[RPKI] Routinator 0.6.3 ‘That Escalated Fast’ released

[Martin Hoffmann]

Dear mailing list,

we are happy to announce the latest release of Routinator, version
0.6.3 ’That Escalated Fast.’

This release primarly fixes an issue where all RRDP requests would time
out in detached server mode, i.e., if server mode is invoked with the
"-d" option. Because Routinator only falls back to rsync if an RRDP
fetch for a given repository has never succeeded and otherwise uses the
data previously fetched (assuming that the RRDP failure was only of a
temporary nature), this caused the eventual loss of the RIPE and APNIC
regions’ ROAs if Routinator was ever run in a different way before.

But it is not all bleak news, there is a new feature, too. Veit Heller
kindly contributed code to make Routinator reload the TALs and restart
validation in server mode when signal USR1 is sent to it. This can be
used both to notify Routinator of a change in the set of TALs without
having to tear down all RTR sessions as well as kicking off a new
validation run before the refresh time has passed.

You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes at
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/routinator/releases/tag/v0.6.3

Happy Routinating!

On behalf of the NLnet Labs RPKI Team,
Martin