AFRINIC Online Services Changelog

WHOIS DB

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

Changelog

• 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
Current version:

• 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
Changelog

• [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
Changelog

• 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.