Kea 3.0, our first LTS version

Summary

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. The software and release notes can be downloaded from our website at https://www.isc.org/download/#Kea. More Open, with Longer-term Support With this release, we are ending maintenance of Kea 2.4 and opensourcing TWELVE Kea hooks that were previously under a commercial license. Now, Kea open source users should be able to use all the features of Stork, including managing host reservations and subnet configuration. We have heard that you would like the option to upgrade Kea less frequently. We have been releasing a new stable version every year and supporting it for two years, but Kea 3.0 will be our first release with a three-year life span. We will continue supporting two stable versions at a time, including the 3.0 LTS version and one other. We also plan to have more frequent maintenance releases, at least one every six months for our stable versions. Kea 3.0 includes a number of major changes which are not backwards-compatible. This is a significant release, which brings so many changes, that we decided to skip the Kea 2.8 version number and release Kea 3.0 as the next stable branch after Kea 2.6. Users are strongly encouraged to read the Kea 3.0 release notes carefully before upgrading. Some changes will require configuration changes. Our helpful support team has compiled a list of things to be aware of when upgrading to Kea 3.0. Here are a handful of the most significant changes: The installation process has changed because we have changed the packaging for Kea hook libraries. Most Kea hook libraries have become open source and are freely available; the only exceptions are the Role-Based Access Control hook (RBAC) and the Configuration Backend hook (CB), which remain commercially licensed. The open source hook libraries will be available in the Kea source tarball and for package installation from the official ISC repositories on...