[atlas] Encouraging people to upgrade software probe versions

I have to check but I believe the CentOS version does automatically upgrade. Pretty sure it did with my CentOS probe running on VMware on Windows. It ran 5070 when I installed it, it now runs 5080. I did not re-install it or did anything else.

Regards,

Ernst J. Oud

> On 7 Jan 2023, at 06:03, Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently posted two threads ultimately related to the same question,
> where it turned out that a feature I wanted to use was present in the
> current software probe release, but not in the old version that I had
> installed.  It was indeed relatively easy to upgrade (as a reply on
> this list predicted, the upgrade didn't break anything or require any
> reconfiguration).
> 
> But I'd still say "relatively easy", because, on the other hand, the
> upgrade wasn't managed through my OS package manager like the rest of
> the software on my VPS server.
> 
> It appears to me that a lot of software probes (like mine was until
> recently!) are still running whichever software probe version was
> current when they were first deployed.  After all, I don't believe
> there's automatic software upgrade functionality in the methods that
> most people are using to deploy these.
> 
> Is that true from the point of view of the rest of the Atlas community?
> Is there anything that might usefully be done to encourage people to
> upgrade periodically?  (For example, either sending some kind of e-mail
> reminder, or distributing probe software via OS package managers, or
> even including a mechanism in the probe client itself by which it could
> upgrade itself -- even if as an opt-in feature?)
> 
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