{"id":67736,"date":"2023-06-06T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/?p=67736"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:10:53","slug":"may-2023-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/en\/2023\/06\/may-2023-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2023: What’s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“What’s New?” is a series of blog posts covering recent changes to Comet in more detail. This article covers the latest changes in Comet Voyager over May 2023.<\/em><\/p>

There were four Comet software releases during May, all in the weekly 23.3.x Voyager release series. The work this month included a mix of core application development as well as projects in the surrounding ecosystem:<\/p>

Learn about Chunking\u200b<\/a><\/h2>

Earlier in May, Mason gave a presentation of the history and overview of backup technologies, starting with simple file copies, through chain-based approaches, and culminating in the Content-Defined Chunking technology used by Comet.<\/p>

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Comet Server in Docker\u200b<\/a><\/h2>

The Self-Hosted Comet Server is now available as a Docker container<\/a>:<\/p>

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Docker is a popular system for running applications in “containers”. In the same way that freight shipping containers have a consistent size and shape, in order to fit within a larger shipping ecosystem, Docker containers also have some consistent behaviors in order to fit within a larger application runtime ecosystem: a “containerized” application has a standard way to start, stop, and log messages; how their storage and configuration is managed, how ingress and TLS termination works, and how sandboxing and permission restrictions are applied.<\/p>

By offering Comet Server as a Docker (OCI<\/a>) container, it should be easy for existing Docker users to get started with the Self-Hosted app and to manage it going forward. It also enables new functionality such as running multiple self-hosted Comet Servers on the same PC or VM. This does not replace the existing Self-Hosted installers, which will continue to be available.<\/p>

There has been a long-standing open feature request<\/a> for an official Docker container. Thank you to everyone who voted and commented on this feature, and a special thanks to “Hobadee<\/a>” for providing an unofficial solution to the community so far.<\/p>

C# .NET SDK and expanded API documentation\u200b<\/a><\/h2>

When you visit the the Comet Server web interface, your web browser loads and runs a “Single Page App” (SPA) locally inside your browser. This webapp speaks to the Comet Server backend solely using our public API. This API broadly covers every action you take within the Comet Server web interface, which means if you can do an action in the web interface, then it can be automated by a developer.<\/p>

The Comet Server API is comprehensively documented<\/a>, and during May we added many more comments and explainer notes to the constants, endpoints, and type definitions. Developers using the existing PHP SDK<\/a>, Javascript \/ Typescript SDK<\/a>, Ruby SDK<\/a>, and Go (Golang) SDK<\/a> will see these new comments appear in their IDEs during autocomplete.<\/p>

During May, we put the finishing touches on the latest addition to this group – a new public .NET SDK<\/a>. It’s available as CometBackup.CometAPI.SDK<\/code> on NuGet<\/a> and is developed in C# for use with any compliant .NET Standard 2.0 runtime, including .NET Framework 4.6, .NET Core 2.0, .NET 5, or any later versions.<\/p>

Getting started with the SDK should be straightforward:<\/p>

using (var client = new CometAPI(\"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8060\", \"admin-user\", \"admin-password\")) {<\/span>\n<\/span>    var users = client.AdminListUsers();<\/span>\n<\/span>    foreach (var user in users) {<\/span>\n<\/span>        Console.WriteLine(user);<\/span>\n<\/span>    }<\/span>\n<\/span>}<\/span>\n<\/span><\/code><\/pre>