https://github.com/tannerhelland/photodemon-updates-v2

the official automatic update interface for PhotoDemon 8.0+
https://github.com/tannerhelland/photodemon-updates-v2

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the official automatic update interface for PhotoDemon 8.0+

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tannerhelland/photodemon-updates-v2
• Owner: tannerhelland
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2018-06-08T16:40:17.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2026-02-12T17:34:03.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-02-13T01:10:37.137Z (4 months ago)
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.18 GB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## PhotoDemon 8.0+ automatic update interface

In v8.0, PhotoDemon's automatic update interface received a number of improvements.  These improvements were primarily focused delivering faster, smaller, more secure updates to end-users, with a happy side-effect of being a better GitHub citizen (by requiring fewer resources to deliver our updates).

This new update system is built off GitHub Pages, which has several advantages over serving update data from a raw GitHub repository.  (Benefits include better CDN coverage and much more generous bandwidth limits.)  PD already does a lot to minimize update notifications, but nightly builds are a little more cumbersome, owing to the frequency with which they change.

The current update process serves stable and beta updates as complete units, with all 3rd-party libraries bundled with the download.  Nightly builds do *not* do this; instead, they allow users to download just the updated PhotoDemon.exe file (which is actually just a small portion of the overall download size).

Additional ideas for improvements are always welcome!