[db-wg] Release 1.85 (changed phase 3) deployed to RC

Dear working group,

We have just deployed release 1.85 to the Release Candidate environment.

This release completes the deprecation of the "changed:" attribute:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/tim/deprecating-the-changed-attribute-in-the-ripe-database

With this release we will:

 = Filter out "changed:" from all RIPE Database objects
 = Actively remove "changed:" from all RIPE Database objects
 = Reject updates that contain "changed:"

We encourage all users of the database to test their tools. If no issues are found we plan to deploy this release to production on Monday 1 February 2016.

Note that this release includes all changes from the previous release, 1.84.1. But, we only plan to upgrade the RIPE Database hardware, and deploy the 1.84.1 release, in the first half of January. Because this upgrade will involve a brief outage for updates to the Database, we will communicate a more detailed plan with time lines closer to the date.


Kind regards,

Tim Bruijnzeels

Assistant Manager Software Engineering
RIPE NCC Database Group