Loop version 1.99.6 is available

Loop version 1.99.6 has been released (tagged at 1.99.6-20250811025749.965cadab44). This is in a series of releases made from the 1.99 development branch.

The following are release notes for Loop 1.99.6:

• RT1606: The packaging of Loop was updated. Loop is part of a source code tree with other components such as Lease, and previously only Loop was packaged. Other components of the tree are also packaged now as part of a multi-package RPM spec file. The loop-release package which installed the loop-epel, loop-epel-testing, loop-fedora, and loop-fedora-testing DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key has been replaced with the border-release package which installs the border-epel, border-epel-testing, border-fedora, and border-fedora-testing DNF package repositories and their package signing PGP key.
• RT1607: The system path for storing PID files, session key files, etc. was updated to use runstatedir instead of localstatedir/run, as RPM packaging makes a distinction in these paths and uses the former.
• RT1608: A documentation link was added to the Systemd named.service file.

To upgrade from a previous release of Loop on an RPM platform, first remove the obsolete loop-release RPM:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf remove loop-release

Then, install the border-release package as described in the installation instructions. This will install the new DNF package repositories.

Then, upgrade the loop package, which should install it from the new DNF package repository:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade loop

You may clean up the old Loop Package Signer key using clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey:

[user@host ~]$ sudo dnf install clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey
[user@host ~]$ sudo clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey

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