[db-wg] Release 1.88 deployed to RC

Dear working group,

We have released whois version 1.88 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment. We plan to deploy this version to production on Monday 10 October.

This release contains a number of small improvements:

- Users can now delete syntactically incorrect objects
   (before you would have to update the object before it could be deleted)
- Users are now allowed to change the status if a resource object if it is NOT-SET

This release also includes some minor fixes for infrequent bugs, and provides an API that can be used in a future release of the Webupdate User Interface that will allow users to set up rDNS for a prefix and create domain objects in bulk. We are currently working on the latter but expect to have this ready just after the RIPE Meeting.

Kind regards

Tim Bruijnzeels
Assistant Manager Software Engineering
RIPE NCC Database Group