<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.0.0! This is a major release, and is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Kea.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">There are MANY backward-incompatible changes in this new version, so we strongly encourage our users to READ THE RELEASE NOTES thoroughly before upgrading to Kea 3.0.0. The software and release notes can be downloaded from our website at </span><span class="clickylink" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isc.org/download/#Kea" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">https://www.isc.org/download/#Kea</a></span><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We have written a KB article about upgrading to this new version and encourage all our users to consult this resource as they plan their migration. The article is at </span><span class="clickylink" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a target="_blank" href="https://kb.isc.org/docs/things-to-be-aware-of-when-upgrading-to-kea-300" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">https://kb.isc.org/docs/things-to-be-aware-of-when-upgrading-to-kea-300</a></span><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">.</span><div><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thank you for using ISC’s software and we look forward to your feedback!</span></div></body></html>