go-rocket-update: Build self-updating Go programs
Enable your Golang applications to easily and safely to self update.
Here is the list of projects using this package.
It provides the flexibility to implement different updating user experiences like auto-updating, or manual user-initiated updates, and updates from different sources.
The gopher in this image was created by Takuya Ueda, licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.
Features
- Flexible way to provide updates (ex: using Github or Gitlab!)
- Cross platform support (Mac, Linux, Arm, and Windows)
- RSA signature verification
- Tooling to generate and verify signatures
- Background update
- Rollback feature
QuickStart
Install library
go get -u github.com/mouuff/go-rocket-update/...
Enable your App to Self Update
Here is an example using Github releases:
u := &updater.Updater{
Provider: &provider.Github{
RepositoryURL: "github.com/mouuff/go-rocket-update-example",
ArchiveName: fmt.Sprintf("binaries_%s.zip", runtime.GOOS),
},
ExecutableName: fmt.Sprintf("go-rocket-update-example_%s_%s", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH),
Version: "v0.0.1",
}
if _, err := u.Update(); err != nil {
log.Println(err)
}
Check this project for a complete example: https://github.com/mouuff/go-rocket-update-example
Push an update
The updater uses a Provider
as an input source for updates. It provides files and version for the updater.
Here is few examples of providers:
provider.Github
: It will check for the latest release on Github with a specific archive name (zip or tar.gz)
provider.Gitlab
: It will check for the latest release on Gitlab with a specific archive name (zip or tar.gz)
provider.Local
: It will use a local folder, version will be defined in the VERSION file (can be used for testing, or in a company with a shared folder for example)
provider.Zip
: It will use a zip
file. The version is defined by the file name (Example: binaries-v1.0.0.tar.gz
). Use GlobNewestFile to find the right file.
provider.Gzip
: Same as provider.Zip
but with a tar.gz
file.
The updater will list the files and retrieve them the same way for all the providers:
The directory should have files containing ExecutableName
.
Example directory content with ExecutableName: fmt.Sprintf("test_%s_%s", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
:
test_windows_amd64.exe
test_darwin_amd64
test_linux_arm
We recommend using goxc for compiling your Go application for multiple platforms.
Planned features
This project is currently under construction, here is some of the things to come:
- More documentation and examples
- Variable templating
- Mutliple providers (enables the use of another provider if the first one is down)
- Update channels for Github provider (alpha, beta, ...)
- Validation of the executable being installed
API Breaking Changes
- Aug 1, 2021: Major: The
UpdateHook
variable used in Updater
have been replaced with PostUpdateFunc
and the Updater will no longer call Rollback()
automatically if the PostUpdateFunc
returns an error.