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The current version of NRPE is 3.0.1. It was released on September 8, 2016.

Two security holes have been closed
Improvements to signal handling so the program is more stable
Fixes to several issues that could cause the program to crash, or not start up
Fixes to "allowed_hosts" processing problems
check_nrpe can now use an optional config file
Can now handle packet sizes of up to 64KB
Can specify a larger payload size when talking to NSClient++
Increased the key size for Diffie-Hellman encryption
Will now use public-key encryption by default if available
Can now specify minimum SSL/TLS version
Can now check and/or require client certificates
make install commands expanded to be able to create users and groups
Should now configure, compile, install and run on many more systems, including most Linux distributions, BSD, OS X, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris
The -t <seconds>:<status> format used by most other plugins can now be used by check_nrpe also
Lots of bug fixes

Um, you're on the NRPE GitHub page, so you should be able to find it. Oh, alright -- You can download a zip version or a tar.gz version

NRPE is written for Unix-like systems. It should configure, compile, install and run with little or no trouble on:

In most cases, simply do:

./configure
make all
make install-groups-users
make install
make install-config
make install-init

The last one can also be make install-inetd to run it on-demand.

The best place for help is in the Nagios core support forum or the plugins forum

There are also some Knowledge Base articles in the NRPE category. In particular, check out: