# Announcements & Updates

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/announcements-updates/1933>\
**Category:** WeatherFlow PiConsole\
**Tags:** api, websocket, wfpiconsole, python\
**Created:** [August 26, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/announcements-updates/1933 "2018-08-26T19:06:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![peter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/peter/32/1365_2.png) [@peter](https://community.tempest.earth/u/peter)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/announcements-updates/1933/288 "2018-12-11T18:09:37Z")

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New release (v1.8) of the WeatherFlow PiConsole. Changes include:

- Update notification will now prompt users to download the latest version

For the update notification to work, a new Python module is required. Please run

`sudo python3 -m pip install packaging`

before using the new version. The update notification will check if a new version of the code is available once a day at midnight, and when the console is first run. The popup can be easily dismissed using the exit button in the top right, but will reappear the following midnight.

![Update](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sws/original/2X/6/6832c05e99ee0cf5ffe1c34e2745e80266c8b4b2.png)

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