Trickle 0.1.14

Trickle 0.1.14 adds resumable continuous streaming as the default transfer method, reducing remote request overhead while retaining the immutable source snapshots and verification used by chunked transfers.

• Resume interrupted downloads and uploads at the receiver’s saved byte offset; verify the complete snapshot digest before staging or application.
• Make All media skip matching year/month/file checksums by default; add explicit Force retransfer and --force-media while retaining saved settings and the legacy compare alias.
• Keep 512 KiB chunks selectable in the dashboard and CLI (--transport=chunks); recent transfers retain their method.
• Preserve matching plugin/theme folder skips in mixed selections and oversized-plan fallbacks; validate pinned folder tokens and negotiate older-source compatibility.
• Replace paginated plugin/theme checksum listings with one compressed manifest, skipping per-file comparisons for missing destination folders.
• Add bounded backoff for safe reads/transfer steps, honor server Retry-After cooldowns, and retain paused sessions. Apply requests are never blindly replayed.
• Retry busy source generation separately from network failures; recognize older source-lock errors and retain bounded recovery.
• Refresh older recovery loaders after authenticated upgrades and preserve the full activation list on the first request.
• Expose sanitized request metrics and an automation user-agent filter.
• Detect stalled snapshot downloads and resume saved bytes without limiting the total duration of a healthy stream.
• Show PHP compatibility notices naming the plugin/theme, destination PHP version, failing file and line.
• Fix primary-key discovery on MariaDB; preserve compound-key ordering for bounded export pages.

Validation: 321 backend checks, JavaScript workflow/selection/version/progress/compatibility-notice regressions, and browser checks of both transport choices. Tests include interrupted signed-TLS downloads/uploads, automatic resume, corrupted-prefix rejection, snapshot ownership/digest checks, rate-limit cooldowns, Git/environment exclusions, activation, rollback, retained backups, and JSON-based updates.

Live pull validation: a 1 GB archive verified in one continuous request on two PHP runtimes; a full local pull recovered from a deliberate timeout and a real SSL EOF. Independent file/table/activation checks passed. Fresh and warm incremental pulls passed, including year-level media skips. A real stalled-TLS fixture verified timeout and byte-offset recovery. No migration pushes were performed in this comparison.

Source snapshot generation and final staging remain foreground PHP operations; wider hosting and concurrent-write testing remains necessary.

Live reliability follow-up: 11 completed verified pulls across SiteDistrict and Flywheel, including seven of seven post-fix runs. A fresh large media pull recovered automatically from a real EOF and busy-source responses. Flywheel tests exclude one inactive PHP-incompatible theme; an earlier activation result was invalidated and rerun against an independent WordPress administrator check. No source-content pushes were performed. A separate full Classic Editor pull transferred six files in 9.3 seconds including verification/cleanup (10.6 seconds with WordPress startup), with one EOF recovered automatically.