Dear colleagues, RIPE Database release 1.108 has been deployed to the Release Candidate environment. We plan to deploy to production on Wednesday 27th September. This release includes the following main changes: * NRTM: Use base64 instead of Hex * NRTM: JSON Text Sequences * RDAP: Add remarks * Update: Warn when http * Remove Lucene support * Elasticsearch do not rebuild from scratch * Elasticsearch use phrase without prefix due to bug * Elasticsearch scape colons * Jakarta / EE9 The release notes are on the website: https://apps.db.ripe.net/docs/Release-Notes/#ripe-database-release-1-108 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 Miguel Herrán RIPE NCC