rpki-client 9.9 has just been released and will be available in the
rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon. It is recommended
that all users upgrade to this version for improved reliability.

rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource
Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for Relying Parties to facilitate
validation of BGP announcements. The program queries the global RPKI
repository system and validates untrusted network inputs. The program
outputs validated ROA payloads, BGPsec Router keys, and ASPA payloads
in configuration formats suitable for OpenBGPD and BIRD, and supports
emitting CCR, CSV, and JSON for consumption by other routing stacks.

See RFC 6480 and RFC 6811 for a description of how RPKI and BGP Prefix
Origin Validation help secure the global Internet routing system.

rpki-client was primarily developed by Kristaps Dzonsons, Claudio Jeker,
Job Snijders, Theo Buehler, Theo de Raadt, and Sebastian Benoit as part
of the OpenBSD project.

This release includes the following changes to the previous release:

- Introduce a backoff retry mechanism for non-functional CAs, eventually
  settling on retrying broken CAs only once per day. Backoff helps reduce
  load on both the RP itself and the publication points. It reduces log
  clutter and improves RP run duration.

- Support for OpenSSL 4.

- Add additional fail safe: only output config files on successful run.

- In Rsync mode, include .gbr files in transfer for backwards compatibility.

- Exclude hidden files and directories ('/.*') when synchronizing via Rsync.
  From a report by Ben Cartwright-Cox.

- Limit the length of filenames as they appear in various ASN.1 fields
  to 255.

- Improve readability by printing CCR ManifestState sorted by AKI.

- Improve warnings related to malformed CCRs.

Reliability fixes:

- Limit the range of deltas added to the queue. Reported by Xin Wang.

- Rework error handling in rrdp_handle_file. Reported by Xin Wang.

- Ensure consistent states in persistent HTTP connections.
  Reported by Xin Wang.

- Tighten well-formedness checks on AIA & SIA extensions in certs.
  Reported by Ties de Kock.

- Clear last_modified after each response on a persistent HTTP connection.
  Reported by Ties de Kock.

- ASPAs with too many providers are no longer included in CCR output.
  Reported by Ties de Kock.

- Replace assert() with a graceful failure by aborting the http request.
  Reported by Frank Denis.

- Fix a off-by-one in the internal IP address overlap checker.
  Reported by Frank Denis.

rpki-client works on all operating systems with a libcrypto library
based on OpenSSL 1.1 or later, LibreSSL 3.6, a libtls library compatible
with LibreSSL 3.6 or later, expat and zlib.

rpki-client is known to compile and run on at least the following
operating systems: Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Red Hat,
Rocky, Ubuntu, macOS, and of course OpenBSD!

It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt
rpki-client-portable to more distributions.

The mirrors where rpki-client is available can be found on
https://www.rpki-client.org/portable.html

Reporting Bugs:
===============

General bugs may be reported to tech@openbsd.org

Portable bugs may be filed at
https://github.com/rpki-client/rpki-client-portable

We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.

Assistance to coordinate security issues is available via
security@rpki-client.org.