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