Self Updating Binary

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  • go-sparkle

    Go bindings for Sparkle

  • gobuilder

    Discontinued Automatic Golang building project

  • https://github.com/luzifer/gobuilder this is a good package but hasn’t been updated in a while. You can build something around this.

  • InfluxDB

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  • bindiff

  • For the diff thing you can use this - https://github.com/asahasrabuddhe/bindiff

  • go-github-selfupdate

    Binary self-update mechanism for Go commands using GitHub

  • I have used https://github.com/rhysd/go-github-selfupdate before with github releases. Theres a ton of different packages that do similar things and I’m sure there’s one that can do it from an arbitrary source url.

  • selfupdate

    Build self-updating Golang programs (by fynelabs)

  • You can check out https://github.com/fynelabs/selfupdate . It does not need any background services or what not. Just integrate in your application in maybe 10 lines. We do maintain it and it runs on Linux, windows and macos. It require an ed25519 and a tool is provided to generate the signature. Put those file on a http server somewhere and you're done.

  • fyneselfupdate

    An extension of the `selfupdate` repository that handles certain Fyne integrations

  • We also have some ui integration for fyne here https://github.com/fynelabs/fyneselfupdate and a tool to automate the deployment (push a tag on git, build and deploy with a cdn in front) of that is of interest to you to.

  • selfupdate

    Build self-updating Go programs

  • Here’s another option https://github.com/minio/selfupdate

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • overseer

    Monitorable, gracefully restarting, self-upgrading binaries in Go (golang)

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