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@Sparkle-Bot Sparkle-Bot released this 02 Jul 22:58
· 227 commits to 2.x since this release
2.2.0
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  • Update Focus Improvements (#924)
    • Present new scheduled updates in utmost focus only at opportune times (Zorg)
      • For regular apps opportune times are: app launch, app re-activation, and system being idle (without a power assertion being held to prevent display sleep).
      • For background (dockless) apps opportune time is just app launch. Otherwise, the update is now shown behind other applications and windows, instead of previously stealing focus from other active apps.
    • Add APIs and documentation for adding gentle update reminders to compliment Sparkle's standard user interface (Zorg) (#2122)
    • Allow status window to be minimizable for regular app installs (Zorg) (#2100)
    • Center status window and inherit key focus from the previously shown update alert window (Zorg)
    • Activate app when checking for updates if the app is not currently active (e.g, from a menu bar extra menu item) (Zorg)
    • Fix issue where bringing status window to front made other active windows exit in macOS Ventura's Stage Manager (#2153) (Zorg)
    • Fix showing update in focus not bringing the "checking for updates" window in focus (Zorg) (#2150)
  • Rename XPC Service filenames for Sandboxing to show more friendly human-readable name in authorization dialog (Zorg) (#2096)
  • Add support for running the framework and sparkle-cli as root (Zorg) (#2119)
  • Fix issue where update cycle may not complete in unusual configuration if automatic checks are disabled + automatic downloading is enabled + install requires user interaction (Zorg) (#2133)
  • Synchronize usage of XPC connections to main queue to fix potential race conditions (Zorg) (#2178)
  • Update last update check time when choosing to install an update & relaunch (Zorg) (#2136)
  • Improve error reporting in the framework and sparkle-cli when installation fails with no write permission (Zorg) (#2157)
  • Use displayVersionString instead of versionString for OS version mismatch error message (samschott) (#2138)
  • Make displayVersionString non-null and update fallback documentation (Zorg) (#2139)
  • Ignore custom icons set via resource forks when applying delta updates (Zorg) (#2114)
  • Fall back to regular update if delta update fails to download (Zorg) (#2118)
  • Skip downloading delta updates when application has been moved to a file system (like FAT) that doesn't support regular permission modes (Zorg) (#2148)
  • Bump initial installer message timeouts and declare daemon/agents processes as Interactive (Zorg) (#2162)
  • Add and improve translation strings and update pt-BR (BR Lingo) (#2094)
  • Update localisations (Eitot) (#2113)
  • Update Greek localizations (seitsme) (#2184, #2185)
  • Update Japanese localization (1024jp) (#2182)
  • Replace deprecated code with newer APIs (Eitot) (#2112)
  • Remove obsolete fallbacks for older OS versions (Eitot) (#2110)
  • Remove SPUURLRequest (Zorg) (#2124)
  • Silence ivar deprecation warnings (Zorg) (#2099)
  • Fix Xcode 14 project warnings (Zorg) (#2147, #2179)
  • Deprecate -s flag and add --ed-key-file option to generate_appcast (Zorg) (#2170)
  • Update text for external licenses (Zorg) (#2164)

This update renames the bundled XPC Services, brings improvements to notifying users of new updates without disrupting their focus, and adds gentle update reminder APIs to further customize how Sparkle's standard user interface delivers new update alerts.

The -s flag for passing a raw private EdDSA key to sign_update and generate_appcast is now deprecated. If you were using this option previously, please see the help pages of these tools for more information.

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