Changelog

v4.0 - Master

* This version is not yet released and is under active development.

Added

• Client
  • Added rename update strategy. Windows Only
  • Support generic headers and HTTP timeouts

Updated

• Core
  • Named logger for pyupdater

Fixed

• Client
  • Attempt to attach to root logger
  • Using custom downloader
  • Max download retries not set for manifest & key files
  • Content decoding

Removed

• Python 2
• Logging http headers

v3.1.1 - 2019/06/11

Fixed

• Client
  • Patch updates

v3.1.0 - 2019/06/10

Added

• PyUpdater

  • Support for bz2 archive format
  • Support for splitting version manifest by platform
  • Support for servers other than directory listing like Github Releases & Bintray. See Usage | Client | Advanced and Create Upload Plugins

• CLI

  • Ability to specify archive format
  • pkg --sign --split-version
  • Used with CI/CD

Fixed

• Client
  • Saving the version manifest to disk for offline updates
  • Basic Auth
  • Updating on systems with unicode paths: PY2

Removed

• PyUpdater
  • Work around to support generating keys on Windows Python 64bit.
    • python-ed25519 1.5 fixed the issue

v3.0.1 - 2019/05/05

Fixed

• CLI
  • Uploading from deploy folder

v3.0.0 - 2019/05/04

Added

• CLI

  • Suppresses pyinstaller build logging by default
  • Enabled with --pyinstaller-log-info

• Client

  • Ability to elevate privileges on windows
  • Patch support for alpha and beta channels

Updated

• Client
  • AppUpdate.download(async=True) is now AppUpdate.download(background=True)
  • LibUpdate.download(async=True) is now LibUpdate.download(background=True)

Fixed

• CLI
  • Out of memory error on windows
  • Redundant logging to console
  • Handling symlinks within Mac.app

v2.5.3 - 2018/03/30

Fixed

• Deployment issue

v2.5.2 - 2018/03/30

Fixed

• Client
  • Headers printed to console
  • FileNotFoundError
  • More informative error for progress_hooks containers
  • Update failures on chinese version of windows

v2.5.1 - 2017/11/24

Fixed

• Client
  • Removal of applications other than the one being updated (mac)

Updated

• Client
  • Remove old archives in background thread

v2.5.0 - 2017/09/30

Added

• Client

  • Basic Auth

• Docs

  • Helpful Esky migration tips

• PyUpdater

  • Pyinstaller onedir support

• Tests

  • Python 3.6

Updated

• Docs
  • API
  • Plugin creation
  • Repository Layout

Removed

• Docs

  • Gitter Link

• Tests

  • Python 3.3

v2.4.1 - 2017/09/18

Fixed

• CLI
  • Fix command detection @jameshilliard

v2.4.0 - 2017/09/17

Added

• Client

  • Ability to specify a custom folder for update files. @mayli

• PyUpdater

  • Arm support

Updated

• Client

  • Faster & more efficient downloads. @mayli
  • Error messages on expected errors

• Docs

  • Code example

• Libs

  • appdirs 1.4.3
  • urllib3 1.22
  • six 1.11.0

Fixed

• CLI

  • Saving config changes when keypack isn't imported.

• PyUpdater

  • Failing test @jameshilliard

Removed

• PyUpdater
  • Unused code
  • Flaky tests

v2.3.2 - 2017/02/04

Fixed

• CLI
  • Calling certain commands

v2.3.1 - 2017/02/04

Fixed

• CLI
  • Creating keypack.pyu files for new users

v2.3.0 - 2017/01/29

Updated

• Client

  • Added option to update_check which allows for being less restrictive about looking on the specific channel for updates. The default setting is to only allow from the provided channel.

• Libs

  • certifi 2016.9.26
  • dsdev-utils 0.9.6
  • urllib3 1.20

Fixed

• Client
  • Restart - Linux & Mac
• CLI
  • MemoryError - Windows Python 3.5 64bit
• PyUpdater
  • Parsing a pre-release format

Removed

• Extra Y/N prompt before keypack creation
• Unused code

v2.2.0 - 2016/10/29

Added

• Client

  • version attribute on update object is a version string in a human readable format.

• Docs

  • API

Updated

• Docs
  • Usage | CLI
• Libs
  • dsdev-utils 0.9.2
  • requests 1.18.1

Fixed

• Client
  • Remove all files used to auto-update after application update - win
  • Restart GUI applications on Mac & Linux

Removed

• Client
  • Writing debug log -- @cbenhagen
  • Unused code

v2.1.7 - 2016/09/30

Updated

• Docs
  • Added note about signing

Fixed

• Deploy error

v2.1.6 - 2016/09/30

Fixed

• Deploy script

v2.1.5 - 2016/09/29

Added

• Tests
  • Auto update
  • One dir support - currently disabled
  • pytest-datadir

Updated

• Client
  • No longer importing unused functions
• Docs
  • Page titles
  • Install instructions
• Libs
  • versioneer 0.17
  • urllib3 1.18
• Tests
  • To coincide with the refactoring of some modules

Fixed

• CLI
  • Writing public key to client config
  • Uploading of debug logs
  • version output -- @cbenhagen

v2.1.4 - 2016/09/06

Updated

• Client
  • Percent complete shows up to 1 decimal
• Core
  • More efficient deltas. (A small internal app now has a patch size of 2kb, down from 1.4mb.)
• Docs
  • Add missing commands
• Libs
  • urllib3 1.17

Removed

• CLI
  • requirement of --target-name on archive command
• Client
  • bsdiff python implementation (slower & no longer used)
• Core
  • Extended pause after uploading
  • Redundant compatibility code

Deprecated

• CLI
  • Unused flags for make-spec command

v2.1.3 - 2016/08/19

Added

• CLI
  • Ability to set max download retries. 1-10
• Tests
  • Auto update

Fixed

• Docs
  • Links on Install page - @LucaBernstein
  • Only log debug
• Encoding URL's
• Usage on 64bit linux

Updated

• Client
  • Decreased memory usage when downloading data
• Docs
  • Badges reflect master build status
• Tests
  • Less output on appveyor

Removed

• Docs
  • Obsolete info
• Redundant code
• Unused requirements

v2.1.2 - 2016/08/10

Added

• Client
  • Reporting of percent complete when patch updating
• FOSS to docs

Fixed

• Client
  • Reporting of downloaded status in callbacks

v2.1.1 - 2016/07/31

Added

• Docs
  • Usage docs for updating application & assets

Fixed

• Client
  • Restart
  • In certain cases calling download() after a failed download will not start another download
• Parsing platform name from archive filename

v2.1.0 - 2016/07/30

Added

• Retry download
• dsdev-utils >= 0.9.0
• Client
  • AppUpdate.extract_overwrite
  • File hash verification before extracting

Updated

• Client
  • Only log debug messages
  • Store update data in appdata local instead of roaming
• archive command
• Windows tests setup scripts
• More concise docs

Fixed

• Client
  • Write file to file-system when no hash is passed
  • Close file descriptors

Removed

• jms-utils
• Duplicate logging calls
• Duplicate listing of dependencies
• archive --target-name
• Redundant code

Deprecated

• AppUpdate.win_extract_overwrite
  • Use: AppUpdate.extract_overwrite
  • Remove: v3.0
• AppUpdate.restart
  • Use: AppUpdate.extract_restart
  • Remove: v3.0

v2.0.5 - 2016/07/17

Fixed

• Creating patches

v2.0.4 - 2016/07/17

Added

• Ability for windows apps to be extracted & overwritten but not restarted
• FileDownloaderError

Updated

• Docs
• Re-factored PackageHandler

Fixed

• Using format string while logging

v2.0.3 - 2016/07/09

Added

• PyUpdater-SCP-plugin to pyupdater[all] install

Updated

• Install bsdiff by default
• Lib
  • PyUpdater-SCP-plugin >= 3.0.5

Fixed

• User message when setting config directory

v2.0.2 - 2016/07/09

Updated

• Graceful exit when attempting to import a module removed from the stdlib

Fixed

• Website
  • Changelog submenu

v2.0.1 - 2016/07/09

Fixed

• Deploy to pypi

v2.0 - 2016/07/09

Backwards incompatible changes

• Upload plugin system
  • See "Create Upload Plugins" in docs
• Version manifest file the client downloads during update checks.
  • See "Upgrading PyUpdater" in docs

Added

• CLI
  • Configure where client_config.py is written
  • Plugins -list plugins
  • update plugin settings
  • show plugin settings
  • Verbose: Show why packages were not processed
  • Keep files after upload

Updated

• Plugin System
  • Simplified plugin interface
  • Enables saving of plugin configuration
  • Automatic loading of plugin configuration before use
• Docs
  • Renamed sub menus
  • Work flow
  • Plugin Creation
  • Plugin command
  • Upgrade how to
• License
• File deletion on windows when uploading
• Supports PyInstaller 3.0 - 3.2
• Updated tests
• Some overall clean up of the code base

Fixed

• Status Badges
• Patch updates
• Including libraries in current directory

Removed

• Compatibility code for older versions of PyUpdater
• Need for specific version of PyInstaller
• Lib
  • requests

v1.1.15 - 2016/04/17

Removed

• debug code

v1.1.14 - 2016/04/17

Updated

• Libs
  • PyInstaller 3.1.1
  • requests 2.9.1
  • stevedore 1.12.0
  • urllib3 1.15.1

Fixed

• Finding directory of executable

Removed

• Unused import

v1.1.13 - 2015/12/13

Fixed

• Missing import

v1.1.12 - 2015/12/13

Removed

• Unused dependency
  • cryptography

v1.1.11 - 2015/12/13

Fixed

• Processing packages on windows

v1.1.10 - 2015/12/13

Fixed

• Error when archive is in the manifest but missing from files folder
• Error when attempting to remove executable left in new folder

v1.1.9 - 2015/12/11

Updated

• Read & write files in utf-8
• Libs
  • cryptography 1.1.2
  • stevedore 1.10.0

Removed

• Unused test init code

v1.1.8 - 2015/11/23

Updated

• Libs
  • cryptography 1.1.1
  • certifi no longer pinned to specific version

v1.1.7 - 2015/11/14

Fixed

• Parsing name of archive with spaces

v1.1.6 - 2015/11/12

Fixed

• Creating second keypack for specific app

v1.1.5 - 2015/11/08

Updated

• Upload Plugins
  • S3 2.5
  • SCP 2.3

v1.1.4 - 2015/11/05

Fixed

• Issue restarting application when located in directories beginning with a period.

v1.1.3 - 2015/11/04

Fixed

• Download progress callbacks
• Potential issue restarting application when located in certain directories.

Removed

• Initializing client with list of callbacks

v1.1.2 - 2015/10/30

Updated

• Cleanup of archives on dev machine
• Centralized cleanup function to be used by client & package handler

Fixed

• Creating patches for updates
• Erroneous warning when paring version info

v1.1.1.1 - 2015/10/28

Updated

• Libs
  • cryptography 1.1
  • requests 2.8.1
  • stevedore 1.9.0

Fixed

• xrange on py3

v1.1 - 2015/10/28

Added

• Make file for windows
• Patch size in manifest
• Release Channels
  • Alpha, Beta & Stable. Channels can be changed at anytime! Just pass the desired channel to update_check
• Auto Upgrade external files
  • Update your external files, binaries or whatever you want to auto upgrade. Patch support included :). The absolute path to the update archive is available .abspath

Updated

• Pass all arguments except ones we care about directly to pyinstaller
• CLI help messages
• Debugging messages
• Pre-Release versions can be in long or short form
  • Before: 1.0a 1.1.b 1.2.1b1
  • After: 1.0alpha 1.1.beta 1.2.1beta1
• Client
  • Windows: Updates no longer open cmd prompt when restart app
  • Windows: restart scripts written to appdata instead of cwd
• Utils
  • Make up to multiple attempts to remove a file/directory before giving up - Windows only
• Patching
  • Will take combined size of patches and compare to the size of a full download in bytes to determine if patch update is suitable.
  • Will only create patches for packages on stable channel
  • Initial patch will start at 1 instead of 100
• Docs
  • Commands explained with description and examples
  • Cosmetic updates

Removed

• Update command
• Duplicate code
• Build arg --app-name
  • PyUpdater will pull the app name provided during repo init

v1.0.1 - 2015/10/11

Updated

• Universal wheel

v1.0 - 2015/10/11

Added

• Python 3 support
• Offline root keys
• CI testing on windows
• Tox testing
• ETA provided to callbacks
• Async download
  • download(async=True)

Updated

• Client
  • Support for offline root keys
  • Sanitizing url attributes
  • Patches clients up to 4 versions behind
• Config is now a dict instead of class
• Logging errors for 3rd party services
• Info messages
• Storage object
  • JSON backed
  • Centralized data store
• ClI
  • help messages
  • offline keys are created and imported
  • importing keys overwrites currently imported key
• Optimized tests
  • Centralized PyUpdater object creation
  • Test filename generators
• Libs
  • urllib3 1.12
  • requests 2.8.0
• Simplified signature verification

Fixed

• Error when not able to get cpu count on windows
• Writing debug
• Uploading debug logs

Removed

• vendored pyinstaller
• revoking keys
• Some unused code
  • PyUpdaterConfig

v0.23.3 - 2015/07/21

Fixed

• File already exists error

v0.23.2 - 2015/07/21

Fixed

• Compilation

Updated

• PyInstaller to 39b02fe5e7563431115f9812f757a21bbcc78837

v0.23.1 - 2015/07/19

Fixed

• Missing bootloaders

v0.23.0 - 2015/07/19

Added

• Vendored PyInstaller

  • f920d3eea510ed088eda5359c04990338600c2b8
  • Ability to provide fixes quicker

Fixed

• Error when patch info is None

v0.22.3 - 2015/07/18

Fixed

• Parsing platform names

v0.22.2 - 2015/07/18

Fixed

• Versioneer settings

v0.22.1 - 2015/07/18

Updated

• Versioneer settings

v0.22 - 2015/07/18

Updated

• Code refactoring & optimizations

• Download url

• Converted docs to markdown

• Error handling for callbacks

• Libs

  • ed15519 1.4
  • stevedore 1.6.0
  • PyUpdater-S3-Plugin 2.3

Removed

• Duplicate code
• Deprecated log command

v0.21.1 - 2015/05/25

Added

• More hooks from pyinstaller develop

Updated

• Test runs in parallel
• Documentation
• Libs
  • requests 2.7.0
  • urllib3 1.10.4

Fixed

• Parsing App Name from update archive filename when version number is in x.x format
• Potential import error if pyinstaller version lower then 2.1

Removed

• Unused code

v0.21.0 - 2015/04/30

Updated

• PyUpdater

  • Debug logs are uploaded to a gist on github
  • requests lib 2.6.2
  • urllib3 lib 1.10.3
  • stevedore lib 1.4.0
  • S3 plugin 2.2
  • SCP plugin 2.2
  • Code refactoring

Fixed

• PyUpdater

  • Potential leak of sensitive information to log files

v0.20.0 - 2015/03/08

Renamed to PyUpdater

Updated

• Client

  • Better error handling

• PyUpdater

  • Using json to store config data
  • Less IO during execution
  • Header performance improvements - upstream
  • Central db object

Fixed

• Client

  • Handling of download with corresponding hash

• PyUpdater

  • session fixation attacks and potentially cookie stealing - upstream
  • Not writing config file when cleaning repo

Removed

• PyUpdater

  • RC4 from default cipher list - upstream
  • Old migration code
  • Removed old json version file
  • Download progress to stdout
  • Unused imports

v0.19.3 - 2015/02/22

Fixed

• Client

  • Removing old updates. Really fixed it this time :)

v0.19.2 - 2015/02/22

Fixed

• Client

  • Removing old updates

v0.19.1 - 2015/02/22

Fixed

• PyUpdater

  • Creating new config db when running any command

v0.19 - 2015/02/22

Added

• CLI

  • Update command. Used after updating PyUpdater to update repository

• Logging

  • Now logs framework version

Updated

• CLI

  • Clearer output messages
  • Correct some spelling

• Client

  • Exception handling
  • Moved patcher and downloader to client package
  • Using requests instead of urllib3.
  • More reliable https verification

• PyUpdater

  • Potential incorrect comparison of pyinstaller versions
  • Archive version parsing
  • Crashing if directory does not exists
  • Pinning version of plugins
  • Initial support for pre release versions
  • Moved some uploader config to plugins. Check plugin docs for more info.
  • Updated config attributes. * Make sure to run pyupdater update
  • Install commands

  $ pip install[patch] # To enable patch support $ pip install[all] # To add patch support, aws s3 & scp upload plugins

• Plugins

  • from pyi_updater.uploader import BaseUploader
  • from pyi_updater.uploader.common import BaseUploader will be remove in v0.22+

Fixed

• Key Handler

  • Writing of deprecated version meta after migration
  • Not loading keys from db

• Package Handler

  • Migration of repo meta config

• PyUpdater

  • Potential error when adding key add key.db isn't loaded

Removed

• PyUpdater

  • Some unused attributes on config object
  • Unused functions