extensions, e.g. prefix delegation and dynamic updates to DNS.
</para>
- <para>
- Kea was initially developed as a part of the BIND 10 framework.
- In early 2014, ISC made the decision to discontinue active
- development of BIND 10 and to continue development of Kea as
- standalone DHCP software.
- </para>
-
<para>
This guide covers Kea version &keaversion;.
</para>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- Kea supports two crypto libraries: Botan and OpenSSL. Only one of them
+ Kea supports two cryptographic libraries: Botan and OpenSSL. Only one of them
is required to be installed during compilation. Kea uses the Botan
- crypto library for C++ (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://botan.randombit.net/">http://botan.randombit.net/</uri>),
- version 1.9 or later. Note that support for Botan versions earlier than 2.0 will be dropped in the Kea 1.6.0 release. As an alternative to Botan, Kea can use the
- OpenSSL crypto library (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.openssl.org/">http://www.openssl.org/</uri>),
+ library for C++ (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://botan.randombit.net/">http://botan.randombit.net/</uri>),
+ version 1.9 or later. Note that support for Botan versions earlier than 2.0 will be removed in Kea 1.6.0 and later. As an alternative to Botan, Kea can use the
+ OpenSSL cryptographic library (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.openssl.org/">http://www.openssl.org/</uri>),
version 1.0.2 or later.
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- Kea requires the Boost system library (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.boost.org/">http://www.boost.org/</uri>) at run-time, as building with the header-only version of Boost is no longer recommended.
+ Kea requires the Boost system library (<uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.boost.org/">http://www.boost.org/</uri>). Building with the header-only version of Boost is no longer recommended.
</simpara>
</listitem>
As of the 1.5.0 release, Kea provides a NETCONF interface with the kea-netconf agent.
This Kea module is built optionally and requires Sysrepo software when used.
Building Kea with NETCONF support requires many dependencies to be installed,
- which are described in more details in <xref linkend="netconf-install"/>.
+ which are described in more detail in <xref linkend="netconf-install"/>.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>