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RIPE Database Release Notes ​

This page will be updated with every release of the RIPE Database software. The version number of the production software is visible at the end of each query as a comment and is also presented at the end of each update acknowledgement.

You can test an upcoming Release Candidate (RC) in the Release Candidate environment

Upcoming Release

Current Release

Previous Releases

Archive of Older Releases

Release Candidate Environment ​

The Release Candidate environment contains the upcoming release of the database software with a dummified snapshot of the production data. The dummification is only applied to personal data. This environment makes it possible for you to test your software with upcoming versions of the RIPE Database.

Information About Services ​

ServiceLocation
command linewhois-rc.ripe.net, port 43
syncupdateshttps://syncupdates-rc.db.ripe.net
REST APIhttps://rest-rc.db.ripe.net
RDAP APIhttps://rdap-rc.db.ripe.net
web applicationhttps://rc.db.ripe.net
mailupdatesrc-dbm@ripe.net

Differences From Live RIPE Database ​

  • For each mntner object in the Release Candidate database, the passwords have been set to the object id. For example, the object:

inetnum: 193.0.0.0 - 103.0.7.255 ... mnt-by: ninja-mnt ... can be changed by supplying the password: ninja-mnt. Regardless of the passwords used in the live RIPE Database, in the Release Candidate database they have been adjusted to reflect the mntner id.

  • The databases are snapshots of live RIPE Database data, dummified in the beginning of each new testing period. Personal data is replaced during the dummification process.
  • No emails are sent from the Release Candidate system. This means no response from mailupdates submissions to the Release Candidate database, no ack or notify emails are sent by the Release Candidate database.

Notes ​

As in the live RIPE Database, Access Control Lists (ACLs) are active. Even though the personal data in the Release Candidate database is dummified, ACLs are active to ensure it operates in the same way as the production system.

Even though the Release Candidate database contains snapshot of the live data from the start of the testing period, no changes made to the Release Candidate database will have any impact on the live RIPE Database data. The two are completely separated.

Any scripts or automated processes you use to maintain your data in the RIPE Database can be used with the Release Candidate database - simple adjust the URLs accordingly. The whole purpose is to allow you to test your processes as closely as possible to the actual RIPE Database using newly developed and released software.

RIPE Database Release 1.100 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 8 April 2021 Production environment: 22 April 2021

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.100 includes the following main changes:

  • Separate email address and leading/trailing space during Punycode conversion (#782)
  • Use status index during update validation (#725)
  • Fixed aut-num attribute managed flag in lookup and search response (#749)
  • Added client flag to API for proxying requests (#728)
  • RDAP nameserver not implemented (#711)
  • Fixed delete object bug (#723)
  • Java 11 support (#673)
  • Update dependencies

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.101 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 17 June 2021 Production environment: 1 July 2021

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.101 includes the following main changes:

  • Switch RIPE database to UTC 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

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

Operational Changes ​

Some operational changes will also be made to the production environment on 1 July 2021:

  • Remove support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 on HTTPS connections
    • The IETF has formally deprecated these TLS versions, now only version 1.2 and 1.3 are recommended.
  • Remove unsecure 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_SH
  • Remove HTTP redirects for whois.ripe.net and www.db.ripe.net
  • Remove HTTP redirects for the legacy Whois REST API

Please check your Whois client in case you are affected by these changes.

RIPE Database Release 1.102 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 23 November 2021 Production environment: 7 December 2021

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.102 includes the following main changes:

  • NWI-13: Geofeed (#937)
  • Support base64 encoded signed update messages (sent by Thunderbird 78+)(#942)
  • Updated "geoloc:" help text (#929)
  • Support IDN in outgoing mail update notifications (#888)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.102.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 13 December 2021 Production environment: 13 December 2021

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.102.1 includes the following main changes:

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.102.2 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 20 December 2021 Production environment: 20 December 2021

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.102.2 includes the following main change:

  • Update the Log4j library from 2.15.0 to 2.17.0 to fix vulnerabilities

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.102.3 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 31 March 2022 Production environment: 31 March 2022

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.102.3 includes the following main change:

  • Update of the Spring Framework library from 5.3.13 to 5.3.18 to address Spring4Shell vulnerability.

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.103 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 25 April 2022 Production environment: 9 May 2022

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.103 includes the following main changes:

  • Fixed "geofeed:" validation when reading object containing multiple remarks: attributes (#975)
  • Removed WHITEPAGES org type. (#1003)
  • Better Error Message when Changing "mnt-by:" on Allocations (#988)
  • Allow user "mnt-by:" when creating inet6num allocations (already allowed for inetnums) (#982)
  • Disallow weak keys and hash algorithms (#642, #974)
  • Abuse-c is Required for End User Organisations With Resources (#955, #969)
  • Domain overlap validator (#956)
  • Increase HTTP idle timeout from 30s to 60s (#998)
  • Lacnic GRS import was incorrectly treated as UTF-8 (should have been latin-1). (#958)
  • Updated Zonemaster client to match API Changes (#1005)
  • Implemented Elasticsearch (#944, #989, #993, #997)
  • Updated dependencies

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.104 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 26th September 2022 Production environment: 10 October 2022

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.104 includes the following main changes:

  • Allow Grouping (-G) flag in Whois Search API (#1077)
  • cidr0 notation for RDAP response (#1068)
  • Remove whois tags (#1059)
  • Added text/plain to Search and REST APIs (#1054)
  • Add comment not NOOP (#1052)
  • Do not allow comments in managed attributes (#1045)
  • Use documentation prefix 192.0.2.0/24 (#1044)
  • Organisation country: is modifiable for end-user orgs without RIPE NCC resources (#1041)
  • Do not return deleted versions (#1015)
  • Redirect empty requests to syncupdates help (#1011)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.105 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 29th November 2022 Production environment: 13th December 2022

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.105 includes the following main change:

  • NWI-19: Change to AS-SET object naming rules

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.106 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 6th February 2023 Production environment: 20th February 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.106 includes the following main change:

  • NWI-19 Implement AS_SET NONAUTH (#1169)
  • Implement RDAP "networks" and "autnums" elements in RDAP entity response (#1103)
  • RDAP Flat model, don't return as-block (#1125)
  • RDAP Refactor rdap errors (#1124)
  • RDAP Events and notices (#1112)
  • NRTMv4 changes (#1166, #1156, #1099)
  • Improve AS-SET documentation (#1147)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.106.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 6th February 2023 Production environment: 5th April 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.106.1 includes the following main change:

  • NWI-12 NRTMv4 changes
  • Updated Zonemaster client to match API Changes (#1206, #1207)
  • Add all warnings to update with override response (#1189)
  • Handle expected servlet exceptions in RDAP exception mapper (#1193)
  • Redirect Inverse Domain queries to the Authoritative Source (#1213)
  • Fix highlight issue with dot in Elasticsearch (#1194)
  • UnmappedType warning for Elasticsearch (#1191)
  • Updated dependencies

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.107 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 5th June 2023 Production environment: 19th June 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.107 includes the following main changes:

  • NWI-14 add mnt-ref to additional object types (#1243)
  • Sign NRTMv4 notifications (#1241)
  • Separate job for NRTMv4 snapshot file (#1219)
  • Truncate long fields while indexing in Elasticsearch (#1236)
  • Elasticsearch filters inconsistency (#1231)
  • Limit resource lookups in RDAP organisation entity requests (#1220)
  • Allow any characters in local part of SSO auth email addresses (#1237)
  • LIR country attribute bug (#1245)
  • Include country: in Organisation Split File (#1251)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.108 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 13th September 2023 Production environment: 27th September 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.108 includes the following main changes:

  • NRTMv4 Use base64 instead of Hex (#1302)
  • NRTMv4 JSON Text Sequences (#1304)
  • RDAP Add multi mnt-by error (#1301)
  • RDAP Add remarks (#1278)
  • Syncupdates Warn when http (#1292)
  • Remove Lucene support (#1285)
  • Elasticsearch do not rebuild from scratch (#1294)
  • Elasticsearch use phrase without prefix due to bug (#1298)
  • Elasticsearch scape colons (#1299)
  • Jakarta / EE9 (#744)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.109 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 20th November 2023 Production environment: 4th December 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.109 includes the following main changes:

  • RDAP redaction (#1317)
  • Removed organisation "e-mail" from RDAP to match Whois and added to redaction list (#1333)
  • Removed geofeed prefix validation (#1326)
  • Added HTTPS Support to Whois Backend (#1329)
  • Support HTTP Basic authentication (#1342)
  • Support HTTPS Client Certificate Authentication (#1343)
  • Initialize NRTMv4 from command-line (JMX) (#1310)
  • Use parallel stream to generate NRTMv4 snapshots more quickly (#1309)
  • Include AS-SET in RIPE-NONAUTH dump (#1352)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.109.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 6th December 2023 Production environment: 20th December 2023

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.109.1 includes the following change:

  • [rdap] Organisation RDAP Object is Assumed to be an IP on Country Attribute (#1362)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.110 ​

Date of Deployment ​

(Deployed together with 1.111)

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.110 includes the following changes:

  • [rdap] Implemented RDAP Extension for Geofeed Data (draft-ietf-regext-rdap-geofeed-01) (#1366)
  • [rdap] Improve RDAP documentation (#1373, #1388)
  • [rdap] Implement RDAP RIR Search - Basic Search Features (#1379)
  • [rdap] Enable e-mail in RDAP entity responses (in top level vcard) (#1384)
  • [rdap] Add geofeed as a link to conform with v1 draft (#1374)
  • [api] Separate secure connector for Client Certificate authentication (#1390)
  • [api] Use clientip flag as remote address from trusted source (#1391)
  • [api] Redirect HTTP(S) requests to whois.ripe.net to the DB web application query page (#1396)
  • [api] Elasticsearch refreshed after update/create (#1367)
  • [api] Document inet6num assignment-size maximum prefix (#1375)
  • [all] Daily limit is configurable (#1401)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.111 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 14th March 2024 Production environment: 28th March 2024

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.111 includes the following changes:

  • [update] Don't send email to undeliverable addresses (#1404)
  • [update] Add email unsubscribe support (#1404)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.112 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 2nd May 2024 Production environment: 16th May 2024

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.112 includes the following changes:

  • [all] NWI-4: Add ALLOCATED-ASSIGNED PA inetnum status (#1432)
  • [query] Set Charset Flag (#1450)
  • [update] Don't allow "mnt-lower" on assignments (#1452)
  • [api] Fixed Syncupdates HELP Bug (#1453)
  • [rdap] RDAP Link Title is a String not List (#1445)
  • [mail] Remove Message If Bounce Detection Or Unsubscribe Fails (#1418)
  • [mail] Handle Multiple Delivery Status Notification Failure Responses for the Same Email Address (#1417)
  • [mail] Final-Recipient: RFC822 is case insensitive (#1423)
  • [mail] Refactor Mail Sender to allow multiple recipients (#1411)
  • [all] Route ROA checker (#1416)
  • [all] Schedule ROA load each 15 minutes (#1444)
  • [query] Allow inverse query for e-mail from trusted addresses (#1435)
  • [query] Allow inverse query for sponsoring-org from all addresses (#1431)
  • [nrtm] Return 404 on invalid NRTMv4 notification file path (#1422)

The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.112.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Production environment: 24th June 2024

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.112.1 includes the following changes:

  • [update] Validate max references (#1486)

RIPE Database Release 1.113 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Not deployed to production (superseded by 1.113.1)

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.113 includes the following changes:

  • Inetnum AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status (#1467)

  • Enable Client Auth Certificate for Lookup (#1475)

  • ROA Overlapping INVALID ROA and VALID ROA fix (#1470)

  • Java 21 Support (#1440)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.113.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Not deployed to production (superceded by 1.113.2)

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.113.1 includes the following changes:

RIPE Database Release 1.113.2 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Production environment: 1st July 2024

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.113.2 includes the following changes:

RIPE Database Release 1.114 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 5th September 2024 Production environment: 19th September 2024

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.114 includes the following changes:

  • NRTMv4 Key Rotation (#1484)

  • HTTP DoS Filter for Update Requests (#1495)

  • HTTP block IP Filter (#1498)

  • Add Warning When Password Authentication is used in Mailupdates (#1511)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.115 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 16th January 2025 Production environment: 30th January 2025

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.115 includes the following main changes:

  • API key authentication (#1569, #1597, #1618, #1620, #1622, #1624, #1626, #1627)

  • NRTMv4 client implementation (#1560, #1574, #1575, #1596, #1579, #1577, #1605, #1609, #1610, #1621)

  • Use relative path in NRTMv4 update notification file (#1583)

  • Add JWS Support To Fix Race Condition in NRTMv4 (#1564, #1589)

  • Add MNTNER to RDAP Entities Search (#1612)

  • Import ARIN and LACNIC IRR database dumps into mirror (#1428)

  • Syncupdates will return an error in future if used over HTTP (#1561)

  • Mailupdates will return an error in future if a password is used (#1559)

  • Include password authentication type in Whois Update notifications (#1541)

  • Extend Maximum Length of an Email Address (#1545)

  • Allow blocking by source address on Port 43 Queries (#1539)

  • Generate mail Message-ID including angle brackets. (#1534)

  • Change Database Schema from Latin1 to UTF8 (#1525)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.115.1 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: N/A Production environment: 3rd February 2025

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.115.1 includes the following change:

RIPE Database Release 1.116 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 17th February 2025 Production environment: 3rd March 2025

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.116 includes the following change:

  • RDAP Relation Searches Endpoint (#1603)

  • Fixes to RDAP RIR-Search (Basic Searches) Feature (#1611)

  • Return Abuse-c Entity for RDAP organisation Entity Query (#1659)

  • Update key-cert lookup URL in update notification (#1631)

  • Warn if mbrs-by-ref in set object is updated (#1662)

  • Warn on update using override if set membership claim is not supported by mbrs-by-ref (#1660)

  • NRTMv4 use EC p256 key instead of ec25519 (#1645)

  • Remove old NRTMv4 Update Notification File Links (#1652)

  • Do not send the SOURCE in NRTMv4 relative URLs (#1654)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.117 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 3rd April 2025 Production environment: 17th April 2025

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.117 includes the following change:

  • Parent status for LIR-PARTITIONED PA cannot be ASSIGNED PA (#1669)

  • ASSIGNED PA Cannot have less/more specific ASSIGNED PA (#1672)

  • Aggregation by LIR Parent should not be allowed for Aggregation by LIR (#1673)

  • Do not allow LIR-PARTITIONED PA under SUB-ALLOCATED PA in (#1702)

  • Support OAuth 2.0 (#1688)

  • RDAP Self Links Must Have the Type Set (#1685)

  • RDAP Validate Correct Key Before Redirect (#1689)

  • RDAP Fix Relation For Cross-Prefix Inetnum Range (#1693)

  • RDAP Bottom should check Parent does not CONTAINS search term (#1701)

  • RDAP Non Existing Search IP Terms in TOP and UP (#1703)

  • RDAP Add "-rdap" prefix to Relations And Change links (#1700)

  • RDAP Minimum status for Relations (#1705)

  • NRTMv4 Correct aut-num object class name in delta file (#1692)

  • NRTMv4 Client Reject Deltas When Discontinuous and reinitialise (#1699)

  • NRTMv4 Client Reject update in case client is ahead instead of reinitialise (#1698)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt

RIPE Database Release 1.118 ​

Date of Deployment ​

Release Candidate (RC) environment: 15th July 2025 Production environment: 29th July 2025

New or Improved Features ​

Whois Release 1.118 includes the following change:

  • Add prefixlen Attribute to Inet(6)num (#1816)

  • LIR-PARTITIONED PA inetnum status is not valid under ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED (#1825)

  • Removing mbrs-by-ref maintainer from set causes aut-num update containing member-of to fail (#1770)

  • Do not apply accounting for an Authenticated Maintainer's own Objects (#1723)

  • Graceful Timeout in full text search (#1823)

  • Full text search results should be sorted alphabetically (#1720)

  • Implemented administrative status on RDAP lookup but not rir-search (yet) (#1778, #1730, #1722)

  • Remove HTTP status code from RDAP response "title" element. (#1777)

  • Wait maximum 10 minutes for a Zonemaster test to complete (#1712)

  • Run RIR Authoritative Resources Task Every Hour and Import Data Only When Updated (#1749)

  • fix(version-history): overcome 3xEOL in --list-verrsions response (#1815)

  • The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/changes.txt