Fixed: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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koitsu
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Fixed: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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The latest version of HxD is not being reflected in https://mh-nexus.de/updates/HxDCurrentVersion.json

Details/original thread: https://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=944

This has been impacting the Chocolatey HxD package, which determines the most-recent-version using aforementioned JSON file, for quite some time. There's an open GitHub issue with the package maintainer as well.

Maël, can this please get updated? Thank you!
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Re: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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Thank you for informing me, surprised you were the first one to notice (on my communication channels).

I'll reply when it's fixed.
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Re: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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Ok, the file is now automatically created from information stored in a database that also drives the download page. The DB was enhanced with additional information/structure to make this possible.

The documentation of the old file format (and the slightly updated one) is here:

https://forum.mh-nexus.de/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1212

If anybody takes over the maintainance of the chocolatey package, and wants to discuss details, let me know.

For now I left the original file unchanged, and created a new one until its clear the dataformat is working well:

https://mh-nexus.de/HxD2.5.0.0-installa ... -Tags.json (temporary, please do not rely on this URL, the final one will be decided once it was confirmed the file format/information works for automatically created chocolatey packages).

Another example for HxD 1.7.7.0 (since there are separate downloads for each language, the JSON file is more verbose):
https://mh-nexus.de/HxD1.7.7.0-installa ... -Tags.json (same as above, only a temporary file, do not rely on its URL to be fixed).
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Re: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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https://mh-nexus.de/updates/HxDCurrentVersion.json contains now the updated version information.

Let me know if it works well.

If you can reply here if all works that would be great, so it's documented for the future, and I can close this bug report.
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Re: HxDCurrentVersion.json outdated

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Working well so far. Everything in https://github.com/koitsu/chocolatey-pa ... master/hxd is up-to-date and using the latest JSON manifest, and the HxD 2.5.0.0 Chocolatey package update has been pushed to the Community Repository (it'll take several days or weeks for someone to review/vet it, followed by its approval. Normal process for Chocolatey).

Thanks so much for all your help on this!
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