pupdate

Bug fix to allow updater to be run on a blank SD card again

What's Changed

• Automatically create the Cores and parent directories by @knorrium in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/97

New Contributors

• @knorrium made their first contribution in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/97

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/compare/v2.10.2...v2.10.3

This should fix the bug some people were having when downloading arcade roms

What's Changed

• skip hidden files by @mattpannella in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/96

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/compare/v2.10.1...v2.10.2

Only one change. If there's an issue reading an instance json while checking for assets, handle the exception and keep going, instead of breaking and moving on to the next core
Should help the cps1 issue a little. still can't reproduce the bug to actually fix it, though

New Features

• Downloading required assets (roms, bios files etc) for cores that are not installed by the updater. Now if you manually install a core that isn't supported by the updater (such as one of jotego's cores that are patreon exclusive) it will still attempt to find and install all the required files
• When using cli parameters, it no longer waits for input at the end of the process and just exits

What's Changed

• Fixed issue #87
• temporarily removed self updating, to iron out some issues

What's Changed

• Add support for in-place auto update by @Guspaz in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/83
• Updated to hopefully handle jotego's cores properly, until the inventory api adds support for other release types

New Contributors

• @Guspaz made their first contribution in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/83

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/compare/v2.9.2...v2.9.3

Fixed issue with version comparison that was causing the amiga core to download every time

What's Changed

• Clean up unwanted files in cores before installing. by @LoneBoco in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/77
• Fixed stupid bug in the version regex @mattpannella in https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility/pull/79

This really isn't a bugfix release, but there's an issue with the regex that pulls the semver out of the git release tag, and if i labeled this 2.10.0 it would never trigger a new update download. whatever, no one cares about the version

New Feature

• Now you will be prompted with an option for how you want the updater to handle new cores. Automatically accept them, automatically skip them, or prompt you if there's new cores whenever you run the app.
• This setting can be updated by running the core selector

Special thanks to @LoneBoco for this one

when you run the core selector in 2.8.0 you need to quit the app and run it again for the choices to take effect.
this is fixed in 2.8.1

New features

• Added a menu to make it easier to choose what option you want to run. this was long overdue. i'm lazy
• Added an option to download available image packs
• Added a new cli parameter to skip the menu and just run the update process, the way it used to work. -u

New Feature

• Uninstall all skipped cores. Keep your openFPGA menu clean by removing unwanted cores. Setting is on by default. Can be disabled by setting config.delete_skipped_cores to false

Bug Fix: Core selector works with pram0d's cores, now.

Last release accidentally contained something unfinished that caused it to not download some asset files. Should be fixed, now
who needs qa? just release it broken, and then release a patch the next day

• MacOS build is now a universal binary. Please let me know if this causes any issues for anyone.

• First step toward supporting cores hosted in a single repository, without using releases. It's kind of a hack and inelegant right now, but whatever i dont care

Translation: The pram0d cores are supported now (snow bros 2 and garegga)

Moved to v1 of the openFPGA Cores API
This will cut down on github api usage, significantly. and pretty much avoid all rate limit issues so you won't need to worry about setting up a github token, anymore

Thats it really. sorry, boring update

Minor updates

• config.preserve_images is now config.preserve_platforms_folder. you can delete the old setting if you want, it won't do anything. Now it preserves the entire Platforms directory instead of just the images directory inside it
• Core allow prerelease flag is set to false by default

mostly doing this to test my automated build script

but there's 1 new feature:

Preserve Images Folder

go into the settings json file and set config.preserve_images to true and the updater won't overwrite the Platforms/_images directory with updates, so you can keep your custom images
It can also be set by using -i as a cli parameter

New Features:

Core Selector

On your first run it will prompt you to select the cores you want tracked. After that initial run, you can always run this again by setting core_selector to true in the settings json file, or if running from the cli you can use the parameter -c

Automatic app updating

When you launch the updater, now it will download a new version if it's available

Update summary

A little summary of which cores and assets were downloaded is printed at the end of the process to make it easier to keep track of what changed

Bug fix: --version and --help won't run the update process anymore

Features:
Now always automatically gets the up to date cores and rom/bios lists, since the settings are broken out into their own file.

Every other change is under the hood stuff sorry!