Dear working group, We have deployed release 1.84 to RC. This release was necessary to prepare for hardware upgrades of the whois infrastructure. Note that this release does not include the work for deprecating "changed:". This work will be part of release 1.85 that we plan to deploy to RC on 21 December, and to production on 1 February 2016. We needed to give precedence to this release, so that we will be able to upgrade the server infrastructure in January, while the release for "changed:" is still being evaluated in RC. Even though we plan to deploy 1.85 to RC on 21 December, we will only upgrade the server hardware and move to 1.84 in production in January. This upgrade does not include any API changes, however the hardware upgrade itself will involve a short outage of the RIPE DB updates. We want to do this operation after the end of year holidays when we are fully staffed, and will communicate a more detailed plan closer to the date. Please let us know if you have any concerns, comments or questions. Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Group