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commit 1ed713dd8de2adb7d761e20bb8018804c2e27ea6
Author: Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 18 17:03:36 2025 +1200
Refactor latest version caching, add console logging if update checks fails
commit bf880e583372d81a0597bc263ab22f6989e48fa9
Author: Ben Edmunds <Tigger2014@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed Jun 18 05:52:35 2025 +0100
Fix: Improve version polling, add thread safety and exponential backoff (#523)
* make version polling thread safe and add expo backoff
* tidy up
The original `--db-file` / `MP_DATA_FILE`, although deprecated, won't be removed any time soon to ensure backwards compatibility with existing integrations
