Software Probe version 5130 released
Dear colleagues, We're happy to announce the release of the RIPE Atlas Software Probe, version 5130. This 5130 release contains the following main changes: - Fix NTP measurement offset (GH-130), a regression from the 5120 fix: it reported half the round-trip time instead of the clock offset - Move to new registration servers with ed25519 keys - Modernise the Debian apt repository (ripe-atlas-repo 1.6-1): deb822 .sources format and a Signed-By-scoped signing key, fixing the apt warnings on Debian 13 - Add the openwrt-hwprobe architecture as a common base for the next-generation hardware probe firmware - Measurement code - Add a minimum gap between NTP requests, 4000 ms by default (GH-114) - Send the NTP RIPE reference-id in network byte order, correcting it on big-endian architectures - Use the MAC address from the default-route interface - Use environment-specific SOS servers for SOS calls - Support both iproute2 and net-tools (reported by Paul Menzel, GH-147, GH-148) - Other - Change default SSH key pair algorithm to ed25519 - Pre-fill the probe's public key in the post-install registration URL - Fix RHEL and Debian packaging (dependencies, maintainer scripts, apt changelog) - Add libssl3t64 for Debian 13 (authored by Dreista, GH-139) - Fix the OpenWrt package build on 24.10 and 25.12 (GH-146) - Hardware probe fixes: boot from saved network configuration, reginit upgrade, update checksums - Fix typo in HTTP_POST_PORT configuration entry (authored by Firefishy/Grant, GH-141) - Wrap over-long help text in evtdig (authored by commodo/Alexandru Ardelean, GH-149) - Internal cleanups and CI changes Please note that NTP offsets reported by 5120 are incorrect. The reported round-trip time is unaffected. This is also the last release supporting Debian 11, given that its LTS will end on 31 August 2026. This release only applies to software probes. An update will be released for hardware probes once OpenWrt consolidation work is complete. The full release notes are available in the documentation: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/releases/firmware_index/5130 You can find more information and instructions on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe/ https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe/releases/tag/5130 Please let us know if you find any issues with this release. Kind regards, Trix Taiclet Embedded Systems Engineer @ RIPE Atlas RIPE NCC
Hi Trix, On 13.08.2026 11:39, Trix Taiclet wrote:
Dear colleagues,
We're happy to announce the release of the RIPE Atlas Software Probe, version 5130.
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would it be too much ask for to have an overview in any of such announcement emails that defines the latest SW version on per probe version. My V1 one (#197) is still alive and kickin' - but I wonder if it runs the most recent SW available for it. Thanks and best, -C.
Hi Carsten, On 13/08/2026 12:44, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
would it be too much ask for to have an overview in any of such announcement emails that defines the latest SW version on per probe version.
My V1 one (#197) is still alive and kickin' - but I wonder if it runs the most recent SW available for it.
That's a fair thing to bring up! This was also a topic of discussion when we released 5120, and occasionally pops up. These are the latest firmware versions as of now, per hardware probe version: Hardware probe | Latest firmware -------------------+----------------- v1 / v2 | 4790 v3 (TL-MR3020) | 5080 v4 (NanoPi-based) | 5080 v5 (MOX-based) | 5080 While we have changelogs in the docs for the firmware versions, they don't differentiate between hardware and software. We're a bit behind on hardware probe firmware releases compared to software probe versions. We're trying to roll out this "next-gen" firmware that'll make it much easier for us to release firmware updates in the future. I checked your probe, which seems to be #159 rather than #197, and it is on 4790, the latest firmware for v1/v2 probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/159/overview Hope this helps and clears things up :) Kind regards, Trix Taiclet Embedded Systems Engineer @ RIPE Atlas RIPE NCC
Hi Trix, On 13.08.2026 13:59, Trix Taiclet wrote:
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I checked your probe, which seems to be #159 rather than #197, [...]
<BLUSH>Highly likely, yes...</BLUSH> I tend to forget everything about it - it sits there and noiselessly does its work. ;-)
Hope this helps and clears things up :)
It did and does, indeed. One more thing™, though - how ow about adding this little piece of information: === Hardware probe | Latest firmware -------------------+----------------- v1 / v2 | 4790 v3 (TL-MR3020) | 5080 v4 (NanoPi-based) | 5080 v5 (MOX-based) | 5080 === as a kind of footer to all software announcements here? Like: === Subject: [atlas] Software Probe version 5130 released Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:39:06 +0200 From: Trix Taiclet <ttaiclet@ripe.net> Organization: RIPE NCC To: RIPE Atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> Dear colleagues, We're happy to announce the release of the RIPE Atlas Software Probe, version 5130. [...] Kind regards, Trix Taiclet Embedded Systems Engineer @ RIPE Atlas RIPE NCC Hardware probe | Latest firmware -------------------+----------------- v1 / v2 | 4790 v3 (TL-MR3020) | 5080 v4 (NanoPi-based) | 5080 v5 (MOX-based) | 5080 === Best - and have a good weekend, all! -C.
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