Posting a day late, but there's a minor new version available. Note that the only real functional change in this new version is to change the 'Check for updates' URL to one that the new maintainers control. There are also some minor edits to the URLs used for other items on the Help menu. Thus it should run identically to 3.43. Be sure any issues aren't due to a plugin before reporting. Yesterday someone updating reported issues due to the 'Hutton' plugin, but it turned out a server which it utilises was having issues!
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Release 3.44
Due to a lack of time to give the project the attention it needs Marginal has handed over ownership of the EDMarketConnector GitHub repository to the EDCD (Elite Dangerous Community Developers) organisation.
Initially Athanasius will now be responsible for maintaining the code, including addressing any Pull Requests and Issues, and making releases.
Unfortunately he has no access to hardware running MacOS so can't easily generate builds for that platform or test them. So for the time being releases will be for Windows 10 only (as the build is done on Windows 10 and only tested on Windows 10, previous versions might still work, but no guarantees). MacOS users are advised to look into running from source (see Running from source).
Going forwards the intention is to move to the python 3.7 code as soon as possible. To facilitate this there will be one more python 2.7 release in addition to this one, with the main aim of that being to add code to alert the user about any plugins they use that have apparently not been updated to run under python 3.7.
See the project GitHub repository's
README.md for further information.
- Version increased to 3.4.4.0 / 3.44.
- URL the application checks for updates changed to point to github
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Otis hasn't yet updated the old "check for updates" URL to point to this, so you won't be getting the update automatically. Edit: He replaced it with the contents of the new URL around 22:22 UTC, so automatic updates should be offered now. Otherwise please head to
EDMC Release 3.44 to grab the .msi file and install it.
I'm now working on a final Python 2.7-based release before moving EDMC over to Python 3.7. That is planned to be version 3.46 (because I burned 3.45 making sure the auto update from 3.44 is all working) and will include fixes for known bugs, support for Carrier jumps, and code to alert you if any of your plugins aren't ready for the transition to Python 3.7.
If all goes well that 3.46 release will be available tomorrow (and 3.44 will offer it automatically, or if you use Help > "Check for updates").
The first release using Python 3.7 will then be a week or two later. At
least a week so as to give users time to update their plugins if needed, especially if they have to contact plugin authors to actually update the plugin code. I'm still undecided on whether this will be version 3.60 (3.50 was used for python3 pre-release, and since then some people have forked versions and bumped them up as far as 3.52) or go all the way to 4.00. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion!