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Update Kea to 2.6.1 and implement new features
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Description

We should update Kea to 2.6.1-1 to benefit from bugfixes and features from 2.5 and up.

Notable features:

  • Kea has now impemented ping-check, like present on EOL isc-dhcp-server
  • Kea now handles classless static routes (option 121) without needing custom option definition

Details

Version
1.5
Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible
Issue type
Feature (new functionality)
Story points
5

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Event Timeline

sarthurdev created this task.Mar 24 2025, 1:09 PM
sarthurdev changed the task status from Open to In progress.
sarthurdev triaged this task as Normal priority.
pasik subscribed.Mar 24 2025, 2:17 PM
sarthurdev changed the task status from In progress to Needs testing.Mon, Apr 14, 4:30 PM
sarthurdev moved this task from Need Triage to Backport Candidates on the VyOS Rolling board.

PRs

https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/4412
https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/936

ping-check library was only open sourced recently, will be available in next Kea stable release (2.8). I've backported it by patch for use in Debian build for Kea 2.6

sarthurdev mentioned this in rVYOSONEXf3e77facc067: kea: T7281: Use Kea internal option for option 121 routes, remove option 249.Tue, Apr 15, 2:54 PM
sarthurdev mentioned this in rVYOSONEXf7c5c77376b9: kea: T7281: Add support for ping-check in Kea.
sarthurdev mentioned this in rVYOSONEXd62641f1d8a0: kea: T7281: Remove `ping-check` from Kea migrator.
sarthurdev mentioned this in rVYOSONEX36e775408c88: kea: T7281: No longer uses control agent for HA.
sarthurdev mentioned this in rVYOSONEX176da07ba48f: kea: T7281: Update smoketest service check, return logs on error.
Restricted Repository Identity mentioned this in rVYOSONEX9e47c2153be7: Merge pull request #4412 from sarthurdev/kea_2.6.Tue, Apr 15, 2:54 PM