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Solder.io has shut down

As mentioned previously in , Solder.io has been shut down at the end of 2023.

Solder.io is shutting down

**Solder.io will be shutting down at the end of the year of 2023.** Over the years, it became clear to us that Solder.io wasn't moving forward, in terms of development. As a result, about a year ago, we made the decision to shut it down. For context, Solder.io itself hasn't had any updates to it for nearly 5 years now, and there is no interest in keeping it running anymore. This also marks the official ending of the rewrite of Solder led by Indemnity83, which is linked to the development of Solder.io, and lived at . That repo also hasn't had any updates to it in nearly 5 years. We want to make it clear that the current version of the self-hosted Solder () has been in development and will continue to exist. If you want to continue using Solder for your modpacks, you should set up your own instance of it. There are other Solder-compatible projects created by the community which you could choose to use if you find the official Technic Solder too complicated to set up. Those projects aren't handled by us, and we offer no help in running or setting them up. If you have any modpacks in Solder.io that you wish to export to your instance, please be sure to do that before the end of the year, because when Solder.io shuts down any data left inside of it will be inaccessible and removed within a few months. We have permanently paused payment collection on our side at Stripe, so if your subscription renews during this period you won't be charged for it. Thank you for trying out Solder.io and supporting us, but unfortunately the Solder.io project has come to an end. Regards, Technic Team

New Solder version (v0.7.6)

So, a new version of Technic Solder has been released. The version is 0.7.6, it's based on Laravel 6 and supports PHP 7.2+ (up to 8.0).

There are a bunch of improvements and bugfixes which should make everything less painful to work with.

The documentation at https://docs.solder.io/ has been updated to this new version, and the old one (v0.7, PHP 5.6 to 7.0) has been marked as unsupported.

If you're upgrading from Solder v0.7, remember to run php artisan migrate after you install the new version.

Solder v0.7.3.1 released


Solder v0.7.3.1 has just been pushed live! Make sure to report any new issues/bugs here: https://github.com/TechnicPack/TechnicSolder/issues

Bug fixes and tweaks

 

 - This fixes a major bug that prevented users from adding/hashing modversions from a local repo. #498

Credit to Ionaru for the quick report! Thank you!


Solder v0.7.3.0 released


Solder v0.7.3.0 has just been pushed live! Make sure to report any new issues/bugs here: https://github.com/TechnicPack/TechnicSolder/issues

Here's the changelogs!

New File Sizes!

Note: This requires a migration! Guide: Updating Solder

This is a completely internal change that required a massive rewrite of our URL/cURL libraries. What this will allow, is the ability for more accurate status bars/information displayed in the launcher during installation/updates. It should help show exactly what file is taking so long on those pesky big modpacks.

The Launcher currently does not support this feature but it will be implemented soon!

New alerts! (jGrowl alerts, Credit to Indemnity83)

Solder has made a big change from those annoying bootstrap alerts to a JS library, jGrowl.

This should be a much nicer change especially when updating builds! Feel free to leave a comment on the Solder issue tracker on the change and if you have any ideas to better optimize the feature.

Revamped unit testing!

Unit testing has been completely revamped to cover multiple database backends (MySQL & Postgres) as well as testing against the new PHP 7 release.

https://travis-ci.org/TechnicPack/TechnicSolder

Bug fixes and tweaks

- Completely revamped MinecraftUtils library due to UrlUtils changes. MD5 support has been dropped since this is handled by the Launcher now. Only MC versions are polled.

- Allows the deletion of the first user. Fixes #454 (Credit to EntranceJew)

- Added warnings for deleting your own account. (Credit to EntranceJew)

- Fixed typo in Contributing.md. (Credit to rockhopper72)

- Fixed commit links to API endpoint instead of the Github web page. (Credit to Isigiel)

- Fixed a bug where modpages would fail to load. (Credit to EntranceJew)

- Made .panel-body show scrollbars on overflow. Fixes #430  (Credit to EntranceJew)

- Added the latest mod version to the mod list (See image below). Fixes #401  (Credit to EntranceJew)

Latest mod version on mod list