published on Sunday 19 March, 2006 at 3:17 pm. {4 Comments}
Release Notes
- Major Improvements:
- Fully automatic updating! (see the Documentation: this is beta and off by default)
- Added support for DSA signatures (see the Documentation).
- Added support for MD5 sum verification.
- Added Security.framework-based authentication for installing to privileged directories.
- Huge refactoring of the codebase: there’s now a Sparkle Xcode project, Sparkle is now a framework, and everything is modular / abstracted. And no more code-generated interface.
- Minor Improvements:
- A SUUpdaterWillRestartNotification is sent out before restarting now.
- Added key equivalents to alert panel buttons.
- Error handling is much prettier now: technical messages are not presented to the user anymore.
- There’s now a test app for developers to see what Sparkle’s like before using it.
- Wrote new, pretty, extremely thorough documentation.
- Bug Fixes:
- Relaunch behavior is much improved and shouldn’t fail in huge apps anymore.
- Fixed a bug wherein a failing tar command could crash the host app.
- Sparkle now looks at InfoPlist.strings in addition to Info.plist.
- Fixed some stupid typos.
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