://kea.isc.org/wiki"
class="">https://kea.isc.org/wiki</a>.<br class="">
<br class="">
Kea 1.0 will be released on December 29 as a summary of the year
2015!<br class="">
<br class="">
Here is a summary of the changes and new features that will be
included in Kea 1.0:<br class="">
<br class="">
- Lease expiration. Kea is now able to properly clean up expired</div>
<div class="">leases, including logging, removing DNS entries for
expired leases, <br class="">
and triggering hook calls upon lease expiration. This mechanism
is <br class="">
configurable, so the administrator can choose whether they want
their<br class="">
leases cleaned up immediately upon expiration, or whether they
prefer<br class="">
to delay cleanup by a few seconds or minutes. This mechanism can<br
class="">
even be disabled altogether to get a bit of extra performance when
it's<br class="">
really needed.<br class="">
<br class="">
- Client classification. Kea 1.0 features initial support for<br
class="">
client classification. If you wanted your cable modems to act<br
class="">
differently than your CPEs, send different options to your Windows<br
class="">
machines, or put your voip devices in a completely different
subnet, now<br class="">
you can!<br class="">
<br class="">
- Decline support in both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6. Kea is now able to<br
class="">
properly handle cases where clients report that an address is
already being used<br class="">
by another device.<br class="">
<br class="">
- New statistics. Several new statistics have been added. They can
be<br class="">
used to monitor lease expiration and decline processing.<br
class="">
<br class="">
- PXE boot. Several new DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 options useful for PXE
and<br class="">
iPXE boot are now supported. <br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
We are currently working on several features that are considered
stretch<br class="">
goals for this release. Parts of the code required to support them
are already available,<br class="">
but there are still important pieces missing. Please be advised
that<br class="">
those features may or may not make it into the Kea 1.0 final
version. Feel free<br class="">
to contact ISC if you're willing to participate in testing of
those<br class="">
features when we get the engineering builds. Note that the quality
of<br class="">
such builds may be lower than released versions.<br class="">
<br class="">
Host Reservations in MySQL. Currently Kea is able to store host<br
class="">
reservations in its configuration file. That is useful when the
number<br class="">
of reservations is reasonably low, but may become difficult to
maintain<br class="">
when the number gets large. We're working on the ability to store
host<br class="">
reservations in MySQL. Besides improving scalability and
maintainability,<br class="">
this will also allow the administrator to modify
reservations without </div>
<div class="">going through the reconfiguration procedure.<br
class="">
<br class="">
DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6. The IETF recently published RFC7341, which
standardized<br class="">
a capability to configure IPv4 hosts in IPv6-only network. There's
an effort underway<br class="">
in Kea to provide a server component for that architecture.<br
class="">
<br class="">
Thank you for your support!<br class="">
<br class="">
Release Engineer,<br class="">
Włodek W. Wencel</div>
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