Newest patches: ripe-dbase.2.0.3 available

Dear all,

The latest release unexpectedly contained a serious flaw in the classless
database opening code. The problem was not found before putting things in
production due to a non-complete copy of one file into the test database
directory (my fault). The new database staff did some emergency measures
and consulted me on the phone (The moving company was just packing my
computers & modems ;-(). An older version was put back in production
which caused the reappearing of some (non fatal) bugs.

I want to apologize for the inconvenience this has caused although I hope
that you also have some understanding:

We were the last three weeks in the inconvenient position that we had to
put new code in production while not having the time for an appropriate
test period. Postponing the release was not a viable option since I was
leaving the RIPE NCC (In fact I already did two weeks ago...), the new
people first need some time to get up to speed, and I saw clear signs (in
the internals of the database) that we rather should handle fast then
slow with introducing the new software.

I have prepared a new bug fixed version that also fixes a few other
problems (including some older bugs that were already present in the
previous release). This version runs now since friday afternoon on our
production machine (note the subtle change in the config file: the 'av'
attribute added in the 'OBJ an ATSQ' line). The code is available from:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/ripe-dbase.2.0.3.tar.gz

Kind regards,

David K.
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