Univention Bugzilla – Bug 54393
ISC DHCP is EoL - client: 2022-Q1 - server: TBD
Last modified: 2023-10-26 12:03:42 CEST
<https://www.isc.org/blogs/dhcp-client-relay-eom/> - ISC plans to end maintenance of the ISC DHCP client and relay by the end of Q1, 2022. - We will continue maintaining the DHCP server, and any code that is common between the server, client, and relay, for at least a couple more years. Client: Use systemd-networkd <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html> Server: ISC Kea <https://www.isc.org/kea/>
Looks like 4.4.1-2 is still maintained by Debian bullseye: https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/isc-dhcp
(In reply to Arvid Requate from comment #1) > Looks like 4.4.1-2 is still maintained by Debian bullseye: > > https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/isc-dhcp Bullseye was released 2021-08 and already frozen at the beginning of 2021: https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html Just because ISC-DHCP is still in Debian does not make it maintained: Essential it needs a no (co-)maintainer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995189 It is very unlikely that someone will adopt a package, which is "dead" upstream: you won't get any help from there and have to do everything yourself; And ISC-DHCP had many open bugs in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=isc-dhcp In May 2022 Debian already discussed replacing ISC-DHCP for clients: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/05/msg00042.html While ISC-DHCP is still in Debian-Sid and Debian-12 "bookworm" (testing) it may still get dropped before "bookworm" is frozen; schedules 2023-01: https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html RedHad switched fully to NetworkManager with RHEL-9, which was released last month. Ubuntu is already using NetworkManager and networkd, too: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/05/msg00047.html We will have to switch some time soon: we still can choose the time to do the transition by ourselves, or wait until we're forced and than do it in a hurry.
https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/ as of 2022-10-05
(In reply to Arvid Requate from comment #1) > Looks like 4.4.1-2 is still maintained by Debian bullseye: > > https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/isc-dhcp While it is and will probably included with Debian-12-Bullseye <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/isc-dhcp>, Debian would have dropped it if I had informed them earlier. Do not expect any security support for it! ISC offers commercial support itself, but lists no pricing: <https://www.isc.org/dhcp/>
See https://git.knut.univention.de/groups/univention/-/epics/425