[RPKI] Routinator 0.12.0 ‘Brutalism and Gardening’ released

[Martin Hoffmann]

Hi,

we are pleased to announce the latest release of Routinator, version
0.12.0 ‘Brutalism and Gardening.’

This release completely revamps the initialisation. After ARIN has
dropped their requirements to explicitly acknowledge their Relying
Party Agreement before using the ARIN TAL, the explicit "init"
command to install the TALs is not really necessary any more and has
been dropped. Instead, starting with this release, the TALs can be
selected through a number of command line or configuration file options.

By default, Routinator will now use the TALs of the five RIRs which are
included in the Routinator binary. This is what most networks using RPKI
want to use and means for them no initialization is necessary at all any
more. In particular, users of Docker images can now just run an image
without having to perform any additional steps.

Options exist to disable the use of these built-in TALs
(--no-rir-tals), select additional built-in TALs such as those of
test beds (--tal)) or read additional TAL files from a directory
(--extra-tals-dir).

Note that when installing Routinator 0.12.0 using a Debian or RPM
package you may get a warning saying "Package distributor has shipped
an updated version". This is because the --tal-dir option is
deprecated. Routinator will ignore this option, so keeping the current
file is fine.  

In addition, Routinator now provides much more detailed information why
an object was rejected and log the reason. This will make it easier to
debug issues.

As always, there a many additional improvements and fixes.
The full list of changes is available in the release notes at

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/routinator/releases/tag/v0.12.0.

On behalf of the NLnet Labs RPKI Team,
Martin