Notifications about older software probe versions

RIPE Atlas
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Dear all, especially software probe hosts,

Many of you contribute to RIPE Atlas by running one or more software probes. Thank you for doing so!

In the case of software probes you, the host, are in control of the installation and upgrade process. We noticed that there are many probes that have been installed, but not upgraded over time.

We’d like to inform you that early next week we’ll activate a feature in the system where we’ll periodically remind software probe hosts with non-newest versions to upgrade their probes. We expect that at some point later we’ll also start enforcing the use of newer versions.

Please note that since we provide multiple binary releases, it’s also possible to set up automatic package updates for the popular platforms (Debian, RHEL, Raspberry). We’d recommend using this feature (in general, not necessarily just for the probe package).

You can find full upgrade instructions for the supported platforms at GitHub - RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe: Probe codebase of RIPE Atlas, a global network measuring Internet connectivity and reachability · GitHub

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Ahoy, I’m running Atlas Probe on Turris Omnia as provided by Turris team. Not finding any relevant information, so I think update will need to be provided by Turris developers.

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Indeed, the Turris release is made by them. I reached out to them too, but do let us know if you have the solution already! :slight_smile:

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Hi, I’m running Atlas Probe on an OpenWrt router. However, the package atlas-sw-probe is very outdated, and we can’t find any useful infomation. Maybe think update will need to be provided by OpenWrt developers.

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This Pull Request is being worked on (though quiet for last month):