Spokes Update v1.4.2

Published at April 23, 2023 ·  3 min read

We’re pleased to announce Spokes v1.4.2. This is a small release that fixes some bugs introduced in v1.4.1 and provide some new maintenance functionality requested by users. Connection Metrics Cleanup The connection metrics database can grow to a significant size over time and begin to consume too much disk space on the host system. We’ve added a new clean up command spokes clean conn-metrics that will remove all recorded metrics that are older than 60 days....

Packetriot Updates & Network Migration

Published at April 6, 2023 ·  5 min read

We’ve been busy working on the network server migration for Packetriot. This would transition our fleet of servers from running our original server, Hubs, and run Spokes in its place. We first mentioned this activity in our tweet in late January. Our focus then was transitioning from a custom-built subscription management system to a customer portal managed by Stripe. This was completed two months ago and had few bumps in the road....

Spokes v1.4.1

Published at April 3, 2023 ·  5 min read

We’re pleased to announce Spokes v1.4.1! This release introduces new features, improvements, and fixes to user-reported issues. Installing the Update Spokes can be updated using dnf or yum if the repositories have been set up. A manual update can be performed as well by downloading v1.4.1 from our site to the host running Spokes and running this command: [user@host ] sudo rpm -Uvh spokes-1.4.1-1.x86_64.rpm If you’ve created your Spokes server with v1....

Spokes v1.4.0

Published at January 14, 2023 ·  8 min read

We’re pleased to announce Spokes v1.4.0! This release introduces new features, improvements, and fixes to user-reported issues. Configuration Defaults We removed the need to include the database property in the configuration. Since we use SQLite for our database and use the dataPath property is used to identify where all application data is stored, we just use that path as the root path for the database. Older configurations that still use the database property are unaffected....