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ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL #63
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The 4.4.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV-R16-P2 versions of ISC DHCP, released on October 5, 2022, are the last maintenance versions of this software that ISC plans to publish. If we become aware of a significant security vulnerability, we might make an exception to this, but it is our intention to cease actively maintaining this codebase.
https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/785e5584c498a05a2a9f9815dd440ff260fa1149
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modem7 commentedon Dec 19, 2024
I'll keep the latest Docker images up, but I will not be updating them any further.
modem7 commentedon Aug 8, 2026
Addressed in #64: the image now moves from Alpine (which dropped
dhcrelayentirely as of 3.21) todebian:trixie-slim, which still packages and security-patchesisc-dhcp-relaydespite upstream ISC-DHCP being EOL. A weekly freshness check now flags when Debian's package version drifts ahead of what's published. Migrating to Kea (ISC's actual successor) is a bigger, separate project for another time.Migrate to Debian, run non-root, split CI, align with org scaffolding (…