RIPE Atlas Documentation

2017-01-11 - New UI release (Pick of Destiny, Quark) ​

  • Internal changes for stability and scalability
  • Fix a bug that caused the list of prominent probes to be calculated incorrectly

2017-01-18 - New UI release (Rosetta Stone) ​

  • Important: the v1 APIs have been decommissioned. v2 is available for all use cases.
  • Preparation work on an upcoming "probe events" page
  • Many other internal changes

2017-02-01 - New UI release (Slayer Scythe, TARDIS) ​

  • Respond with 404 instead of 200 + error-in-JSON for the deprecated v1 APIs
  • Minor enhancements to anchors and ambassadors
  • Changes for decommissioned anchor list and various changes to the decommissioning procedure
  • Fix a bug where country of the probe did not reflect its geo-coordinates
  • Fix an issue where timetravel was not working when trying to parse 7000 range built-ins (connection and uptime events)

2017-03-01 - New UI release (Unichapel, Vera, Wabbajack, XV) ​

  • Minor fixes with probe country code notifications
  • Preparations for IPv4/IPv6 stability system tags
  • Internal application server changes
  • Updates to sponsorship terms&conditions
  • Added more DNS root measurements (30001, 30002)
  • Fix deprecated endTime in streaming API

2017-03-08 - New UI release (Yggdrasill, Zuberberg, Apollo) ​

  • Enabled traceroute visualisations for a test group
  • Added internal tasks for wifi opt-in
  • Preparations for probe diagnostics pages
  • Added a separate counter for connected anchors
  • The default behaviour on the coverage map is now to hide abandoned probes (all categories can be turned on/off)
  • TCP traceroute now accepts packet size of 0
  • Fixed an issue where anchor status pages would not load in case the system is running in "reduced data mode" (i.e. during maintenance periods)

2017-04-06 - New UI release (Black Star, Cloud 9) ​

  • Preliminary work on wifi opt-in feature
  • Major internal restructuring of the measurement API code
  • Updates to the DNS root-instances visualisation
  • Improve errors provided when asking for probes in invalid prefix/ASN and for DNS query argument validation

2017-04-12 - New UI release (Defiant) ​

  • Cleanups in the API documentations
  • Tweaks for the DNS root-server maps
  • A new tool called TraceMON is available now to visualise traceroute results
  • Minor fixes to some corner cases related to the recent internal changes

2017-05-17 - New UI release (Enterprise) ​

  • Update raw data struct docs to mention a bug in the code and clarify a type.
  • Added better certificate validation for wifi measurements
  • Some updates to the DNS root instance maps
  • Add a feature to send periodic reports to ambassadors

2017-06-15.md - New UI release (F-302, Galactica) ​

  • The measurement creation form has been reworked to make use of the API when submitting a new measurement request. This should also improve the user experience when working with this form.
  • Improved the error reporting in the API to make it easier to find out the cause of errors. See the documentation for more details.
  • The "probes" tab on the SSL/TLS certificate measurement result pages has been reworked to show more precise results about common name (CN) / subject alternative name (SAN) name checks as well as other minor additions.

2017-06-21 - New UI release (Heart of Gold) ​

  • Significant update on the web framework used behind the scenes for RIPE Atlas
  • Fixed a corner case in SSL/TLS parsing
  • Changed the IPv6 target address for B-root, one of the root DNS servers

2017-06-28 - New UI release (Inchon Velle, Jupiter 2) ​

  • Fixed an inconsistency where API key usage interfered with 404 URLs turning them into 403s
  • Fixed measurement cost gauge behaviour
  • Fixed a bug in the daily cost reporting on some measurement detail pages
  • Split the "anchoring measurements" into "anchor mesh" and "probe anchoring" and update all relevant pages accordingly

2017-07-12 - New UI release (Korolev) ​

  • Added support for "include probe ID" feature in ping measurement
  • Added support for "specify SNI option" in SSL/TLS measurements
  • Added support for setting the timeout in DNS measurements
  • Added support for DNS "macros" feature
  • Document that traceroute represents unrecognised ICMP error codes as integers
  • Improved reference docs for measurements/{pk}/latest

2017-08-02 - New UI release (Liberator, Moya) ​

  • Show current UTC time and UTC labels to make it clear to the user that they should be working in UTC
  • Various improvements to probe diagnostics
  • Various changes to anchor provisioning
  • Further work on anchor mesh split

2017-08-09 - New UI release (Nebuchadnezzar) ​

2017-08-16 - New UI release (Olympic Carrier) ​

  • Various tweaks on UI and API caching
  • Handle edge case for certain API exceptions
  • Don't attempt LatencyMON viz/routequake API for unsupported measurement types + improve LatencyMON performance for built-ins
  • Internal reshuffling of periodic tasks

2017-09-13 - New UI release (Prometheus) ​

  • Proper bookkeeping of anchoring measurements when an anchor is decommissioned
  • Document results JSON as of firmware 4750
  • Various fixes and improvements on the measurement listing and form interaction
  • Various enhances to ambassador notifications

2017-10-12 - New UI release (Quietly Confident, Rotarran) ​

  • Lots of changes to internal tasks
  • Minor changes and fixes to DNSMON
  • Added supporting calls for OpenIPMap

2017-11-08 - New UI release (Spaceball One, Talyn) ​

  • Add API endpoints for claiming member credits and listing eligibility of associated members
  • Add the new OpenIPMap service to the detail page of traceroute measurements
  • Fix behaviour of filter buttons on the probe coverage map
  • Fix result downloads where the "stop" may have been ignored

2017-12-14 - New UI release (UNSC Infinity, Voyager, White Star, X-301) ​

  • Various small bug fixes