The following table shows the approximate dates when ISC officially ended engineering support for these Kea releases. Typically, a release is end of life when another major version is issued.
EOL status means that the software development team is no longer testing, patching or issuing releases for that version.
ISC Support will generally provide support for any version they are able to. However, versions without engineering support will not receive new fixes, nor will we be able to call on engineering to analyze new problems. So while Support will always try to help, for EOL versions our answer will sometimes be "you need to upgrade".
ISC's intended policy is to support the two most recent stable branches of Kea.
| Branch | End-of-Life |
|---|---|
| 3.1.0 | July 2026 |
| 2.6.0 | June 2026 |
| 2.4.0 | August 2025 |
| 2.3.0 | May 2023 |
| 2.2.0 | August 2024 |
| 2.1.0 | July 2022 |
| 2.0.0 | August 2023 |
| 1.9.0 | September 2021 |
| 1.8.0 | July 2022 |
| 1.7.0 | August 2020 |
| 1.6.0 | September 2021 |
| 1.5.0 | August 2020 |
| 1.3.0 | December 2018 |
| 1.2.0 | June 2018 |
| 1.1.0 | December 2017 |
| 1.0.0 | June 2017 |
| 0.9.2-P1 | March 2017 |
| 0.9.1 | June 2016 |
These as well as current versions of Kea can be found on ftp.isc.org.
Starting with the Kea 1.7 release, all Kea versions with an odd minor version number are development releases, and become EOL as soon as the following stable release is cut.