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ReDock 0.4.0

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@iPial iPial released this 23 Aug 04:41
  • Buttons say what they do. "Create WordPress", "Claim the name", "Delete
    images" — instead of a label that grew and shifted as you typed a name into
    the field above it.
  • A live site's debug log can be switched on from ReDock and read in its Logs
    tab. ReDock edits the site's wp-config.php for you, keeps a copy of the
    original, and can put it back. The live site needs ReDock Connect 1.5.0 or
    newer — the one-click update on its Connection tab does that.
  • The AI agent's screens are split the way you use them: an "AI permissions"
    tab for what the AI may do on a site, and the conversation on its own. Chat
    text can be selected and copied. The message box grows as you type, can be
    resized by hand, and remembers the size you gave it.
  • The update banner is a popup now. "What's new" shows the notes for every
    update before you take it, and when you are already on the latest version it
    shows the notes for the version you have.
  • Copying a live WordPress site is a different thing now. Instead of dragging
    it down file by file — thousands of separate requests, and a big video that
    died at 490 MB of 500 starting again from zero — the live site packs itself
    into one archive on its own disk, and ReDock brings that down in pieces that
    pick up at the exact byte if your connection drops. On the test site that is
    185 requests down to 52.
  • Sites whose ReDock Connect plugin is older still copy exactly as before, and
    the wizard says so rather than leaving you guessing why it is slow. Updating
    the plugin on the live site is the one-click button already on its Connection
    tab.
  • Backups are real backups. A backup is now a dated folder holding the site's
    files, its database, and a sheet of checksums that proves both — not just the
    database. ReDock keeps the last five per site and says so on screen before it
    removes the sixth.
  • "Back up now" works on any WordPress site, whether or not it came from a live
    one, and a copy pulled from live keeps its archive as the first backup for
    free.
  • If a site's media was left on the live site, its backup offers to go and get
    it — on by default, with the size shown before you commit. Turn it off and
    the backup says, in words, that the media is not in it.
  • You can restore a backup over the site it came from — after ReDock takes a
    safety backup of what is there now — or turn it into a brand new site and
    leave the original untouched.
  • Fixed: database backups could be taken and then refused to restore. That
    affected the old database snapshots too, and both are fixed.
  • Refreshing a site from live asks what you want first. Incremental brings down
    only the files that changed — the quick one, and now the default — while Full
    downloads the whole site again for an exact copy. Each says what it costs you:
    Incremental cannot notice a file you deleted on the live site, so that file
    stays on this Mac.
  • Fixed: a backup with nowhere to go now says so before it starts. ReDock
    checks there is room first and refuses in plain numbers — how much it needs,
    how much you have — instead of running for twenty minutes, filling the disk
    and leaving you with neither the backup nor the space to try again.
  • Fixed: the new-site wizard could tell you to install PHP when PHP was already
    installed. It was showing that the moment it opened — before it had finished
    looking — and if the check failed it never looked again. It now says what it
    is doing, and offers to try again if it could not find out.
  • Fixed: the web server no longer restarts itself over and over. ReDock decides
    whether it needs restarting by comparing the configuration it wants against
    the one the running server loaded — and that comparison was moving on its own
    whenever a public share link had come and gone, so the answer was always
    "restart it". In every log we have, the check had never once come back
    "already correct".
  • Fixed: a site that is simply slow to answer after starting is no longer
    reported as a broken web server. WordPress can take a few seconds to serve
    its first page; ReDock now says that site had not answered yet, instead of
    telling you to restart a web server that was working the whole time.
  • Fixed: ReDock's own health checks no longer fill the web server's log with
    errors. Each check used to hang up as soon as it had its answer, and the web
    server wrote that down as a failure every time. It reads to the end now.
  • Fixed: two sites starting at the same moment could be handed the same port,
    and the second one would quietly fail to come up and fall back to serving its
    files instead of running. Ports are now claimed at the instant they are
    chosen.