[RPKI] Routinator 0.4.0 ‘Bumpy Road to Love’ released

[Martin Hoffmann]

Dear Mailing List,

we are euphoric to finally announce the latest release of Routinator,
version 0.4.0 ‘The Bumpy Road to Love.’

This release fundamentally changes the command line options for
running the server and introduces a new way to initialize the local RPKI
repository used by Routinator. If you have been using previous releases,
you will likely have to adjust your tooling. We apologize for this, but
we also feel that the new commands are more intuitive and logical.


Server Mode
-----------

The command for running the server (previously “rtrd”) is now called
“server”. It will not detach from the terminal anymore unless
explicitly instructed via the -d option.

When we added HTTP support, we intended it to be for monitoring only.
But it turned out that using HTTP is very useful for integrating
Routinator into existing work flows, so we now make HTTP a first class
protocol. Since this means that users may want to use the server mode
without RTR, Routinator will not listen on any ports by default any
more. Instead, you will have to explicitly choose the protocols,
addresses, and ports to listen on. The options for listening are now
more intuitive, too: --rtr for RTR and --http for HTTP. 


Initialization
--------------

Previously, Routinator automatically installed the TALs if the TAL
directory wasn’t present and then stopped because of the missing ARIN
TAL. This made it difficult to automatically install TALs in
deployments.

This release replaces the automatic mechanism with a manual procedure
that is invoked by the new “init” command. 

In addition, we have received permission by ARIN to include their TAL.
If you agree with the ARIN Relying Party Agreement, you can now instruct
Routinator to install all TALs without having to download anything.


Filtering of VRPs
-----------------

To make up for all these breaking changes, we added filtering of VRPs in
output both via the “vrps” command and in the HTTP output. Command
line options or HTTP query fields allow limiting the output to those
VRPs that cover a set of address prefixes or are related to a set of
ASNs.


As ever, you can read about all the changes in the complete release
notes at

   https://github.com/NLnetLabs/routinator/releases/tag/v0.4.0

The Routinator section in the RPKI Documentation has been updated to
reflect all the changes. You can find it at

   https://rpki.readthedocs.io/en/latest/routinator/index.html

Happy Routinating!

On behalf of the NLnet Labs RPKI Team,
Martin