Release Notes

13 Dec 2012

This page will be updated with every release of RIPE Database software. The version number of the production software is visible at the end of each query as a comment and is also presented at the end of each update acknowledgement.

Version 1.58.1 (04-03-2013)

[all] Run all whois services in a single JVM

[all] Test tagging of objects

[all] Do not use Hazelcast for scheduling

[all] Less verbose logging for known issues

[query] Show message

[query] Support --types query

[query] Only allow --long options with double dashes

[update] Do not check order for changed attributes

[search] Fix exception on some queries

[wsearch] Fix indexing problem due to different file ordering on production systems

[wsearch] Filter override password

[all] improved logging

Version 1.58 (27-03-2013)

[update] No longer forward to legacy at all

Version 1.57.2 (23-03-2013)

[query] Generate help message based on actual query options

[query] Test support long query --options

[query] Fixes for object history

[query] Do not display abuse-c comment for query with brief output flag

Version 1.57.1 (21-03-2013)

[query] Do not show "no abuse contacts found" message when querying

Version 1.57 (20-03-2013)

[wsearch] WSearch indexes all update folders after daily log rollover

[update] Only show warning when abuse-mailbox is added

[update] Allow removal of abuse-c on all organisations

[update] Role attributes admin-c and tech-c are optional

[update] Role attributes admin-c and tech-c can no longer be self references

[update] Option to load addition text dumps in test database

[query] Roles with abuse-mailbox are excluded from ACL

[all] Abuse roles are not excluded in dummify process

Version 1.56.2 (19-03-2013)

[wsearch] Properly index tarred logs

Version 1.56.1 (17-03-2013)

[query] Disable Latest versions of objects shown message

Version 1.56 (15-03-2013)

[query] Version info in queries

[query] Abuse-c and abuse-mailbox documentation

[query] Change output for abuse-c contact info

[query] When encountering an object maintained by rs, show abuse contacts for that one if available and stop looking in hierarchy

[query] Look only for referenced organisations that have the abuse-c attribute

[query] Do not show warning if inetnum range is entered which can be written in CIDR notation

[update] Creating or modifying organisation, role adding abuse-c or abuse-mailbox renders warnings

[update] Free-text search does not return duplicates

[update] Free-text search uses AND logic for multiple search terms

[update] Added WSearch

Version 1.55.5 (13-03-2013)

[update] Free-text search: Also index the object-type field (required for filtering by object-type).

[update] Removed redundant Free Text Search integration test, added tests for facet search and subwords.

[update] Don't return a stack trace on an invalid parameter value when calling the REST API.

Version 1.55.4 (11-03-2013)

[update] Free-text search added to core of whois server

Version 1.55.3 (08-03-2013)

[update] Only validate adding/deleting/updating an inetnum mnt-lower attribute with an 'ASSIGNED ANYCAST' status.

Version 1.55.2 (06-03-2013)

[update] Perform update database operation based on objectId, rather than type and pkey

[update] Don't support octet-streams for now

Version 1.55.1 (05-03-2013)

[update] Also sanitize object when override id is used, fixes comparison object with override options.

Version 1.55 (01-03-2013)

[update] For now allow all first description changes because current implementation breaks compatibility

[update] Allow override options to allow fixing some corrupted objects in the database

Version 1.54.2 (27-02-2013)

[update] Index with mntRoutes writes in mnt_routes table only

Version 1.54.1 (25-02-2013)

[update] Fail on circular AUTO-nnn references

[update] Fallback to index lookup if pkey cannot be found fixes duplicate inet6num issue

[update] Fix logging of sync updates

[update] Verify PGP signed message using subkeys (check the subkey has been signed by the master key, and that the subkey is a signing key).

[query] RIPE-GRS uses RIPE datasource and radix trees and is dummified on the fly

Version 1.54 (21-02-2013)

[all] Warn about unapplied database patches on startup
[query] Generate verbose RPSL documentation automatically
[update] Warn on invalid key-cert objects used for authentication, eg. Objects with no new line after the PGP header
[update] Convert multipart pgp-signed data into canonical (CRLF) format, according to RFC2015
[update] AUTO-nnnABC placeholders are considered to refer the same object when nnn is equal
[update] Internal software errors on individual object update does not cause entire update to fail, only specific objects with issues are not updated

Version 1.53 (20-02-2013)

[updates] ACL REST API for Customer Services
[updates] Deploy new route 6
[query] Cleanup ACL events after 3 months

Version 1.52.11 (19-02-2013)

[query] Only show abuse-c message when abuse contact found

Version 1.52.10 (18-02-2013)

[updates] Concurrently perform DNS check for all updates to improve performance
[query] Other sources than RIPE or TEST will not show abuse-c information + no abuse-c information for root objects

Version 1.52.9 (15-02-2013)

[query] Jmx Support bugfix.

Version 1.52.8 (12-02-2013)

[updates] Business rules for abuse-c
[query] Brief output shows abuse-c information
[query] Queries for autnums and inet(6)num shows abuse-c information

Version 1.52.7 (11-02-2013)

[updates] When sending raw updates to legacy, remove LGC keyword

Version 1.52.6 (08-02-2013)

[updates] Abort unref cleanup when there are too many errors
[updates] Pass update to legacy when LGC appears in mail subject, temporary

Version 1.52.5 (07-02-2013)

[updates] INETNUM SUB-ALLOCATED PA status, object cannot be smaller than /24

Version 1.52.4 (06-02-2013)

[updates] Wrap up aut-num and enable in production

Version 1.52.3 (29-01-2013)

[updates] GRS import performs syntax checks on type attribute when importing

Version 1.52.2 (24-01-2013)

[updates] Wrap up inet6num and enable in production
[updates] Resolve ASSIGNED_PA validation issues for inetnum

Version 1.52.1 (17-01-2013)

[updates] Fail update when keyword DIFF is used
[updates] Fail update when no updates are found in the request
[updates] Unreferenced object cleanup for irt, keycert, maintainer, organisation, person, role

Version 1.52 (11-01-2013)

[updates] Inetnum fixes and enabling on production

Version 1.51 (10-01-2013)

[updates] GRS import

Version 1.50.9 (09-01-2013)

[updates] Unreferenced object cleanup for person, role

Version 1.50.2 (07-01-2013)

[updates] Fix exception when checking PGP credential with a X09 key-cert

[updates] Update log with authentication info

Version 1.50.1 (17-12-2012)

[updates] Update log

Version 1.50 (14-12-2012)

[updates] Handle multipart, including X509 and PGP support

Version 1.49 (13-12-2012)

[updates] Filter auth lines when sending notifications

[query] Filter auth lines even when no filtering behaviour option (-B) is specified

Version 1.48 (11-12-2012)

[updates] JMX command to load text dumps ("split files")

Version 1.47.3 (10-12-2012)

[updates] send updates with dangling internal auth. to legacy

Version 1.47.2 (07-12-2012)

[updates] handle spaces and tabs following PGP header lines

Version 1.47.1 (07-12-2012)

[updates] disabled signed message support

Version 1.47 (06-12-2012)

[nrtm] placeholder for dummy role, used to be person

[query] database dump / split files

[updates] handle multiple updates

[updates] allow no more than 20 passwords in an update message

[updates] added support for domain, irt, poem, poetic-form object types

[updates] added support for all set object types

[updates] The nserver attribute is now a mandatory field in the domain object type

[updates] address space holder authentication using RS maintainter

[updates] added more specific syntax error message

[updates] allow spaces and tabs in separator line between objects

Version 1.44 (04-12-2012)

[updates] added support for inetnum, inet6num, route, route6, inet-rtr and key-cert object types

[updates] Create inetnum with status EARLY REGISTRATION is only allowed by RS Staff

[updates] Address prefix range n cannot be lower than prefix length (e.g. 192.168.0.0/16^8 is invalid)

[updates] Messages in the update response are formatted consistently

[updates] Report country code errors at the attribute level

Version 1.43.1 (26-11-2012)

[updates] properly handle Windows new lines

[updates] prevent radix tree update error on corrupt IP object

Version 1.43 (22-11-2012)

[updates] MD5-PW token on auth line is case insensitive

[updates] fix occasional deadlock when handling mailupdates

[updates] handle corrupt data (due to incorrectly deleted objects in 2004)

[updates] allow nic-handles without suffix

[updates] when logging address ranges remove trailing '/'

[updates] set RIPE NCC's ipv4 range to 193/19

Version 1.42 (20-11-2012)

[updates] proper handling of '+' in continuation lines

Version 1.41 (18-11-2012)

[updates] key attributes are always t

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