Update of user agent database

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budow...@gmail.com

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Aug 1, 2019, 6:25:26 PM8/1/19
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Hi,
During starting divolte in the log there is written

[UserAgentParserAndCache]: User agent parser data version: 20141024-01

Does it mean that divolte has user agent database from 2014 year?
Are there any plans to update i
t?

Friso van Vollenhoven

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Aug 3, 2019, 4:06:22 PM8/3/19
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Unfortunately, yes. The UA database is that old. The project that Divolte relies on for UA parsing no longer provides updates, and has actually broken the update process in a way that when enabling auto-updates, it would overwrite the UA DB with an empty one. Basically, the UA parser project that Divolte uses changed licensing and pursued a different business model. Divolte was never modified to use a different provider. It should, but at present there doesn't really appear to be a viable alternative that can be used off line (i.e. doesn't involve external API calls). I presume many users only map the raw UA string and parse it at a later stage in their pipeline.


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