AFRINIC Online Services Changelog

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WHOIS DB

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2021-04-29 Release Notes - WHOIS 2.8.0 (Current)

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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.

MyAFRINIC

MyAFRINIC v1.13.0 - 2020/04/13

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	NA	NA	Transfer logs – reformatting UTC offset, type of transfer and transfer date entries in transfer log files (located on ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/transfers) now follow the same format as for other RIRs.	NA
2	NA	NA	NA	Contact Verification - Automatic email reminders Automatic email reminders are sent to members twice a year (on 1st of February and 1st of August).
3	NA	NA	NA	Contact Verification – “Un-verified” contact Hostmasters can now mark as “un-verified” an incorrect member contact.
4	NA	NA	NA	Contact Verification – Send automatic notification Members are be notified once to update their contact. Afterwards, reminders are sent automatically after every 5 days.
5	NA	NA	NA	IRR – route(6) objects Members can now create, edit or delete their route(6) objects
6	NA	NA	NA	IRR –aut-num objects Members can now update aut-num with routing attributes. Must authenticate against mnt-lower or mnt-route
7	NA	NA	NA	IRR – as-set objects Members can now create, edit or delete their as-set objects
8	NA	NA	NA	IRR – View route(6) objects Members can view route(6) objects that exist under their allocated/assigned prefixes
9	NA	NA	NA	IRR - Authentication Members have the option to authenticate with PGP or Password when managing their IRR objects

MyAFRINIC v1.7.4 - 2019/08/08

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	Rdns : accept digest type 4	NA	NA	NetSuite integrations - change mention 45 to 30 on the invoice PDF

MyAFRINIC v1.7.3 - 2019/08/01

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	NA	NA	Payment gateway response	NetSuite integrations - Billing Summary Amendments
2				Remove Restriction on IPv6 new allocation form

MyAFRINIC v1.7.2 - 2019/07/18

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	Show bank charges on the statement of account	NA	NA	NA
2	Add note on receipt for bank charges

MyAFRINIC v1.7.1 - 2019/07/18

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	The invoice template has been amended and the validity period was updated to 45 days	NA	NA	NA
2	The Summary statement page has been updated to reflect the historical and new transactions
3	The change currency deadline was set to 30 September 2019
4	AS0 support in ROA - Now members using the RPKI infrastructure can create ROA with AS 0 (zero) for prefixes they do not want to be routed. For e.g. an IXP would not want its peering LAN to appear in the DFZ and would therefore create a ROA with the peering LAN prefix with AS0
5	Summary statement - visual separation from old pastel transactions to NS transactions
6	Config: - change_currency_deadline : 30-09-2019
7	Resource issuance: - remove the check on request forms: ASN, IPV4, IPV6
8	New File: - add a page for redirection
9	AS0 support RPKI-87

MyAFRINIC v1.7.0 - 2019/07/16

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	Na	NA	NA	With Holding Tax - Some economies have a tax imposed by their central bank while processing FOREX transactions. Members shall now be able to manage the tax applicable via the MyAFRINIC portal. Check the FAQ here.
2				Hard copy invoice required - Members requiring a hardcopy of the invoice to effect payment can now ensure that their staff proactively completes this action. Check the FAQ here.
3				Preferred Payment method - Do you prefer paying by Credit card or Bank Transfer? Check the FAQ here.
4				Electronic Document usage - Does your country and organisation accept the use of electronic documents? Check the FAQ here.
5				Online payment with no login required - You may now make a payment using the details of a valid Invoice and your credit card only! Check the FAQ here.
6				Extension of deadline relating to Invoices - resulting from approval of resource requests; such invoices now remain valid for 45 days instead of 30 days
7				Invoices in EURO - Now members have the option to get their invoice either in USD ($) or EURO (€). To be noted that once the prefered currency is specified, that change cannot be undone. Please log in MyAfrinic and choose your prefered option before the next annual billing cycle. However, invoices in the EURO can only be paid via Bank transfer. The Credit Card platform will be activated soon and shall be communicated in due course. Please ensure that the change in preferred currency is completed by 30th September 2019 in readiness for the 2020 annual membership fees billing campaign. Check the FAQ here.

NMRP

NMRP v2.4.4 - 2019/05

#	Improvement	Removed	Bug Fix	New Feature
1	NA	NA	NA	Added new fields to ease the link with MyAFRINIC and Netsuite: use of electronic documents, preferred currency, payment method, withholding tax, withholding tax percentage and hard copy/soft copy of the invoice
2				Updates on information pages and disclaimers
3				Allow Member Services staff members to view and update some fields of the registrations after the applicant's submission
4				Ability to upload more than one file per category
5				Display new fees and old fees in the summary
6				After MS approval, push data to MyAFRINIC
7				Applicant can now edit the registration's organisation details after submission until MS locks it
8				Bug fixes and refactoring for improved security and responsiveness
9				Updates on the GUI to add several warning messages (eg: message for additional postage fees when a hard copy of the invoice is required)
10				ASN Contact phone is not mandatory anymore
11				Add a mandatory ASN field for the ASN peers
12				Update email templates for registration status changes
13				Fix Ipv6 indicative fees in case of /32 (V6S, not V6L)

Last Modified on - 04 May 2021

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