Vukalink 1.1.19: updates that check themselves, and what comes next

Version 1.1.19 of Vukalink for Windows is the release this website launches with. Here is what is in it, and what is not yet.

Automatic updates

Vukalink now looks for a new version shortly after it starts and every six hours after that. An update is downloaded in the background and checked twice: once for our signature, once for the file's SHA-256 fingerprint. A file that fails either check is refused.

The program installs an update only when no session is running. A 30-second notice appears first, with a Cancel button that postpones it. Both automatic checking and automatic installing can be switched off under Settings, General.

One limit: Windows asks for administrator permission once for each update. On a computer where nobody is present, the update waits at that prompt and the older version keeps running. A fully silent updater is possible later.

The Free version

When the 60-day trial ends, Vukalink no longer stops connecting. It becomes the Free version: 90 minutes of sessions and then a 30-minute break, files up to 1 GB, two unattended computers. Receiving support has no limit.

Prices and payment in the program

The Subscription page now shows the plans and the M-Pesa till number, 6993823, alongside the key field and the code of the computer.

What comes next

• macOS and Linux: in development.
• iOS: planned.
• Automatic key delivery and card payments: written and tested; waiting on the payment provider's final approval.
• A code-signing certificate, so that Windows stops describing us as an unknown publisher.

We have not put dates on these, because we would sooner be late than wrong. This page is where each one will be announced when it is real.

Getting it

New users can download the installer from this site. Existing installations of 1.1.18 and later will update themselves from here.