go-selfupdate

go-selfupdate

Enable your Golang applications to self update. Inspired by Chrome based on Heroku's hk.

Features

• Tested on Mac, Linux, Arm, and Windows
• Creates binary diffs with bsdiff allowing small incremental updates
• Falls back to full binary update if diff fails to match SHA

QuickStart

Install library and update/patch creation utility

go get -u github.com/sanbornm/go-selfupdate/...

Enable your App to Self Update

var updater = &selfupdate.Updater{
	CurrentVersion: version,
	ApiURL:         "http://updates.yourdomain.com/",
	BinURL:         "http://updates.yourdomain.com/",
	DiffURL:        "http://updates.yourdomain.com/",
	LocalStateDir:  "update/",
	AppName:        "myApp",
	DirName:        "cli", // direcroty name
}

if updater != nil {
	go updater.BackgroundRun()
}