RIPE Atlas Documentation

2015-01-20 - New UI features (Prophet) ​

  • The old measurement UI is now officially deprecated, the revamped new UI/API is now the default
  • Many pages have been re-stylised in preparation for a new visual layout

2015-01-28 - New UI features (Q) ​

  • Some fine tuning on the new measurement UI
  • Many internal improvements
  • Added a new banner to notify users about the upcoming new Terms & Conditions
  • Many pages have been re-stylised in preparation for a new visual layout
  • Allow searching in the probe API by using a geographical "bounding box"

2015-02-04 - New UI features and enhancements (Romulan) ​

  • More UI conversion for the upcoming layout changes
  • Added a feature to search for probes by "centre" and "distance" as filter
  • UDM UI documentation has been updated to match the new UI
  • Add the number of probes involved in a measurement to the measurement listing page
  • Enhanced the probe auto-geolocation feature and relevant UI bits

2015-02-11 - New UI features and enhancements (Son'a) ​

  • Many internal changes
  • It is now possible to select probes in the measurement specifications UI without using the interactive map ("new set - manual" in the probe selection section)
  • For ordinary users show IP and controller in list of connects
  • Be more verbose in warning on automatic geolocation or no geolocation at all, and asking the user for a real location

2015-03-04 - New UI features and enhancements (Vulcan) ​

2015-04-14 - UI changes (Yridian) ​

  • Major layout changes: switched to the new RIPE NCC UI design/layout
  • Fixed an issue on the probe deployment map where disconnected probes may have shown up as connected
  • Ambassadors can now mark their attendance at various conferences
  • Display the ASN name(s) in the probe status page
  • Fixed an issue where "today" was not available as a potential end time when downloading results
  • The "written off" status is now displayed in the probe status page, giving an indication to the viewer about potential issues
  • Fix dropdown and datepickers in API key generation page
  • Remove the 'port' field for non-TCP traceroutes
  • Disable the Target field for use-probe-resolver

2015-04-20 - UI changes (Zahl) ​

  • Major internal changes to accounting (credits) with minor UI related changes
  • Fixed a bug in probe selection by list of probe IDs
  • More alignment to the new house style
  • API call to get metadata of a measurement now appears in the measurement info page

2015-04-29 - UI changes (Aerith Gainsborough) ​

  • Change the page layout of the probe's built-in measurement tab to be responsive (i.e. behave better when the browser window is narrow)
  • NTP measurements have been added to the measurement UI
  • Many internal changes

2015-05-22 - New UI release (Bowser) ​

  • Deployed a whole new version for displaying all maps; now it includes hiding/showing of some results, better filtering and more
  • Fix for some cases where a statically specified DNS server would not be shown as such in the probe network config page
  • The "LIR IPv6 traces" function has been renewed; it includes IPv4 traces too
  • Added a page to documentation about built-in measurements
  • Improve documentation on result streaming

2015-05-27 - New UI release (Cloud Strife) ​

  • Added a table to the probe status page to show the results of the various probe IP discovery methods
  • Lots of small fixes and improvements to the maps
  • Added a human friendly view of traceroute results

2015-06-10 - New UI release (Donkey Kong) ​

  • Minor tweaks to the cost estimator in the measurement creation page
  • Fixed a couple of bugs in the new maps
  • Many internal optimisations to make the UI faster
  • Applied minor changes to the global page template
  • Documented the existence of system-ula and system-rfc1918 probe tags

2015-06-17 - New UI release (Ezio) ​

  • Various internal changes
  • Added region name suggestions when adding new measurements using manual probe selection
  • Fixed an issue when "LIR IPv6 connectivity test" failed in certain cases

2015-06-24 - New UI release (Fox McCloud) ​

  • Various internal changes
  • Added some new k-root anycast instance names
  • Added support for CD bit in DNS measurements

2015-06-29 - New UI release (GLaDOS) ​

  • Major internal changes to the measurement API (not visible to users)
  • Fixed a bug where the ASN/country filter did not work on the network coverage map
  • Make the "built-in measurements" tab of the public probes' status page visible for all users
  • Minor tweaks to the anchor list and the anchor-as-a-probe page
  • Change the colour scheme used for the maps to a more distinctive set

2015-07-08 - New UI release (Herman Toothrot) ​

  • Many internal changes for stability and scalability
  • Maps for DNS measurements have been extended to visualise RTT, answer and NSID diversity
  • Fixed some minor issues in the "probe down" notification settings
  • Fixed an issue which in some cases prevented DELETE/stop measurement from working (since GLaDOS)
  • NTP measurements now also have a useful map visualisation

2015-07-22 - New UI release (Jim Raynor) ​

  • Lots of internal changes as usual
  • Small enhancements to the section showing the probe's public IP address
  • Fixed a bug with possible redirection loops after login
  • Added a pagination limit to the measurement and probe APIs
  • Minor fixes with result maps not always showing correctly

2015-07-29 - New UI release (Kirby) ​

  • Fixed a corner case where measurements with no data plotted maps with all the probes and no colour.
  • Started enforcing a pagination limit in UI and API for probes and measurements
  • Do not show the seismograph for one-off pings
  • Show the network details of public probes in UI
  • Enabling gzip compression for the measurement API data downloads
  • Many internal changes mostly to prepare the way for new visualisations

2015-08-05 - New UI release (Lara Croft) ​

  • Major enhancements to visualisations of UDM measurements (see the maps for these measurements)
  • Show IPv4/IPv6 properties for UDMs consistently all across the site
  • Added "time travel" feature to UDM maps / probe listings
  • Lots of preparations for upcoming visualisations

2015-08-12 - New UI release (Mario) ​

  • Added an option to the measurement API to filter the list to "my measurements"
  • Added a "time travel" feature to virtually all maps of ongoing measurements to check the status of the map at a certain point in the past
  • DNS maps for UDMs now have multiple variations of result visualisations (RTT, SOA or answer)
  • Enabled HTTP measurements towards RIPE Atlas anchors

2015-08-19 - New UI release (Navi) ​

  • Added support for packet-interval for ping measurements
  • Probe API now allows filtering available probes by address family (af)
  • Upgrade ripe.atlas.sagan to 1.0.0
  • Show total number of probes on available maps
  • Fix for case where probes appeared twice in a probe API filter
  • Fix for grey markers appearing when filters are enabled on some maps
  • Fixed a visualisation bug in the credits history view where not all charts showed up

2015-08-26 - New UI release (Odahviing) ​

  • Probe uptime log entries are posted real-time now, there's no more delay in the UI
  • It is now possible to assign other individuals as co-hosts for a probe
  • Probes that are co-hosted by me ("shared with me") now show up on a separate tab in the probe list
  • Numerous internal changes for stability and scaleability
  • Fixed an issue map filtering only worked once per page load

2015-09-23 - New UI release (Samus, Ratchet, Princess Peach, Q*Bert) ​

  • Various fixes to LatencyMON
  • Document LatencyMON and expose it to more users
  • Update Sagan to 1.1.0
  • While doing time travel, show 100% packet loss with a distinct colour
  • Traceroute output has been revamped in various places throughout the UI
  • Various changes to ambassador pages
  • Quicklook has been switched to use data streaming for fetching results
  • Fixed a bug in the NTP maps where the time offset could be displayed wrong
  • More additions to the v2 APIs
  • Fixed a bug in the measurement archiver where the end time of measurements was recorded incorrectly

2015-09-30 - New UI release (Tifa Lockhart) ​

  • Preparations for "credit vouchers"
  • Changes to probe application procedures related to size of ASN of the host's network
  • Include RTTs and packet loss values in various map popups
  • Various minor bugfixes in time travel maps
  • Fixed a bug where prefix searches did not supply "more specific" results in probe and measurement APIs
  • Added a measurement interval "spread control" feature to the measurement forms
  • Lots of internal changes to keep up with version changes of the underlying web framework

2015-10-07 - New UI release (Umaro) ​

  • Minor fixes on DNS root instance maps
  • Fix a bug where probe tags were not suggested properly in the new measurement form
  • Expose built-in measurements in a separate tab in the measurement listing
  • Added more info to the measurement UI about the specification of the measurement
  • Credit archive download now supports fragmented JSON format
  • Fix an edge case where the traceroutes did time travel before history began
  • Various fixes to LatencyMON and its documentation

2015-10-27 - New UI release (Vaan, Wario, Xzar) ​

  • The UDM "region map" is now part of the documentation again
  • The measurement scheduler now recognises the existence of blacklists ("do not probe") and whitelists ("no restrictions on measuring"). You can let us know via email (to atlas@ripe.net) if you'd like to whitelist/blacklist your prefixes.
  • Various changes to the upcoming v2 APIs
  • Enable DNSMON tab for all DNS UDMs
  • Added an anchor quick-search feature to the "select probe IDs manually" form

2015-11-30 - New UI release (Yuna, Zelda) ​

  • Major internal changes due to web framework upgrade
  • Older roadmap entries are now available in the roadmap archive
  • Various usability fixes in measurement details, maps, LatencyMON and DomainMON

2015-12-09 - New UI release (Archangel) ​

  • Various usability fixes
  • Added an IPv4/IPv6 comparison page to all anchors, using LatencyMON. See this example
  • Various fixes in the simple traceroute UI layout (add DNS names, fix layout with late packets)
  • Added HTTP to the list of anchoring measurements
  • Add DomainMON to the menu

2015-12-16 - New UI release (Batman) ​

  • Fix a case where the number of reported number of currently responding probes could fluctuate as a function of time
  • Put watermarks on LatencyMON widgets
  • Minor fixes to DomainMON