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A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
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Snap of Zerotier in Ubuntu store is WAY out of date (almost a year) #2158

Open Danathar opened 10 months ago

Danathar commented 10 months ago

I was going to intall the snap of zerotier from the Ubuntu store, but when I saw the version (below) I'm wondering if it's wise to do do. It says it hasn't been updated since November of last year.

What is the timeline for updating this? Any time soon?

thanks

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name: zerotier summary: Securely connect any device, anywhere. publisher: ZeroTier store-url: https://snapcraft.io/zerotier contact: contact@zerotier.com license: BUSL-1.1 description: |

ZeroTier is a software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth. Use it to connect your desktop clients, servers, phones, NAS, or even individual applications (using our SDK).

This snap contains ZeroTier One, a service that provides ZeroTier network connectivity and makes joining virtual networks as easy as joining IRC or Slack channels. Apps for Android and iOS are available for free in the Google Play and Apple app stores.

ZeroTier eliminates the LAN/WAN distinction and makes VPNs, tunnels, proxies, and other kludges arising from the inflexible nature of physical networks obsolete. Everything is encrypted end-to-end and traffic takes the most direct (peer to peer) path available.

Install (be sure to use sudo)

sudo snap install zerotier

Join your network

sudo zerotier join <nwid>
sudo zerotier status

Approve your new node in ZeroTier Central (https://my.zerotier.com)! Welcome online! snap-id: 8zXZvlnHZONCfPYZY2ns9Rmo5jTCFbQQ channels: latest/stable: 1.10.2 2022-11-09 (192) 884kB - latest/candidate: 1.10.2 2022-11-09 (192) 884kB - latest/beta: 1.10.2 2022-11-09 (192) 884kB - latest/edge: 1.10.2 2022-11-09 (192) 884kB -

archerallstars commented 5 months ago

According to this post from zt-joseph:

Snap is maintained but intentionally delayed a bit and may skip versions since it forces auto-updates on people that may not be aware of that behavior. We’ll be skipping a few problematic versions and likely updating the package for the next release.

Is this still the case?

I am going to install the snap version on my openSUSE Tumbleweed home lab server. This seems to be the easiest way to install ZeroTier.