Update

An Extensible Update Library

For anything, from `CurrentProgram` to Plugins.

Documentation

For the latest documentation for Update and more details about the library, please see the dedicated documentation site. Alternatively, check the docs folder of this repository.

About Update

Update is a lightweight-ish updating framework for .NET applications.

It is designed with the purpose of updating arbitrary things, including but not limited to:

• Current Application
• Plugins
• Modules

The goal of this library is to be extensible; allowing users to easily add support for their own components such as download sources and compression formats without requiring changes to the library code.

Update is heavily inspired by Onova by Alexey Golub and has a somewhat similar API. Update in particular adds additional features such as delta compression at the expense of a slightly more complex configuration process.

When to use Update

• You ship very big updates and require delta compression support between versions.
• You want to clean up your application folder after updates.
• You want to update things other than just the application you are running.
• You need to support Semantic Versioning (and thus Prereleases).

When to not use Update

Consider using the original Onova (or another library) if you have any of the following requirements:

• If you wish to use this library with .NET Framework (VCDiff needs backported).
• You need a simpler CI/CD deployment & integration experience.
• You can only upload 1 file to a given website.

Etymology

Update is a pun on the name Onova, which is the Ukrainian word for "update" (noun).

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