Early (beta) versions of the measurement REST API and the probe REST API are available now.
The credit model and the known bugs and limitations have better documentation now.
It is now possible to transfer a probe to another Atlas user. Keep in mind that if you transfer your probe to someone else, you give away control of the probe to the new host. Also, the probe will generate credits for the new host from then on. The only way to "get back" your probe is for the new host to transfer it back to you.
RIPE NCC members now get "suggestions" about their colleagues registered in RIPE Atlas, when transferring probes or credits.
RIPE NCC members can now get 1 million credits if they request it.
It's now easier for RIPE NCC members to apply for Atlas probes, starting from the LIR portal.
We've added a feature about warning users if they are likely run out of credits soon, as well as stopping measurements if users ran out of credits.
You can now define an API key to download results of all your measurements, not only a specific one.
Atlas anchors are now shown as potential targets when specifying a measurement.
We changed the RIPE Atlas website navigation to make it easier to access frequently used functions.
When transferring a probe, the system offers suggestions about your colleagues (within the same LIR, if you're a member).
You can now change your Single Sign-On email address using the RIPE Access control panel.
We added a community page with some interesting "probe locations".
From now on, we enforce the credit limits: we send warning emails if your credit balance is approaching zero and we begin to stop measurements if you run out of credits.
We introduced the v3 RIPE Atlas probe. The exact model is a TP-Link MR-3020 (3G/WiFi) router, with an additional USB stick, running our custom firmware - so it doesn't act as a router any more, only as a probe.
# 2013-04-26 - One-off measurements, APIs, more visualisations and increased quotas
You can now do "one-off measurements": these allow you to ask the system for a single run, quick measurement - you can expect results within seconds!
There's now two shiny new RESTful APIs: one for measurements and one for probes. These allow you to do scripted measurements and to get to the results without using the UI manually.
We introduced a customised "dashboard" as the opening page, if you're logged in and have some measurements or probes.
The "credit reporting" page has been restructured to give you simple visualisations aboutyour current credit status and the ability to see your credit history.
Latest ping measurement results are now shown in a neat bar chart layout, as well as a map layout,in order to provide an easy-to-understand overview.
We added a new map to show country coverage of Atlas probes.
It is now possible to share your probe with your LIR colleagues (provided that they are recognised members of the same LIR and they have visited RIPE Atlas before).
We've significantly increased the maximum number of measurements you can run in parallel, and the maximum number of probes you can involve in each measurement.
RIPE NCC members can now ask for "quick looks": one-off measurements, bundled with real-time visualiastion of the incoming results, without the need for Atlas credits!
We made changes to a significant portion of our infrastructure in order to increase the availability and stability of RIPE Atlas. This includes moving functionality to new servers, adding load-balancing capability and duplicating some components.
# 2013-09-05 - Seismograph, zoomable RTT graphs and more
The Seismograph is a new feature designed to visualise ongoing (ping) measurements. It's sensitive enough to show you otherwise invisible patterns and correlations between various probes.
Built-in ping measurements are now visualised based on an interactive, zoomable client-side widget; from now on you can explore your probe's history in full detail!
You can now execute measurements more often (i.e. the minimum wait time between measurement iterations can be set lower than before).
Downloading of results has a more fine-grained control: you can now download data with intervals of a second's granularity.
There's a new map available for RIPE Atlas ambassadors.
We've released a new probe firmware: 4550. Changes include:
Support for one-off SSLGetCert measurements
Reports response time of SSLGetCert measurements
ping now reports when the probe's clock was last found to be accurate
Change of one of our "registration servers" ("teyla" to "oneill")
Various enhancements to HTTP measurement reporting (anticipating that HTTP measurements may become publicly available in the future)
Report source address for ping measurement even when no reply is received
Small fixes to the DNS measurement and the one-off daemon
Fixed bug in UDP/IPv6 traceroute where it would not set the source port correctly
v3 probes: makes sure that no DHCP client remains running when a statically configured IPv4 address is used
v3 probes: enables compression on the communication channels towards the infrastructure. This should reduce the amount of network traffic needed for reporting results