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Release of probe firmware 5130 ​

In this release, we fix a NTP offset regression introduced in 5120, move to new registration servers with ed25519 keys, and add the openwrt-hwprobe architecture for the next-generation hardware probe firmware.

The following is a complete list of the changes:

  • All platforms

    • Fix NTP measurement offset: a regression from the 5120 fix, it reported half the round-trip time instead of the clock offset. The RFC 5905 offset and delay are now computed in 64-bit fixed point, giving correct values for positive and negative offsets (GH-130)
    • NTP: add a minimum gap between requests (default 4000 ms, bounds 2000-60000 ms) to rate-limit multi-packet measurements; the gap is skipped when replaying recorded responses (as used by the test suite) (GH-114)
    • NTP: send the "RIPE" reference-id in network byte order so it is correct on big-endian as well as little-endian architectures
    • NTP: remove dead code and a duplicate definition
    • Fix get_ether_addr() selecting a non-default interface (for example a bridge or docker interface): the MAC of the default-route interface is now used, read directly from the kernel (/proc, /sys) so it no longer depends on iproute2 or net-tools
    • Also support iproute2 (ip) for interface listing, with net-tools (ifconfig) as a fallback, so probes work with either one installed (reported by Paul Menzel, GH-147, GH-148)
    • Use environment-specific SOS servers for SOS calls (used by non-functional probes, or as basic login measurement)
    • Fix unknown architectures causing registration bugs
    • Remove unused architectures and files (debian-sw-probe, turris-sw-probe, stale Dockerfile)

  • Hardware Probes

    • Addition of the openwrt-hwprobe architecture, allowing for the next-generation firmware on existing hardware probes
    • Next-generation firmware uses a common base instead of a split-base approach
    • Easier debugging of update files with additional checksum printing
    • Fix bug in reginit for APP upgrade
    • Parse the saved static network configuration (the atlasinit-generated netconfig files), so a hardware probe can boot without a reginit reply

  • Software Probes

    • Change default SSH key pair algo to ed25519 for Debian and EL
    • Include the probe's public key in the registration URL shown after installation, so it is pre-filled when registering
    • Improve the post-install registration information: clearer and color text
    • Update probe registration links from apply -> register
    • Update the registration servers for dev, test and production, with ed25519 keys
    • Depend on iproute2 OR net-tools for the official packages
    • OpenWrt: fix the openwrt/ package build (Build/Prepare) failing on OpenWrt 24.10/25.12 (GH-146)
    • OpenWrt: mark the probe, hwprobe and anchor packages as conflicting again, only one can be installed
    • RHEL: add libcap as an explicit dependency
    • RHEL: apply the systemd build dependency to all EL versions (previously EL7/EL8 only) and correct the EL8+ spec dependencies
    • Replace the RHEL spec rpm build commands with modern rpm macros
    • OpenWrt: don't reset the mode, config file and registration servers on every service start, only when the configuration changes
    • Add libssl3t64 for Debian 13 (authored by Dreista)
    • Improve the Debian maintainer scripts: detect systemd gracefully and only call systemctl when systemd is in use, drop hardcoded paths (systemd-sysusers), and detect Debian 12+ instead of 12
    • Fix the changelog in the Debian packages being trimmed on Debian 12+, which broke apt changelog
    • Update the uploaders in the Debian package control files

  • CI

    • Add basic testing of package installation
    • Add a probe-busybox testsuite job and a manual build job, and rename the lint stage to test

  • Other

    • Fix typo in HTTP_POST_PORT configuration entry (authored by Grant Slater)
    • Wrap the over-long FEATURE_EVTDIG_DEBUG help line in evtdig (authored by Alexandru Ardelean)
    • Fix a missing header include in scripts/echo.c
    • Clarify the anchor package purpose in BUILD.md