Periocially check for up to date versions of weave.

.gitmodules

@@ -58,3 +58,12 @@
 [submodule "vendor/github.com/boltdb/bolt"]
 	path = vendor/github.com/boltdb/bolt
 	url = https://github.com/boltdb/bolt
+[submodule "vendor/github.com/weaveworks/go-checkpoint"]
+	path = vendor/github.com/weaveworks/go-checkpoint
+	url = https://github.com/weaveworks/go-checkpoint
+[submodule "vendor/github.com/certifi/gocertifi"]
+	path = vendor/github.com/certifi/gocertifi
+	url = https://github.com/certifi/gocertifi
+[submodule "vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp"]
+	path = vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp
+	url = http://github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp

README.md

@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ For installing weave on other platforms, follow the [integration guides](http://
 Weave respects the environment variable `DOCKER_HOST`, so you can run
 it locally to control a weave network on a remote host.
 
+Weave will periodically check with our servers to see if a new version is available. To disable this, run:
+
+```
+CHECKPOINT_DISABLE=true weave launch
+```
+
 ## Quick Start Screencast
 
 <a href="https://youtu.be/kihQCCT1ykE" alt="Click to watch the screencast" target="_blank">

prog/weaver/main.go

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 	"github.com/weaveworks/mesh"
 
+	"github.com/weaveworks/go-checkpoint"
 	. "github.com/weaveworks/weave/common"
 	"github.com/weaveworks/weave/common/docker"
 	"github.com/weaveworks/weave/db"
@@ -35,6 +36,32 @@ type dnsConfig struct {
 	EffectiveListenAddress string
 }
 
+const (
+	signatureFile      = "/etc/weave/signature"
+	versionCheckPeriod = 6 * time.Hour
+)
+
+func check() {
+	handleResponse := func(r *checkpoint.CheckResponse, err error) {
+		if err != nil {
+			Log.Printf("Error checking version: %v", err)
+		} else if r.Outdated {
+			Log.Printf("Weave version %s is available; please update at %s",
+				r.CurrentVersion, r.CurrentDownloadURL)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Start background version checking
+	params := checkpoint.CheckParams{
+		Product:       "weave-net",
+		Version:       version,
+		SignatureFile: signatureFile,
+	}
+	resp, err := checkpoint.Check(&params)
+	handleResponse(resp, err)
+	checkpoint.CheckInterval(&params, versionCheckPeriod, handleResponse)
+}
+
 func main() {
 	procs := runtime.NumCPU()
 	// packet sniffing can block an OS thread, so we need one thread
@@ -129,6 +156,8 @@ func main() {
 	Log.Println("Command line options:", options())
 	Log.Println("Command line peers:", peers)
 
+	go check()
+
 	if prof != "" {
 		p := *profile.CPUProfile
 		p.ProfilePath = prof

weave

@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ exec_remote() {
         -e DOCKER_CLIENT_ARGS \
         -e PROXY_HOST="$PROXY_HOST" \
         -e COVERAGE \
+        -e CHECKPOINT_DISABLE \
         $WEAVEEXEC_DOCKER_ARGS $EXEC_IMAGE --local "$@"
 }
 
@@ -1592,6 +1593,8 @@ launch_router() {
     ROUTER_CONTAINER=$(docker run --name=$CONTAINER_NAME \
         -d --privileged --net=host $(docker_sock_options) \
         -e WEAVE_PASSWORD \
+        -e CHECKPOINT_DISABLE \
+        -v /etc/weave:/etc/weave \
         $WEAVE_DOCKER_ARGS $IMAGE $COVERAGE_ARGS \
         --port $CONTAINER_PORT --name "$PEERNAME" --nickname "$(hostname)" \
         $(router_opts_$BRIDGE_TYPE) \