[db-wg] Whois Release 1.98

Dear Working Group,

We have now deployed Whois 1.98 to production.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC


> On 17 Sep 2020, at 15:49, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Working Group,
> 
> RIPE Database release 1.98 has been deployed to the Release Candidate environment. We plan to deploy to production on Thursday 1st October.
> 
> This release includes the following main changes:
> 
> * NWI-11 Punycode Internationalized Domain Names in email addresses.
> * Return remark in RDAP response when abuse-mailbox validation has failed.
> * RDAP CORS changes
> * RDAP invalid syntax exception
> * A deleted object may be matched in the fulltextsearch index (fixed)
> 
> In addition to other small improvements and bug fixes.
> 
> The release notes are on the website:
> https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.98
> 
> More information on the Release Candidate environment can be found on our website:
> https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/rc-release-candidate-environment
> 
> Please let us know if you find any issues with this release in the RC environment.
> 
> Regards
> Ed Shryane
> RIPE NCC
> 
>