Release Notes for RIP version 3.0.1
***********************************

This is primarily a bug fix release.

whois_rip bug fixes:

o In update mode when stopping updates dbupdate connections in the
  backlog queue were not processed and dropped later when server was
  stopped.

o '\t' was not recognized as a valid whitespace. So some attributes
  containing several words were not stored correctly in the back-end
  database.

o When in VNRTM mode the mirror client enters a loop requesting serials
  without any delay between the attempts, when a requested range doesn't
  exist or server returns an error. Thus flooding the mirror server with
  requests.

o Object templates were corrected in accordance with RIP object
  definitions.
  
o Server will now timeout on socket writes, if client is unresponsive.

o Lookups for netname, mntner, and limerick now corrected to allow
  underscore.


dbupdate bug fixes:

o The forward message of a networkupdate didn't contain the IP of the
  updating client.

o When the update failed with authentication failure, the
  acknowledgement message didn't show the object.

o Classless inetnums were accepted. Not any more.

o When updating key-certificate objects, generated attributes used to
  disappear.

o E-mail address from the "Reply-To" field of an update message
  was not extracted correctly.

o The parantheses were not taken as comments in e-mail addresses.

o In cross-notifications, the "exact matches" and "less specifics"
  parts listed the route itself.

o A '\'', '.' or '`' character wasn't possible in person/role
  objects.

o Dates in changed attributes were not checked properly.

o dbupdate core dumped when deleting some syntactically incorrect legacy
  objects.


Features:

o A mirror server never returns the latest serial when serving mirroring
  request. So if the latest serial causes server crash and database
  corruption, it never propagates to the secondary servers. The latest
  serial is not displayed with -q sources query as well.


Tools:

o A new Whois client, whois3, is now included with the release.  This
  client offers ability to query in persistent mode, reading multiple
  queries from standard input and sending them to the server.

o The ripe2rpsl script has had support for optional country-code
  attribute added to most classes.



Release Notes for RIP version 3.0
*********************************
The major changes with this version are:


- CA module
    All configuration variables are currently mandatory.  

- UP module
    Implemented networkupdate.

    Subject line parsing and processing has been implemented.

    Several bug fixes.

- UD 
    Improved logging when performing crash recovery

- SV 
    SIGUSR1 is used to pause/resume updates. Normally, command interface
    is used.

    SVSIGTERM and SIGINT are both used to shutdown the server

- RP/RX
    Reloading of the radix trees for a given source is implemented


- QI
    Query path no longer core dumps when MySQL returns an errors.

    We uncovered a couple of MySQL bugs, one of which caused MySQL to
    incorrectly return an error.  Should this (or a different) bug occur
    in the future, the server will continue to answer queries as best it
    can.

    Blank line removed between banner and copyright message.  For a
    valid query, the banner and copyright appear as one comment block.

    Temporary tables configured automatically.

    Version of MySQL detected at compile and TEMPORARY tables now used
    if possible.

- PW
    Ability to pause queries.  Useful for doing manipulations of the
    MySQL database "under the hood" without taking RIP off-line.


Release Notes for RIP version 3.0beta3
**************************************
There are two major changes with this version:

- With MySQL 3.23 you now have the option to use TEMPORARY tables.
  There are two advantages of this:

    1. The tables are automatically deleted when a connection is closed.

    2. If the TMPDIR environment variable used by the MySQL daemon is
       set to a directory mounted in memory, then there is no disk I/O
       for temporary tables.  This is much faster - we actually can't
       support our query load without it!

  To use this, you must do a quick source modification today.  This will
  be changed to a configure option in the future.  To configure this,
  edit modules/qi/query_instructions.c, and add the line:
 
    #define MYSQL_3_23

  To the top of the file before you build RIP.

- A major memory leak on Solaris 8 has been fixed.  The
  regcomp()/regfree() pair did not free memory.  As a workaround,
  regcomp() is only called at startup.  This should also be faster.

Other bug fixes:

- CLIENTADDRESS referral now properly passes addresses

- AS-SET queries with ':' now work (hopefully)

- The "-m" queries now work.

- You can use '-' in the source variable now.

- Improvements in acknowledgement and notification message formats.
  
- Fixed multiple notification problems.
  
- Fixed memory allocation bug in dbupdate.
  
- Fixed bug which prevented the last attributes of the object
    with references to auto NIC handles from appearing in the 
    database.
  
- Refering to invalid auto NIC handles is reported in the
    acknowledgement message as an error.

UD:
- Object parsing is reimplemented improvind performance and fixing
several bugs related to line continuation and list valued attributes.
- New mode of operation is supported when NHR is not updated. This
allows to mirror sources with less strict syntax rules regarding
nic-handles. This also improves performance in such cases.

SK:
- buffer management bug in SK_gets




Release Notes for ripe-dbase version 3.0beta2
*********************************************


This is mainly a bugfix release. There has been however an important
change in the installation procedure: the package has been "autoconfiscated",
i.e. it uses the autoconf facilities. This is a step that will ease
the work on portability, still at its early stage.

Please refer to the INSTALL file for the new instructions on how
to compile the package.


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


Installation/Maintenance/Administration:

o The package has been autoconfiscated. A configure script is used
  to set several site-dependent parameters.

o The dictionary.txt file is no longer necessary; it has been hardcoded
  inside the source of the configuration module.


Dbupdate:

o Syntax checks of phone & fax attributes have been fixed.

o Checks of changed attribute: the current date is added if
  a date is missing in a 'changed' attribute. The order
  of dates is also checked: if the dates are not in order,
  then the update is rejected.

o Object formatting: The objects are "beautified" before
  being inserted into the database. Extra whitespace is
  added after the type name of the attribute.

o in dbupdate, another switch, '-S', has been implemented. 
  When this switch is used, the notifications and acknowledgements
  are sent to a predefined address (DEFMAIL configuration
  variable).  This is for testing and debugging purposes.

o The MAIL-FROM authentication scheme now accepts
  regular expressions.


Queries:

o Several little bugfixes here and there (referral, radix tree,...)



Known Bugs and Limitations
**************************


Installation/Maintenance/Administration:

o You cannot use "-" characters in paths for the definitions
  of logfiles.

o Several side-utilities still need to be implemented.

o Portability: there hasn't been much work yet on the
  portability issue. This package is known to
  work on Solaris 2.6,7 and 8, on SPARC and Intel
  architectures.


Dbupdate:

o The subject line is not parsed.

o The "networkupdate" utility is to be implemented.

o The modified objects appear doubled in notifications.


Queries:

o The "CLIENTADDRESS" referral does not pass addresses as it should.





Old Release Notes
=================

Release Notes for ripe-dbase version 3.0beta1
*********************************************


Introduction
------------

We are going v3.

The package has been renamed, from RIP to ripe-dbase v3.0 .
The reason is that all the core functionalities of the server
are now in place; what is needed now is bugfixes and work
on the infrastructure. But most of the work is done.

This is the beta of the server which will eventually be put
into production for the RIPE Database and replace the old 
software ripe-dbase v2.3.2 .


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


Installation:

o "make install" now available.


Queries:

o -F mode now uses a "+ " string in line continuation.
o -d option extends radix-style searches to reverse domains,
  including IPv6 and not-fully-parsable domains.
  Takes IP/prefix/range as argument.


Updates:

o Cross-notifications have been implemented.
o Improved acknowledgements:
  a header summary of the update message is included.
o Implemented crash recovery in both dbupdate and the update server.
  In case of server crash, a full recovery is done, including
  committing/rollbacking the crashed transaction, sending outstanding
  acknowledgements, and bringing the database into consistent state.
o New mode of operation (opMode) for managing a static source with no
  possible updates.


Maintenance/Administration:

o Added admin commands to stop query in progress, unblock an automatically
  denied user, edit the logging filters, pause/resume updates,
  switch to whois mode.
o Almost all parameters and texts are now configurable through the
  configuration file.
o There is now a separate configuration file for sources, with a
  clearer syntax.
o Introduced flexible logging system, configured via the config file.
  The various parts of the software send logs via this system.


Infrastructure:

o Introduced hs_cleanup, a utility to archive and clean up the SQL
  database of old serials and history entries.
o Introduced text_export, a utility to export a database in flat
  files that can then be used to load the database on another server.



Release Notes for RIP version 0.5.0beta1
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


Queries:

o -k quits session only if called with no arguments
  (required by RtConfig)
o -R referral fix: the local object containing "refer:"
  attribute is returned only when -R is specified
o -i upd-to and -i mnt-nfy have been implemented


Updates:

o The PGPKEY authentication scheme is now supported.
  PGP messages are handled by the software.
o There are no more hardcoded values in dbupdate.h .
o The "Reply-To:" fields of incoming messages (if they
  exist) are used to send the acknowledgements.

Plus numerous bugfixes.



Release Notes for RIP version 0.4.2beta1
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


o This is mainly a bugfix release. Several
  bugs have been fixed, including memory leaks.


Release Notes for RIP version 0.4.1beta1
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


o This is mainly a bugfix release.
o A basic whois client, whoisRIP.c, has been added
  to ease the task of querying a RIP database which
  supports new flags in respect to the allowed flags
  of a "classic" RIPE whois client.



Release Notes for RIP version 0.4.0beta1
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------


Queries:

o query cancellation: closing the socket aborts the search to save
  resources. Note for -k: all data entered before the server finishes
  answering the previous query will be discarded
o query read timeout: the server closes after no data has been received
  for a specified period of time
o -i member-of displays only members validated by the mbrs-by-ref
  attribute
o -q sources displays the available sources
o thread accounting: the currently active threads can be displayed in the
  admin interface with "show threads"
o input filtering: disallowed characters are dropped from the query
o closing session on error: -k mode connection is closed on error


RIP server:

o Multiple repository support by a single server. 
  That means that one can e.g. NRT-mirror RIPE and RADB 
  and update TEST database running only one [super]server. 
  Operational parameters are defined in configuration file.
o Improved support of RPSL syntax (line continuation, 
  End-Of-Line comments, etc.).
o The server can mirror _only_ RPSL stream now. If someone wants to
  NRT-mirror a RIPE181 database, he needs to run a "mirror reflector"
  and use it as a NRTM server. This tiny program (bin/mr) connects to
  a specified NRTM server and accepts requests from RPSL NRTM client. 
  After receiving a request it converts the data stream on fly using
  a specified convertor.
o While mirroring failed transactions are stored for re-distribution
  anyway. This should improve NRTM server reliability and allow
  re-distribution of data from other repositories not fully compliant with
  current implementation (e.g. different level of ref.integrity, different
  NRTM protocol).
o Different handling of deletion of a set. Now this operation is not
  blocked even if the set is referenced from other objects by member-of
  attribute. In order not to violate DB integrity, the set is actually not
  deleted but converted into a dummy object, not visible outside.


Updates:

o More informative acknowledgement messages.
o MIME support added.
o Notifications (except cross-notifications) are in place.
o The "test" mode is implemented. In this mode, users can create mntner 
  objects without overriding. 
o Most of the configuration variables implemented.


Configuration:

o The configuration module is now in place. It is not fully integrated
  in the modules yet, so in this release the configuration is mixed:
  some variables must still be set in the PROPERTIES file, and a small
  number is still to be modified in the header files.




Release Notes for RIP version 0.3.1beta1
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------

o There have been big changes in the Makefile structure.
  The hardcoded variables have been much reduced, and
  currently there is only one site-dependent Makefile
  where to change variables and paths for the user.
  Only the update module still needs some changes 
  in a particular header file in order to work in
  your environment. The up module unly affects dbupdate.
  This makes the package easier to compile and run.
o A number of bugfixes.
o Backend work.
o as-block queries are now supported.




Release Notes for RIP version 0.3.0beta2
****************************************


Changes From Last Release
-------------------------

o All the queries for the "old" object types
  are now supported. IPv6 queries have been implemented.
o in-addr.arpa queries are now supported.
o Full support of -K, -t and -v queries.
o The Access Control System is fully functional.
o The expansion of person objects referenced by name
  is working.
o The update functionality has been integrated.
o Lots of bugfixes and backend improvements.



