October 2026 - ripe-atlas - mailman.ripe.net

Probe SW updates
by Ernst J. Oud 23 Oct '26

23 Oct '26

L.S. I twice received the email that my SW probes need to be updated. They run 5040 and 5080. To my surprise however my only HW probe also runs 5080 and has also not (yet?) been updated automatically, implying that 5080 is still current? Updating some of my SW probes would mean a considerable effort since some run on hardware with memory constraints - not allowing an update of OpenWRT - or within docker for which the image has not been updated by the author yet. Is there any indication when support for 5040/5080 probes will be discontinued? Then I can plan the effort required. Met vriendelijke groet / Regards, Ernst J. Oud

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Request For Hardware Probe
by Ercan Yildiz 21 Oct '26

21 Oct '26

Hello All! I trust this message finds you well! I am looking to add some probes in the northern part of Cyprus and would like to get some hardware probes due to having to install this at friends and family's houses. Does anyone have spare hardware probes (In the UK ideally) for me to take with me to north Cyprus? Thank you in advance! Kind Regards Ercan

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OpenWRT probes?
by Phillip Remaker 20 Oct '26

20 Oct '26

I recently got a note to upgrade all of my software probes to 5130 from 5080. I found that the OpenWRT package version is still at 5080. I know it is community supported, but are there plans to update? Should I retire OpenWRT probes or are they still useful?

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RIPE Atlas UI updates for 2026-10-20
by Stephen Suess 20 Oct '26

20 Oct '26

Hello Atlas friends, We just released an update to the UI with some changes and fixes and a new use case: NEW: Anchor Mesh Status: This use case shows how latency and packet loss between RIPE Atlas anchors change over time, so you can see when a cable cut, power outage or other event affects connectivity between countries. You can check out the docs and use case here: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/tools-and-code/anchor-mesh-status https://atlas.ripe.net/use-cases/anchor-mesh-status/ CHANGES: Atlas will now detect your RIPE NCC Access SSO state and log you in/out automatically. Khipu responsiveness is improved for large measurements by only drawing labels when zoom level is large enough to see them. LatencyMON will now attempt to autoload historical data if the range is small enough. We've also made a number of other changes, fixes and tweaks. You can see the full list here: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/releases/website_index/2026-10-20 As always we would love to hear what you think and welcome any feedback. Kind regards, Stephen RIPE Atlas UI

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Request for credits for reachability research
by Дмитрий Воропаев 14 Oct '26

14 Oct '26

Hello everyone, I’d like to study how Internet censorship in several countries affects the reachability of my small infrastructure. I deployed my first RIPE Atlas software probe a few hours ago and plan to deploy more probes in the future. However, I haven’t received any credits yet and would like to run some initial ping and traceroute measurements. If anyone has some spare credits to share, I would really appreciate it. My RIPE Atlas account email is: voropaevdmtr(a)gmail.com Thank you! Best regards,

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Application for .atlas TLD
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 09 Oct '26

09 Oct '26

ICANN just published the list of applications for new TLDs and there is one, from Turkey, for .atlas: https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications/WYMG2568-T96993-R/summary

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monthly proble reports missing?
by Gert Doering 07 Oct '26

07 Oct '26

Hiya, I was looking forward to receive the "monthly probe reports" in text/plain e-mail format, but it seems what I got is "no HTML means no mail at all"... Is it just me? September 1st and October 1st saw "no mails"... Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: Dr. Frank Thiäner D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279

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Atlas Credit Request App: atlasrelay.org
by Trevor Goodyear 06 Oct '26

06 Oct '26

Hi all, Credit requests often appear on this mailing list. I've built Atlas Relay [0] as a small open-source site where researchers can post those requests so donors can find and fill them. - Researchers sign in with GitHub or Microsoft and post a project with a credit goal. They can update project details and post results as their measurements progress. - Donors transfer on atlas.ripe.net as usual, or paste a transfer-only API key that the site uses once and discards. This site isn't affiliated with the RIPE NCC. It's just a hobby project I've been tinkering with after reading this mailing list and being a probe host for a decade. Every transfer happens in RIPE Atlas, and the site never holds credits or stores keys. The code is at [1]. I'd welcome feedback, particularly around user experience and whether this helps researchers and donors. Looking forward to see who will be first! Trevor [0] https://atlasrelay.org [1] https://github.com/tgoodyear/atlasrelay

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RIPE Atlas UI updates for 2026-10-05
by Stephen Suess 05 Oct '26

05 Oct '26

Hello Atlas Community, We're pleased to announce another update to the RIPE Atlas UI, with some significant improvements: New landing page: We've redesigned the landing page that logged-out visitors see. It now explains RIPE Atlas and what it does more clearly, and it's more visual and inviting for new users. Performance improvements: Atlas now handles large datasets much faster. Large measurement maps and Khipu diagrams load more quickly and respond faster when you filter them. We've also made a number of other changes, fixes and tweaks. You can see the full list here: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/releases/website_index/2026-10-05 We'd love to hear what you think, so please share your feedback. Kind regards, Stephen RIPE Atlas UI

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Notifications about older software probe versions
by Robert Kisteleki 05 Oct '26

05 Oct '26

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 https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe#upgrading Regards, Robert Kisteleki, for the RIPE Atlas team

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