Patch shipped: v1.6.225–228 — trustworthy backups, real supporter widgets, honest tier labels
Posted by tomspark
Big batch tonight: 1. Backups got serious. Every backup now captures clean copies of your apps' databases using each database's own tools — copying a database mid-write can silently produce backups that won't restore, and that can't happen anymore. If scheduled backups start failing you get a loud warning instead of silence, the panel shows when the next backup runs, and if your backups live on the same disk they protect, SparkBox says so plainly. 2. We then ran a full backup-and-restore drill on our own test hardware before announcing — and found three restore bugs ourselves, before any user hit them. Fixed in v1.6.226–228 and re-drilled until the restore came back perfect with zero hand-fixing. That's the standard going forward: restores get rehearsed, not assumed. 3. For supporters: three real widgets (Storage, live Downloads queue, Ads Blocked), your custom home layout now follows you across browsers, the chat shows what Tom AI actually did this month ("21 checks · 4 fixes"), and your license panel finally shows your real tier — some Backers and Legends were being shown as "Free" or "Founding". Sorry about that one. Get it all with: sudo sparkbox update