<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>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the deployment of RIPE Database software release 1.78 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Please note that the previous release candidate, 1.77, was rolled back because of an issue with concurrent updates that only became apparent in the production environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Release 1.78 includes a fix for this issue. Extensive automated tests have been added to prevent similar issues from happening again. This release includes all features and fixes from release 1.77.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, release 1.78 of the RIPE Database software also includes a number of other improvements:</div><div> = We added a dry-run option for the REST API</div><div> = We improved the error message when creating an organisation object without and AUTO primary key<br><div> = Fix for Issue #286: Pending create route requests are not removed when the route is created</div></div><div><br></div><div><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-1.78">https://www.ripe.net/data-tools/db/release-notes/ripe-database-release-1.78</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 23 February.</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></div></body></html>