Release Notes¶

Overview of changes in software from preceding versions.

History

Version 2.38.1¶

Bugfixes

Enhancements

Server (fred-admin): change --zone_ns_add syntax – when entering multiple IP addresses, separate them with a space or repeat the argument (see Adding zone name servers)
Server: remove an obsolete database layer from back end
Mod-eppd, Server (fred-rifd): make disclosure policy and default disclose flags configurable, see also Considerations for upgrade to FRED 2.38
improve public requests – asynchronous processing with a command in fred-admin
continue porting to setuptools (doc2pdf, transproc)
continue porting to Python 3
PAIN Phase 1 – detach payment import and processing from FRED,
see also The Future of Payments & Invoices and Considerations for upgrade to FRED 2.38
- new Django application django-pain
  
  fred-pain: FRED plugin for PAIN
  
  payments-pain: Ginger plugin for PAIN (not released to the public)
- IDL: new Accounting interface
- Database: migrate bank_payment table to PAIN DB
- Server:
  
  fred-admin: remove --bank_import_xml command
  
  new daemon fred-accifd will handle registrar credit based on payments already processed with PAIN
  
  currently in transitional state - handles payment import call from PAIN because invoices are still managed with FRED
- Transproc:
  
  rename back-end command configuration variables
  
  call django-pain instead of fred-admin
- WebAdmin:
  
  remove Payments (move manual pairing to PAIN)
  
  change format for saving search filters

Bugfixes

Server (fred-admin): check that a domain has not been deleted yet before deleting it (using the command --object_delete_candidates with the argument --object_delete_spread_during_time used to log an error when attempting to delete a domain repeatedly)
Mod-eppd, Client: show extra-addr extension in the EPP greeting (<extURI>http://www.nic.cz/xml/epp/extra-addr-1.0</extURI>) when enabled in mod-eppd
- Client upgrade is necessary!
Server (fred-rifd): in sendauthinfo operations, check validity of the main email address of linked contacts; if there is no valid address in any of the linked contacts, end with the “2400 Command failed” error to signify that nothing will be sent

Bugfixes

Bugfixes

Bugfixes

Server: fixed sending of authinfo to multiple recipients when sending it to an email in the registry
Server: fixed separator escaping in CSV serializer

Enhancements

GDPR compliance – dealing with personal information
- EPP: server disclosure policy switched to hide by default (used to be show by default):
  
  changed greeting content: dcp/access/all -> dcp/access/none
  
  contact:info response displays disclosure settings with flag="1" (in reverse to previous versions)
  
  affected also behaviour of contact:create and contact:update
- added new public request types (requests for personal information) with a new web form, fred-admin procedure, filtering and resolving in Daphne, and an email template
- provided utility fred-disclose-flags-update for a custom reset of contact disclosure preference
- see also Considerations for upgrade to FRED 2.37
DB: improved email template for contact identification (included phone number)
WebWhois: removed some configuration options from the list of registrars (moved to CMS)
removed old IDL types in pyfco (affects WebWhois, RDAP, Daphne)
continuing preparations to port Python 2 code to Python 3

Bugfixes

Daphne: fixed returning zone access to a registrar from whom the access to this zone was taken away before
EPPClient: fixed interpretation of disclose flags in responses to contact:info to handle both the old and the new server disclosure policy

Bugfixes

Enhancements

Bugfixes

Enhancements

changes in the database schema concerning email storage – see How to migrate email data to FRED 2.35
- email stored unrendered to decrease mail_archive table size
- support for email template versioning
- email rendered only on demand (sending, inspecting details)
- newer minimum version of PostgreSQL required – see the System requirements
transproc allows to restrict payment downloads with dynamic date intervals
new fred-admin command (--create_expired_domain – re-register a domain for another owner and force the domain expired)
generation of historical record statements in Daphne

Bugfixes

Enhancements

transitioned to a newer C++ standard (C++14)
Registrars’ passwords stored as hashes
reimplemented object deletion (object types by name, spread during time argument)
reimplemented generation of poll messages
documentation updates (see record of changes)

Bugfixes

hotfix in payment transcript processing (added backslash escaping of some elements)
fixed database-level locking during some of the EPP operations

Enhancements

Bugfixes

corrected serverBlocked description in db
fixed error with null-byte-terminated public keys in cdnskey-scanner
fixed info_contact mailing address response extension in EPP (omit sp element completely when empty)
hotfix for EPP info_contact error when contact is serverBlocked