MobMapUpdater v1.73
Sunday, March 23. 2008
A new version of the MobMapUpdater has just been rolled out via the auto update process. This update contains some changes in anticipation of the WoW patch 2.4 as well as a bugfix and some improvements.
The fix is for the old "MobMapUpdater in automatic mode preventing Windows XP from shutting down" bug. I've finally been able to reproduce this error (funny enough, I managed to reproduce it in a virtual machine after I failed to reproduce it on several physical machines) and fix it afterwards. The MobMapUpdater shouldn't prevent Windows from shutting down anymore.
The improvements concern the data upload process. It should be more stable now (thus being less likely to block indefinitely) and the data is being compressed before being uploaded, which drastically shortens upload times especially on slower connections. I definitely should have implemented this compression way earlier, as the bzip2 compression ratio is simply phenomenal (like 1/5th to 1/10th of the original size) for the XML data format used to transfer the collected data.
As always: please report if there are any new problems with this update.
The fix is for the old "MobMapUpdater in automatic mode preventing Windows XP from shutting down" bug. I've finally been able to reproduce this error (funny enough, I managed to reproduce it in a virtual machine after I failed to reproduce it on several physical machines) and fix it afterwards. The MobMapUpdater shouldn't prevent Windows from shutting down anymore.
The improvements concern the data upload process. It should be more stable now (thus being less likely to block indefinitely) and the data is being compressed before being uploaded, which drastically shortens upload times especially on slower connections. I definitely should have implemented this compression way earlier, as the bzip2 compression ratio is simply phenomenal (like 1/5th to 1/10th of the original size) for the XML data format used to transfer the collected data.
As always: please report if there are any new problems with this update.
