X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=getdown%2Fsrc%2Fgetdown%2FCHANGELOG.md;fp=getdown%2Fsrc%2Fgetdown%2FCHANGELOG.md;h=098651eb13d598060326b7eb58c3c5835cd1d728;hb=74393b51f368cb9f58589472d432a433d9c4386d;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=7a0d503181fe41452120a8a02ca63476392aa08c;p=jalview.git diff --git a/getdown/src/getdown/CHANGELOG.md b/getdown/src/getdown/CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..098651e --- /dev/null +++ b/getdown/src/getdown/CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +# Getdown Releases + +## 1.8.3 - Unreleased + +* Added support for `nresource` resources which must be jar files that contain native libraries. + Prior to launching the application, these resources will be unpacked and their contents added to + the `java.library.path` system property. + +* When the app is updated to require a new version of the JVM, that JVM will be downloaded and used + immediately during that app invocation (instead of one invocation later). Via PR#169. + +* When a custom JVM is installed, old JVM files will be deleted prior to unpacking the new JVM. Via + PR#170. + +* Number of concurrent downloads now defaults to num-cores minus one. Though downloads are I/O + bound rather than CPU bound, this still turns out to be a decent default. + +* Avoid checking for proxy config if `https.proxyHost` is set. This matches existing behavior when + `http.proxyHost` is set. + +* Added support for proxy authentication. A deployment must also use the + `com.threerings.getdown.spi.ProxyAuth` service provider interface to persist the proxy + credentials supplied by the user. Otherwise they will be requested every time Getdown runs, which + is not a viable user experience. + +## 1.8.2 - Nov 27, 2018 + +* Fixed a data corruption bug introduced at last minute into 1.8.1 release. Oops. + +## 1.8.1 - Nov 26, 2018 + +* If both an `appbase` and `appdir` are provided via some means (bootstrap properties file, system + property, etc.) and the app dir does not yet exist, Getdown will create it. + +* Added `max_concurrent_downloads` setting to `getdown.txt`. Controls what you would expect. + Defaults to two. + +* `bootstrap.properties` can now contain system properties which will be set prior to running + Getdown. They must be prefixed by `sys.`: for example `sys.silent = true` will set the `silent` + system property to `true`. + +* If Getdown is run in a headless JVM, it will avoid showing a UI but will attempt to install and + launch the application anyhow. Note that passing `-Dsilent` will override this behavior (because + in silent mode the default is only to install the app, not also launch it). + +* Fixed issue with `appid` not being properly used when specified via command line arg. + +* Fixed issue with running Getdown on single CPU systems (or virtual systems). It was attempting to + create a thread pool of size zero, which failed. + +* Fixed issue with backslashes (or other regular expression escape characters) in environment + variables being substituted into app arguments. + +## 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). + +[migrating from 1.7 to 1.8]: https://github.com/threerings/getdown/wiki/Migrate17to18