> On Jun 7, 2025, at 2:52 PM, Kevin P. Fleming <lists.kea-us...@kevin.km6g.us> > wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2025, at 14:16, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: >> >> I just upgraded to 2.6.3, and my network was broken because the daemons >> would not start, because the configuration files placed the sockets in /tmp >> (which is no longer permitted). >> >> While I understand that it's rare, if a patch release (incrementing only the >> last component of the version number) contains breaking/incompatible >> changes, please help the users by noting that in the release announcement. >> It is certainly true that not every user reads the entirety of the release >> notes before upgrading to a new version. > > Taking this a step further... the reason my system was broken is that I had > the sockets in /tmp, which was what all of the Kea example configurations > included before 2.6.3 was released (the commits for the backport of the fixes > to 2.6.3 changed the example configurations too). > > This definitely could have included a prominent warning, as all users who > started with the example configurations and previously had no reason to > change the socket paths will be required to change their configurations > before upgrading.
Ok Kevin, I hear you. I think we were just so exhausted and this was such a significant and difficult release for us, it really didn’t occur to me that people would update without reading the release notes. Of course, it is highly unusual to put breaking changes into a maintenance version, which I guess is what you were counting on. I also hope releases like this are an unusual occurrence, but I will try to remember to highlight breaking changes in maintenance releases in the announcements in the future, if we ever have to do this again. Thank you for the feedback. Vicky > > -- > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. > > Kea-users mailing list > Kea-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users -- ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. Kea-users mailing list Kea-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users
