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Getdown Releases

1.8.0 - Oct 19, 2018

  • Added support for manually specifying the thread pool size via -Dthread_pool_size. Also reduced the default thread pool size to num_cpus-1 from num_cpus.

  • Added support for bundling a bootstrap.properties file with the Getdown jar file, which can specify defaults for appdir, appbase and appid.

  • Added support for a host URL whitelist. Getdown can be custom built to refuse to operate with any URL that does not match the built-time-specified whitelist. See core/pom.xml for details.

  • Removed the obsolete support for running Getdown in a signed applet. Applets are no longer supported by any widely used browser.

  • Split the project into multiple Maven modules. See the notes on migrating from 1.7 to 1.8 for details.

  • A wide variety of small cleanups resulting from a security review generously performed by a prospective user. This includes various uses of deterministic locales and encodings instead of the platform default locale/encoding, in cases where platform/locale-specific behavior is not desired or needed.

  • Made use of appid fall back to main app class if no appid-specific class is specified.

  • Added support for marking resources as executable (via xresource).

  • Fixed issue where entire tracking URL was being URL encoded.

  • Changed translations to avoid the use of the term 'game'. Use 'app' instead.

1.7.1 - Jun 6, 2018

  • Made it possible to use appbase_domain with https URLs.

  • Fixed issue with undecorated splash window being unclosable if failures happen early in initialization process. (#57)

  • Added support for transparent splash window. (#92)

  • Fixed problem with unpacked code resources (ucode) and pack.gz files. (#95)

  • Changed default Java version regex to support new Java 9+ version formats. (#93)

  • Ensure correct signature algorithm is used for each version of digest files. (#91)

  • Use more robust delete in all cases where Getdown needs to delete files. This should fix issues with lingering files on Windows (where sometimes delete fails spuriously).

1.7.0 - Dec 12, 2017

  • Fixed issue with Digester thread pool not being shutdown. (#89)

  • Fixed resource unpacking, which was broken by earlier change introducing resource installation (downloading to _new files and then renaming into place). (#88)

  • The connect and read timeouts specified by system properties are now used for all the various connections made by Getdown.

  • Proxy detection now uses a 5 second connect/read timeout, to avoid stalling for a long time in certain problematic network conditions.

  • Getdown is now built against JDK 1.7 and requires JDK 1.7 (or newer) to run. Use the latest Getdown 1.6.x release if you need to support Java 1.6.

1.6.4 - Sep 17, 2017

  • digest.txt (and digest2.txt) computation now uses parallel jobs. Each resource to be verified is a single job and the jobs are doled out to a thread pool with #CPUs threads. This allows large builds to proceed faster as most dev machines have more than one core.

  • Resource verification is now performed in parallel (similar to the digest.txt computation, each resource is a job farmed out to a thread pool). For large installations on multi-core machines, this speeds up the verification phase of an installation or update.

  • Socket reads now have a 30 second default timeout. This can be changed by passing -Dread_timeout=N (where N is seconds) to the JVM running Getdown.

  • Fixed issue with failing to install a downloaded and validated _new file.

  • Added support for "strict comments". In this mode, Getdown only treats # as starting a comment if it appears in column zero. This allows # to occur on the right hand side of configuration values (like in file names). To enable, put strict_comments = true in your getdown.txt file.

1.6.3 - Apr 23, 2017

  • Fixed error parsing cache_retention_days. (#82)

  • Fixed error with new code cache. (9e23a426)

1.6.2 - Feb 12, 2017

  • Fixed issue with installing local JVM, caused by new resource installation process. (#78)

  • Local JVM now uses absolute path to avoid issues with cwd.

  • Added override_appbase system property. This enables a Getdown app that normally talks to some download server to be installed in such a way that it instead talks to some other download server.

1.6.1 - Feb 12, 2017

  • Fix issues with URL path encoding when downloading resources. (84af080b0)

  • Parsing digest.txt changed to allow = to appear in the filename. In getdown.txt we split on the first = because = never appears in a key but may appear in a value. But in digest.txt the format is filename = hash and = never appears in the hash but may appear in the filename, so there we want to split on the last = not the first.

  • Fixed bug with progress tracking and reporting. (256e0933)

  • Fix executable permissions on jspawnhelper. (#74)

1.6 - Nov 5, 2016

  • This release and all those before it are considered ancient history. Check the commit history for more details on what was in each of these releases.

1.0 - Sep 21, 2010

  • The first Maven release of Getdown.

0.1 - July 19, 2004

  • The first production use of Getdown (on https://www.puzzlepirates.com which is miraculously still operational as of 2018 when this changelog was created).