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Whois 1.123 Release
by Edward Shryane 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

Dear colleaguesm We have deployed Whois release 1.123 to the Release Candidate (RC) environment for testing. We plan to deploy to production on Wednesday 8th July. The Whois 1.123 release contains the following changes : * Fix version query encoding (port 43 should use latin-1 by default) and support charset flag with version flags * Improved resiliency to API keys backend failures and improved logging * Normalise decomposed Unicode in descr: or remarks: attributes * HTTP APIs use UTF-8 encoding by default * RDAP Relation Search uses domains not domain element The full list of changes can be found in the source repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/compare/e93028c...d75e67c The data in the Release Candidate environment is a dummified copy of production from 21st June. For more information about the Release Candidate environment : https://docs.db.ripe.net/Release-Notes#release-candidate-environment Please let us know if you find any issues with this release in the RC environment. Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC

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