[db-wg] Whois Release 1.101

Dear Working Group,

We have now deployed Whois 1.101 to production.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC


> On 17 Jun 2021, at 15:42, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Working Group,
> 
> RIPE Database release 1.101 has been deployed to the Release Candidate environment. We plan to deploy to production on Thursday 1st July.
> 
> This release includes the following main changes:
> 
> * Switch RIPE database to UTC timezone (all timestamps will be in UTC and all timestamps specify the 'Z' timezone)
> * Display an error on NRTM if client is blocked by ACL limit (#812)
> * Added rewrite rules to embedded Jetty (#801)
> * RDAP nameserver queries always return Not Implemented (#811)
> * Updated dependencies
> 
> *Additionally* some operational changes will also be made to the production environment on 1st July:
> 
> * Remove support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 on HTTPS connections
>    * The IETF has formally deprecated these TLS versions, now only versions 1.2 and 1.3 are recommended.
> * Remove insecure TLS cipher algorithms
>    * TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA
>    * TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA
>    * TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_SEED_CBC_SHA
>    * TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
>    * TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
> * Remove HTTP redirects for whois.ripe.net and www.db.ripe.net
>    * HTTP requests to these hosts will no longer redirect to https://apps.db.ripe.net but will return 400 Bad Request.
> * Remove HTTP redirects for the legacy Whois REST API
>    * The legacy Whois REST API was retired in 2015, a temporary redirect to https://rest.db.ripe.net will be removed.
>    * HTTP requests to the legacy API at http://apps.db.ripe.net/whois/lookup/ripe will return 400 Bad Request.
> 
> Please check your Whois client in case you are affected by these changes.
> 
> The release notes are on the website:
> https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.101
> 
> 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
> 
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