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With the release of KB2661254 on August 14th, 2012 any client that uses a certificate less than 1024 bits in length will cease to receive updates from LUP.

A more detailed write-up by Lawrence Garvin can be found here:
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/application-and-server_tht/patchzone/blog/2012/07/31/3rd-party-updates-with-wsus-local-publishing-recent-microsoft-certificate-changes-may-break-your-process-if-left-unpatched

Version 1.1 has just been released. The main focus for this release was to support multiple languages. I received four official translations and used Google translate to provide eight others. If you are able and willing to provide or improve a translation please send me a private message. Please include your email address in the PM so I can respond to you.

Version 1.1
-Globalization with translations for Catalan, Danish, French, and German.
-Add and remove multiple updates when exporting or selecting for prerequisite and superseded.
-Support for approval deadlines.
-Show locally published updates regardless of vendor.
-Created updates by right clicking on Vendor or Product categories in the tree view.
-Approve updates for optional installation.

I have just finished work on enabling LUP to be translated to other languages. If you are able to help with a translation please contact me either via my sourceforge profile or in the help forums.

After almost exactly a year, here is version 1.0 which I'm listing as stable. There's still plenty to do but it appears that this is working for a lot of people and most crashes have been worked out.

This will hopefully be the last beta version; for the next I hope to label it as a stable release. To that end, unless it is trivial, no additional features will be added and bug fixes and UI quirks will be the sole focus.

• Added options for percentages to only use approved updates and to inherit approvals.
• Added option to demote imported updates to prevent automatically approval rules.
• Allow actions on multiple packages.
• Added package type which determines which details the package contains.
• Improved return codes handling.
• Added Origin URL field which allows meta-data only updates.
• Export update catalogs.
• General code cleanup (Strict:On Infer:Off).
• Several GUI enhancements.
• Several bugfixes.

After 7 versions and several months of successful publishing, I am calling this release Beta. There are still plenty of bugs, but the core functionality works.

• Fixed issue with superseding updates.
• Fixed issue with saving SDP XML file.
• Import update catalogs from CAB files.
• Re-Sign packages.
• Export and Import individual updates including their binaries*.
• Several bugfixes.

*This is intended for internal use only to move between test and production environments. Distributing the exported files is very likely a violation of most user agreements.

• Import update catalogs (CAB extraction not currently supported).
• Set prerequisite and superseded updates.
• Publish only metadata.
• Add transforms to command line automatically.
• Several bugfixes.

ALPHA Version 0.6

• Reports can be exported interactively and from commandline.
• Package can include subdirectories for supporting files.
• EXE packages now support custom return codes.
• Several bugfixes and GUI enhancements.

ALPHA Version 0.5

• Launched documentation Wiki.
• Added link for help forum and wiki to Help menu.
• Allow XML generated by the API to be edited manually.
• Computer percentages now only include approved packages.
• Several bugfixes.

ALPHA Version 0.4

• Binary installer is now available.
• MSI rules are now supported. (kdixon)
• Rules can be saved, imported, and exported.
• Default rules for MSI installs.
• Metadata can be edited directly.
• Code cleanup and refactoring. (kdixon)
• Several GUI enhancements.
• Several bugfixes.

In this release:

• added support for multiple parent servers.
• added EXPERIMENTAL support for child servers. Please post your results to the forums.
• several GUI enhancements.
• added option to save the last selection.
• column spacing and sort order are now saved.

In this new release:

• several GUI bug fixes.
• several GUI enhancements.
• support for nested groups.
• clean out the temp folder after publishing an update.
• added a computer group status report.

I would appreciate any feedback you can give to help me gauge if the program is stable enough to release binaries.