NLnetLabs/routinator v0.15.0-rc1

0.15.0-rc1

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Breaking changes

• Removed the rrdp-keep-responses feature. We suggest the use of an HTTP proxy such as mitmproxy instead. (#1055)

• Messages about issues with repositories and publication points are now logged separately and by default are only visible in the status HTTP server endpoints. The new log-repository-issues option can be used to have these messages also written to the log. ([#1054])

• Changed how server mode deals with broken or missing local exception files. Previously, Routinator would just stop updating until they are fixed, leading to updates being stalled if the operator misses the error messages. Now it will log a warning and keep using the previous set of local exceptions. When starting, it will exit with an error message if there are broken or missing local exception files. (#1060)

• Changed the RRDP timeouts: introduced a new config variable rrdp-read-timeout that provides a timeout for individual network operations (primarily: read from the server). Its default is 10 seconds. This timeout is also used for connecting of no specific value is given, significantly speeding up validation runs.

  In addition, the RRDP timeout was increased from 300 to 600 seconds to better deal with slow transmission of large snapshots of some repositories. (#1061)

New

• Added a quick initial run after starting the server which only uses stored data and aborts if any required data hasn’t been requested before to deal with configuration changes. This will shorten the wait time for an initial data set when restarting Routinator. (#1057)

• Added support for SLURM v2 as output format which includes ASPA payload. (#1021)

• Changed refresh behaviour to better cope with short-lived objects. By default, Routinator will now wait for the time defined by refresh even if objects expire earlier. The new min-refresh option can be used to specify a short minimum refresh time if objects expire before the refresh time. If this value is set to 0, the old behaviour is restored. (#1027)

• The order in which manifest entries are processed is now randomized. (#1041)

• Reduced the overhead of storing RRDP snapshot downloads, significantly improving the snapshot update times. (#1035)

• The dump command now prints the source directories of the data it dumps. (#1045)

• Added a --update-after option to the vrps subcommand that skips updating the local cache if the last successful validation run was known to be less than a given number of minutes ago. (#1049)

• Error responses for API-related HTTP endpoints now contain JSON bodies. ([#1050])

• The /validity HTTP server endpoint now accepts POST requests with a JSON body containing multiple routes to be checked all at once. (#1053)

• Better protect against corrupted stored publication points by double checking cached manifest properties against the actual manifest and discard the stored publication point if they mismatch.

  This fixes an issue where an accidentally or maliciously manipulated locally stored manifest could block update of a legitimate new manifest which was reported by Zizhi Shang, Zhechao Lin, Jiahao Cao, Yangyang Wang, Mingwei Xu of the Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace (INSC), Tsinghua University.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash if certain invalid character appear in a manifest file name by limiting the name to the rules defined in RFC9286. This issue was reported by Niklas Vogel of Goethe University Frankfurt and ATHENE. (rpki-rs#342)
• Re-implemented RRDP client metrics based on the much simpler model used by RTRTR to fix recurring errors in the metrics. (#1039)
• Changed the message logged when an RRDP update times out to actually say that. (#1052)

Other changes

• Improved performance of file system operations on validate subcommand. (#1043 by @kawaemon)
• Add package.homepage to Cargo.toml (#1024)
• Added building packages for RHEL 10 and Debian 13. (#1034, #1047)
• Added building packages for ARMv6 and ARM64 for Debian Bookworm. (#1036)
• Added additional restrictions to the systemd unit files used in the various binary packages. (#1056)
• Upgrades various dependencies. (#1004, #1005, #1006)