[ixpmanager] [RELEASE] V5.0.0 - RPKI, frontend refresh and a dedication to a friend

[Barry O'Donovan]

[copy of email just sent to -announce, apologies for cross posting]

Welcome, finally, to the release of IXP Manager v5. Thanks for your 
patience to date - this is a BIG release! You are going to need about 
four hours to work through everything properly - so probably get a few 
☕️'s before you hit the 🍻.

The official release notes and upgrade instructions are here (links 
missing in the content below are also active on the official details):

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/releases/tag/v5.0.0

Dedication
==========

IXP Manager 5.0 is dedicated to the memory of Barry Rhodes, who died in 
September 2018 and was Chief Executive of INEX for 15 years.

In 2005, IXP Manager was first envisioned and created by the INEX 
operations team, Nick Hilliard and Barry O'Donovan, to provide a robust 
and scalable management platform to run INEX's internet exchange in 
Dublin. Barry Rhodes put his full support behind the project, which 
enabled the code to be developed to the point that it could be 
open-sourced and released to the community. Today, more than 70 IXPs use 
IXP Manager as their management platform.

The INEX team are proud to honour Barry Rhodes' legacy by dedicating 
this significant release to his memory.


Release Summary
===============

$ git --no-pager diff --shortstat release-v4 release-v5
  970 files changed, 79020 insertions(+), 87488 deletions(-)

A brief summery of the biggest changes in IXP Manager v5 include:

* Bird v2 support for route servers, route collectors and AS112 services 
(AS112 not used in production at INEX yet).

* RPKI support for Bird2! We have also updating the route server 
filtering mechanism - to fully understand RPKI and the updated filtering 
mechanism with IXP Manager is to watch our presentation from APRICOT 
2019 or read this article on INEX's website.

* The looking glass has been overhauled from a look and feel 
perspective. Also, when using Bird v2 it will now also show filtered 
routes and the reason for filtering.

* The Route Server Prefix Analysis tool has been deprecated (but not 
removed). It has been replaced with a new tool that queries all Bird v2 
route servers live to give a complete and accurate report on filtered 
prefixes.

* Laravel framework upgraded from 5.5 to 5.8.

* Bower as a frontend package management system has been replaced with 
Yarn and Laravel Mix. What this means is that the frontend assets ship 
with IXP Manager and no action required from you anymore!

* Bootstrap frontend upgraded to v4.3 (from 3.x) and TailwindCSS added. 
There are still some rough edges but these will get sanded and smoothed 
over the coming weeks and months.


  - Barry, Nick and Yann



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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan