AFRINIC Online Services Changelog (Draft-2022)
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2021-07-27 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.9.2 (Current)
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- Review changed attribute syntax
- Change the API Key Header Key for Legacy Resource API Call
2021-07-08 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.9.1
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- Remove the business rule for maintainer names to end with -MNT
2021-07-01 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.9.0
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- Deprecate CRYPT and MD5 authentication completely
2021-04-29 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.8.0
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- Remove organisation objects of type "other" and "non-registry" using the DB migration job
- Update Org-type definitions on WHOIS
- Update Lame checker code update to ensure it can work over HTTPS via proxy
- Exclude lame delegations covered by legacy resources from deletion
- Exclude AFRINIC resource covered lame delegations from deletion
- Implement mechanism for an update of Lame delegation notifications after resource transfers on WHOIS
- Change of URL on Lame Delegation Email
- NRO-ECG: RDAP Compliance for 2020
- DNSCHECK: make batch size configurable on the DNS checker nodes
- Adjust DNS checker node ping frequency to 15 minutes.
- DNSCHECK: Make DNS checker cronjob configurable on the nodes
- Adjust log file location on the nodes
- Dummify the API key in the node log files. (edited)
- Maintainer names should end with -MNT
- Show description of holes attribute for route and route6 correctly
- When a user encounters a syntax error, provide the error description in the output
- Remove old lameness remarks for RDNS objects with lame delegations
- Remove remarks from lame delegations after transfer
- Include exact match for child rdns objects during transfers
- Check and Remove events after transfer only for respective lame delegations
2021-02-25 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.16 build 260
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- Exclude specific objects from unref cleanup
- Fix issue with IPv6 announcements check job
- Fix issue with auto-dbm password dummification in the logs
2020-12-16 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.16 build 255
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- Delete unreferenced objects older than 90 days for the following object types
- MNTNER
- key-cert
- irt
- The unreferenced cleanup is an optional monthly job (will run only on whois master)
- JMX equivalent created for unreferenced and IPv6 announcement checks to enable run on demand
- Fix to timeout bug for ipv6 announcement checks during a call to RIPE stats API
- Do not log users plain text password in the audit log
- CRYPT and MD5 cannot be used to authenticate any objects apart from updates to maintainers
- Make key-cert objects immutable and make mnt-by optional. for key-certs
2020-11-16 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.15 build 254
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- Delete domain objects with trailing dot
2020-11-04 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.15 build 252
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- IPv6 assignments/allocation prefix announcement checks
- Extend/rectify IPv6 assignment/allocation prefix
2020-10-13 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.14 build 251
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- Changes to Inet(6)num before deletion validator
- ASN before deletion validator
- Check for hierarchical as-sets\
2019-02-18 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.7.11
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- Upgrade some old libraries to improve stability and security + code refactoring
- Fix SingleUpdateHandler and MultipleUpdateHandler transaction propagation
- Minor text update when a user queries the WHOIS server on cli or web client
- Add ToU to WHOIS Web UI
2019-01-30 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.10
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- Disable the lame delegation validator during batch updates
- Shutdown properly the executor service after the lame delegations checks
- [APPS-1710] Batch update with callback
- [APPS-1705] Optional callback to send the result of an update
- [APPS-1693] RDAP: better logging of queries + some bug fixes
- Add code (commented) to build the full history of an object. For debug/internal report only
- [APPS-1664] GRS import updates:
- Import only route/route6 objects by default
- Update JMX operations to allow the import of other object types if necessary
- Rebuild DB by default
- Fix issues with comments in the GRS dumps
- Log route/route6 objects with AFRINIC prefixes
- Add RIPE-NONAUTH GRS source
2018-11-21 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.8
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- Lame delegations: fix a bug when sending the emails. If the WHOIS objects do not exist in the DB, disable the delegation
- Update logs
- Lame delegations external nodes/web tool: use node name instead of the node host
- [APPS-1654] Lame delegations: new email templates in case the deletion flag is disabled + Specific event added in case of a remark and removed when the delegation is not lame anymore
- NSchecker: adjust some log levels
- Lame delegations: quick check feature for the lame delegation web tool
- Decrease the timeout of the NsCheckExecutor to 2 hours
- Refresh RIR extended stats files
- [APPS-1644] Dynamically refresh the list of reserved/unallocated AS blocks from the IANA XML stats file every day
- WHOIS DNS checker: enhance the REST API response in case of a 404
- Lame delegations checker: fallback to dig in case the JNDI DNS lookup fails
- Better performance when updating multiple delegations at the same time
- Make NSChecker static to avoid complex thread concurrency issues
- Shuffle the lame delegations list on the external nodes to avoid testing the same NS at the same time for the same domains
- REST API: add a check per domain+nameserver and an endpoint to get the list of the NS per domain (empty result)
- Lame delegations: do not clean the older events if the flag to clean the DB is set to false
2018-11-08 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.6
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- Refresh RIR extended stats files
- [APPS-1644] Dynamically refresh the list of reserved/unallocated AS blocks from the IANA XML stats file every day
- WHOIS DNS checker: enhance the REST API response in case of a 404
- Lame delegations checker: fallback to dig in case the JNDI DNS lookup fails
- Better performance when updating multiple delegations at the same time
- Make NSChecker static to avoid complex thread concurrency issues
- Shuffle the lame delegations list on the external nodes to avoid testing the same NS at the same time for the same domains
- REST API: add a check per domain+nameserver and an endpoint to get the list of the NS per domain (empty result)
- Lame delegations: do not clean the older events if the flag to clean the DB is set to false
2018-10-22 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.4
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- Increase timeout and retries for the NSChecker
- Add a timeout on the ExecutorService threads: 6h by default
- Clean the old events during the daily check (remove events older than 2 months)
- Fix a bug in the checkEvent method (at least one instead of exactly one)
- RDAP RIR alignment
- Lame delegation checks: data model refactoring
2018-10-12 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.3
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- [APPS-1621] Lame delegation stats generation bug + optimizations
- Set additional scheduled tasks as optional to avoid breaking the DB replication of public nodes
- [APPS-1613] API to get the list of lame delegations
- [APPS-1607] Lame delegations: API to get the list of checks for a delegation
- [APPS-1560] Batch dry-run
2018-09-26 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.4.0
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- Maven version: 2.4.0
- [APPS-1514] Lame delegation checks updates
- [APPS-1587] [Transfer] IPv6 and Partial Transfer
- Remove unnecessary exception logs in the Authenticator
- [APPS-1564] Lame delegation stats
- [APPS-1455] Disable aut-num authentication when creating/updating a route(6) object
- Update RT default server to ticketing.staging
- [APPS-1508] Add API key to secure dsncheck queries
- [APPS-1513] [Transfer execution] - return the child routes + the exact match
- [APPS-1502] [DNS Lame checker] Add other data from the API
- [APPS-1367] Lame Delegation Policy Implementation: Update email content
- [APPS-1367] Lame Delegation Policy ImplementationAdd "changed" attribute when updating a domain object
- Database maintenance JMX : add an operation to delete an object
- [APPS-1355] Check whether mnt-lower can be deprecated on aut-num
- Lame delegations: optimizations
- Code refactoring
- [Lame delegations] Better bulk email handling
- [APPS-1354] Autnums: replace mnt-lower with org's mnt-ref if necessary
- [APPS-1431] Lame delegation standalone JAR to run checks from any location
- [APPS-1453] [Lame Delegation] REST API
- [APPS-1367] Lame Delegation Policy Implementation: Do not act on domain objects if they have been edited (lame nameserver updated or removed)
- Update the JMX options to allow a connection from a remote host
- [APPS-1367] Lame Delegation Policy Implementation
- Switch to JDK1.8 + the "release" profile now launches the unit tests
2017-11-24 - WHOIS 2.3
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- Reduce exceptions logging when not necessary.
- Hazelcast upgrades for better in-memory hash maps operations (ACL rules).
- When RIR stats files cannot be downloaded, retry up to 10 times.
- If a resource is queried on an external WHOIS and a connection error occurs, use the default WHOIS.
- Modify size of parent 'reservation' for 196.223.x.x/16.
- Abuse contacts are displayed when they are specified in the IRT object.
- Ignore the generated attributes (parent for example) when comparing objects before update/deletion.
- Increase the external WHOISes timeout from 10s to 1h and always disconnect the client after a query, whether successful or not.
- Update BouncyCastle to v1.4 for security issues
- The mail messages API is now able to handle 7-bit encoded messages (for REST for example).
- Introduce a REST service for SMIME-signed messages. There was a service for PGP-signed and unsigned messages.
- Remove the override option from the StatusValidator on inetnums. From now, even with override privileges, it is not possible to add overlapping inetnums in the DB.
- Add BCRYPT-PW as the password-hashing algorithm.
- Deprecate CRYPT-PW and MD5-PW.
- Add an API to have PreProcess jobs on the WHOIS updates. Use the template method design pattern.
- Create an admin-c contact for AFRINIC auto-generated MNTNER for an unprotected person and role objects (with a DBMigration task).
- Auto-generate a mntner object for any unprotected new person or role object.
- Generate a mntner object for an existing unprotected person and role objects + send an email to the owner when the email address is specified.
- Warning for unprotected person/role objects when they are edited.
- Scheduled job to remove orphaned (unreferenced) auto-generated maintainers from the DB every day.
- Better charset encoding detection when reading objects from the DB: use of Apache Tika to make sure the best matching encoding is detected. Encode in UTF-8 when saving in the DB.
- RESTful API to add/update/check the last-verified attribute.
- Be able to redirect emails to another email address when needed, for example on staging for testing.
- Major code refactoring.
- Unit tests updates.