We've just released Android Studio 0.8.12 to the canary channel (Note: There are no incremental patches to update to 0.8.12; you will need to download it separately -- and the reasons for that are explained below.) The main improvements in this release are:
No PatchesWe've found and fixed several significant bugs in the patching mechanism. One of these bugs meant that upgrading to a new version, while resulting in a functionally identical installation, would also result in slightly different binary contents (for example, some timestamps inside .jar files would differ). This meant that the actual binary signatures would not match, which broke for example the application signature checks. We have now found and fixed that bug, but because there are many different binary variations of a given previous version, we cannot create a single patch to update to the new version. Therefore, for this version we will require a full download of the IDE. From this version forward we should be able to accurately install updates while preserving the application signatures. Another common problem many users encountered on Windows was that the patch would refuse to install because files to be updated were still in use, typically by the Gradle daemon. We've now improved the patch dialog such that it finds and identifies the processes locking the files, and offering to kill them directly: Since we are not releasing patches for this version, this improvement won't be apparent until our future patch updates, but this has been a frequently reported issue so we are happy to have finally resolved it -- and we are also working to make sure the Gradle daemon does not lock these files in the first place.) InstallationAs noted above, you cannot update via the builtin patch mechanism to this version; you have to download and install the version from the Android Studio 0.8.12 Downloads Page. Problems?If you run into problems, be sure to check the Known Issues page which we'll update as necessary. |
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