What's new in Appupdater 2.3 Rev. 1126
Sep 24, 2018
- GPG updated to 2.0.30
- Changed to pymetalink library source
- PyQt updated to 4.11.4
- Updated with 2016 PGP key
- Fix for bug #139, #140
- Portable Version no longer supported due to external dependencies on GPG4Win and Microsoft Redistributables
- Installer now prompts user to download GPG4Win installer if missing
New in Appupdater 2.1 Rev. 1069 (Jan 6, 2014)
- Supports x64 registry views
- Created two distinct modes, user and system (administrator)
- GPG updated
- fix for Disabling auto_key causes error ID: 3612146
- Fix for bug ID: 3590776 Crash when socket hangs with proxy
- Fix for bug ID: 120
New in Appupdater 2.0 (Oct 17, 2012)
- "Run" command added
- 64 bit repository support added
- Gpg4win version updated to 2.1.1 Beta (Vanilla) - GPG 2.0.19
- Fix for bug ID: 3427249, global name 'sys' is not defined
- Other various bug fixes
New in Appupdater 1.5 (Jul 18, 2011)
- Moved to Python 2.6
- Use CTRL to select multiple applications for installation
- Improved proxy support
- Various bugfixes
- Fixed GPG dependency such that it is truly optional (for portable install)
New in Appupdater 1.4.2 (Dec 22, 2010)
- Installer only fix for when upgrading from older versions
New in Appupdater 1.4.1 (Jun 2, 2010)
- Bugfix for Windows service from the command line
- Added command line option to output debug information
- Added system Configuration Information dialog to GUI tools menu
- Fixed bug for when SOCKS proxy is defined
- Vulnerability fix from Metalink Checker library
- Service now skips packages when no silent install commands are defined
New in Appupdater 1.4 (Jun 2, 2010)
- Now runs as administrator by default from Start Menu, current user option available
- New option to ignore certain directories when scanning for installed versions
- Windows service fixes
- Improved crash reporting
- Added GUI notification for when newest version is not available as a silent install
- Experimental PortableApps.com format release
- Installer now properly sets permissions on shared download directory
- Installer now acts properly and prompts for repositories when offline
- Installer now has a portable install option
- UPX compression for smaller installed size
- Improved output for Window service
- Removed redundant code
- Upgraded Metalink Checker download library (added support for new Metalink format defined in RFC 5854)
- Numerous other minor fixes
New in Appupdater 1.3.1 (Nov 5, 2009)
- Updated build requirements to newest versions of dependencies
- Fixed installer bug where data storage directory %APPDATA%Appupdater isn't created
- Fixed installer bug where tray icon is not killed
- Fixed Service bug on Windows XP where is uses its own (incorrect) cache directory
New in Appupdater 1.2.1 (May 28, 2009)
- Various bugfixes for version 1.2
- Appupdateri fix
- Unicode filesystem character handling fixes
- Proper handling of key expiration
New in Appupdater 1.2 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Fixed service crashing bugs and logfiles from 1.0.1
- Fixed MemoryErrors with XML parser
- Allow for relative tag in apps.xml
- Now displays error when repository download fails
- Options dialog broken into more tabs, now fits on 800x600 screen
New in Appupdater 1.1 Beta (Apr 22, 2009)
- unicode not handling ~ characters properly
- Allow both --update and another command together for command line
- proper Vista UAC handling in GUI
- New installer code (portable mode)
- uses xml.parsers.expat for better memory usage (1/3), faster parsing
- better data structures (file metadata, URL metadata, metalink info)
- cancel enabled for long running processes
- added search to command line
- implement groups in XML
- implemented groups in command line
- install GPG registry-less when requested
- decodes PGP keys instead of just showing the URL
- daemon manages logfile size limit
- fixed why Windows service was crashing
- command line integration with CVE database
- download all, install all, buttons disabled when no updates available
New in Appupdater 1.0.1 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Fixed error with Windows service where it would crash on start
- Other minor bugfixes
New in Appupdater 1.0 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Various bug fixes from version 0.9 Beta
New in Appupdater 0.9 (Apr 22, 2009)
- add --dryrun mode to show commands for security
- common install variable replacement call
- added suggest tag support
- bugfix for PACKAGE_LISTS
- add appupdater version number to browser request string
- set file permissions for all users to write in programdata
- language support
- remove tray icon from install for now
- new GUI in PyQt
- overhaul of Tk GUI
- New and improved metalink codebase from Metalink Checker
- Basic XML file signature support (GPG)
- moved feedback to apps.xml for security reasons, not really needed at version level
New in Appupdater 0.8.2 (Jan 3, 2008)
- Fixed bug when installing dependency is required
- Bugfix for when program crashes on NULL character extracted from registry
- Installer fixes, removed redundant start menu settings. Fixed run command if checked at finish
New in Appupdater 0.5 (Jul 5, 2007)
- Fixes for when unzipping files is required
- Now supports external command line metalink programs
- Added quick search option
- Full Vista support
- Added support for dependencies
- Added timeout for hung processes
- Reads upgrade tag from metalink file