= Kea 1.3.0, October 27 2017, Release Notes = 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 may be downloaded from: https://ftp.isc.org/isc/kea/1.3.0/kea-1.3.0.tar.gz A PGP signature of the distribution is at https://ftp.isc.org/isc/kea/1.3.0/kea-1.3.0.tar.gz.sha512.asc 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. 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