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The latest version of Contrac is now up on OpenRepos and github. For some reason there was an interruption in the hourly diagnosis key archives being released and users noticed failed downloads. The hourly downloads are now working again, but since the daily archives worked throughout, I've switched the app to using those instead. Another nice improvement is that the download region can also now be chosen, so the Europe-wide keys can be requested instead of those just from Germany.

It's epiphany and that means time to remove the decorations from the site. As it happens, we'd already moved on from Christmas snow to New Year fireworks. Now we're back to bog-standard-bokeh. As we plunge through the gloomy winter months (I actually like a bit of gloom), I reflect that the next scheduled site-styling isn't until Halloween. That's rather a long way away. I should think of some other things to celebrate in between and if you get bored of bokeh, don't forget you can always tweak the style yourself.

An updated version of Contrac is now available from OpenRepos (source on github). This latest version improves the diagnosis key matching algorithm. One of the consequences of the change, and the increasing quantity of keys coming from the servers, is that the length of time to process the keys has increased significantly. I've therefore also moved the processing into a background thread so that it doesn't interfere with the sending and receiving of keys while the processing takes place.