<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the deployment of RIPE Database software release 1.77 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment.</div><div><br></div><div>This release includes:</div><div> = Business rules to support the 2012-07 policy</div><div> = A clear banner in the Release Candidate (RC) and Training web tools</div><div> = Internal code to support resiliency improvements</div><div> = Fixes for four infrequently occurring bugs</div><div><br></div><div>This release also includes the bug fix released earlier in 1.76.1:</div><div> = Incorrectly formatted blank lines in updates were crashing the NRTM service (issue #284)</div><div><br></div><div>This release does not introduce any major functional changes.</div><div><br></div><div>Detailed release notes are published on the web site:</div><div><a href="https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.77">https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.77</a></div><div><br></div><div>We invite all users of the RIPE Database to review the new release in the RC environment:</div><div><a href="https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/rc-release-candidate-environment">https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/rc-release-candidate-environment</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know if you find any issues. We plan to deploy this release to the production environment on Monday 26 January.</div><div><br></div><div>We look forward to any questions or comments you might have.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Tim Bruijnzeels</div></div><div><br></div><div>Assistant Manager Software Engineering</div><div>RIPE NCC</div></body></html>