[db-wg] Whois Release 1.109

Dear colleagues,

RIPE Database release 1.109 has been deployed to the Release Candidate environment for testing. We plan to deploy to production on Monday 4th December.

The data in the RC environment is a dummified copy of production from 16th November.

This release has the following main changes:

* RDAP redaction (#1317)
* Removed organisation "e-mail" from RDAP to match Whois and added to redaction list (#1333)
* Removed geofeed prefix validation (#1326)
* Added HTTPS Support to Whois Backend (#1329)
* Support HTTP Basic authentication (#1342)
* Support HTTPS Client Certificate Authentication (#1343)
* Initialize NRTMv4 from command-line (JMX) (#1310)
* Use parallel stream to generate NRTMv4 snapshots more quickly (#1309)
* Include AS-SET in RIPE-NONAUTH dump (#1352)

The release notes are on the website:
https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/#ripe-database-release-1-109

More information on the Release Candidate environment can be found on our website:
https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/

Please let us know if you find any issues with this release in the RC environment.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC