Lease version 1.99.7 is available
August 31, 2025
Lease version 1.99.7 has been released (tagged at
1.99.7.20250831123527.772ce56e35
). This is in a series of releases
made from the 1.99 development branch.
The following are release notes for Lease 1.99.7:
- RT1428: The packaging of Lease was updated. Lease is part of a source
code tree with other components such as Loop and Border, and
previously only Lease and Loop were packaged. Other components of the
tree are also packaged now as part of a multi-package RPM spec
file. The
border-release
package which installed theborder-epel
,border-epel-testing
,border-fedora
, andborder-fedora-testing
DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key has been replaced with theakira-release
package which installs theakira-epel
,akira-epel-testing
,akira-fedora
, andakira-fedora-testing
DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key. - RT1672: A minor syntax error was fixed in the Lease RPM's post-installation script (it did not cause an actual issue other than the error report).
- RT1613: All the programs of Loop and Lease were updated to use consistent command line options for version, verbosity, help, etc.
- RT1618: DNS names were added to the list of items in the data and privacy section of the Loop and Lease user manuals.
To upgrade from a previous release of Lease on an RPM platform, first
remove the obsolete border-release
RPM:
[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf remove border-release
Then, install the akira-release
package as described in the
installation instructions. This will install the
new DNF package repositories.
Then, upgrade the lease
package, which should install it from the new
DNF package repository:
[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade lease
You may clean up the old Border Package Signer key using
clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey
:
[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf install clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey
[user@host ~]$ sudo clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey