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• Smash API Rate Limit & More

  Version 4.3.0 adds a personal GitHub Access Token setting to raise the API rate limit to 5000 calls per hour, along with plugin branch switching and a View details link on the plugins page.

  Apr 5, 2015

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• GitHub Updater and Error Messages

  HTTP error codes from the GitHub and Bitbucket APIs are now surfaced as WordPress admin notices, with a 401 indicating an authorization failure and a 403 indicating a surpassed rate limit along with the reset time.

  Mar 6, 2015

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• GitHub Updater Logo

  A hand-drawn concept sketch submitted to LogoMajestic resulted in a professional logo for GitHub Updater that matched the original vision on the very first pass.

  Mar 4, 2015

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• Looking for a Logo

  A WordCamp sponsorship request prompted the search for an official logo for GitHub Updater, leading to a hand-drawn concept sketch and the start of work with a professional logo designer.

  Feb 27, 2015

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• GitHub Updater 4.1.0

  The v4.1.0 release delivers community bug fixes and a new remote install feature that eliminates the manual download-rename-upload workflow for GitHub and Bitbucket plugins and themes.

  Feb 14, 2015

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• GitHub Updater and Remote Installation

  The v4.0.0 release introduces namespacing and PSR-4 autoloading, and the upcoming v4.1.0 adds one-click remote installation of plugins and themes from public and private GitHub and Bitbucket repositories using the WordPress upgrader classes.

  Feb 9, 2015

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• Private Bitbucket Repositories

  An update to GitHub Updater reorganizes the Settings page so clients enter their own Bitbucket credentials, improving security by letting developers add clients as read-only users without exposing the developer password.

  Dec 20, 2014

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• Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 3

  Recent improvements to GitHub Updater include privileged-user-only execution, spl_autoload_register for class loading, Parsedown for changelog rendering, a new Settings Page for storing credentials outside the repository, and a fix for a long-standing bug preventing Bitbucket private repository updates.

  Dec 16, 2014

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• Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 2

  A technical deep-dive into how GitHub Updater scans plugin and theme headers, queries the GitHub and Bitbucket APIs with transient caching to avoid rate limits, and hooks into WordPress core update mechanisms with minimal overhead for both developers and end users.

  Aug 21, 2014

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