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| 1 | +Version 4.2.0 Release Notes |
| 2 | +=========================== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +IMPORTANT NOTICE! |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | + This is the last version with support for ST3. |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +NEW DEFAULT CHANNEL |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + The client is using the following new default channel by default: |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + https://packages.sublimetext.io/channel.json |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + Any request to https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json is redirected. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + To discover packages online, visit |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + https://packages.sublimetext.io |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | + New packages and libraries are published daily at 0:00 UTC. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + Dedicated libraries channel is still available, but its content is merged |
| 23 | + into new default channel and thus doesn't need to be specified explicitly. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + This change is required as packagecontrol.io is more or less unmaintained |
| 26 | + for several years, didn't even receive related Package Control 4 updates, |
| 27 | + suffered various even long lasting outages and its infrastructure seems to |
| 28 | + struggle with current amount of packages and data needed to be managed, |
| 29 | + which results in packages frequently not being available for install or |
| 30 | + upgrade. As current community doesn't have access to its infrastructure. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + The new crawler works way more efficient and uses a more intelligent |
| 33 | + caching strategy to reduce network bandwidth. Full downloads are only |
| 34 | + made if packages or libraries have been added or modified really changed. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + There's still some work to do to consolidate new infrastructure, |
| 37 | + which this change is a first and important step, for. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | + The new crawler and website are maintained under: |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | + https://github.com/packagecontrol |
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