Getdown Releases

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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