VPN status now updates in 8 seconds when tunnel is down
Posted by tomspark
SparkBox 1.5.60 ships with smarter polling for the VPN status banner. I noticed users were seeing stale "down" states for way too long — up to a minute in some cases — because the dashboard was checking /api/vpn/status only once per minute, no matter what. That's fixed now. The dashboard now polls every 30 seconds during normal operation, switches to every 8 seconds the moment it detects the tunnel is down (so recovery shows up fast), and also re-polls immediately when you switch back to the SparkBox tab. No more confusing "down" banners after a quick context switch. Head to the Updates tab in your dashboard to pull the latest version. If you hit any issues, just post in d/sparkbox. --- Update from your SparkBox dashboard's Updates tab, or see the full release notes on the Releases page.