3.6.0.3

[Ghost-chu]

Please update to this version

Hi there, before the change log content, I want kindly ask you to upgrade your Hikari instance to 3.6.0.3 and I will show you for why.

An E-mail from Crowdin

Today (2022/12/30), I have received a e-mail from Crowdin Team and here is the content:

Hi there,

Greetings from Crowdin, hope you're going great🎄

Sorry to bother you during the holiday season, but our team did an annual review and we noticed that your team is actively using [Over-The-Air Content Delivery](https://support.crowdin.com/content-delivery/)feature, which is a paid option. The price is based on the number of requests ($3/1M requests) and the transferred data ($2/10GB) - if you have up to 1M requests and 10GB of data transfer, CDN is free.

According to our database, there were already sent 19M requests and 50GB of data was transferred for a total amount of 72 USD. You can also see this information in the [Payments](https://crowdin.com/settings#payments)tab, and I'm also sharing the document with detailed statistics about your OTA usage in the last months; please find it attached.

There is no need for you to pay the previous debt, but as you are already aware that CDN is a paid option, we kindly ask you to remove CDN from your code at your earliest convenience (preferably within the next month), so no new debt will grow or we can discuss the suitable ways for you to pay for future OTA usage if you would like to keep using it

Please let me know your thoughts on the matter

Looking forward to hearing from you,

And the attachment cdn_usage.txt:

+----------+----------+-----------------------+
| date     | requests | transferred_gigabytes |
+----------+----------+-----------------------+
| Apr 2022 |  1241624 |                 4.729 |
| May 2022 |  1374644 |                 3.768 |
| Jun 2022 |  2477846 |                 6.025 |
| Jul 2022 |  2649011 |                 6.571 |
| Aug 2022 |  2814239 |                 6.446 |
| Sep 2022 |  2255808 |                 4.454 |
| Oct 2022 |  2257621 |                 5.098 |
| Nov 2022 |  2087014 |                 4.902 |
| Dec 2022 |  1924092 |                 7.711 |

I was shocked that I never noticed Crowdin Over-The-Air Distribution as a paid feature. Because it is freely available and unlimited in my Open Source Plans account.

Then I have a quick re-check for the Pricing pages and Crowdin's KB, I still can't find a description of Over-The-Air as a paid feature and its billing standard.

Well, as the email said, "Now I know that it is a charging function", so I deleted the Distributions of Remake and Hikari from the Crowdin Control Panel, and hoped Crowdin would not charge me any more.

After disable the Distributions

After that, I replied this email:

I'm sorry I didn't realize that my program has so many users and CDN requests!

Follow your advice, I have already removed Distributions from Crowdin's control panel after I received this mail and I will also remove Crowdin Over-The-Air related codes from the next version.

I am very grateful for your willingness to waive my bill for last month.

Since I can't control my users to upgrade to a new version that without Crowdin OTA functionality, I want to know if I will still receive bills from Crowdin OTA functionality after I removed all Distributions from Crowdin control panel?

Thank you for informing me about it.

Later, I was so shocked by Crowdin Team's reply.

Hi there,

If deleting only distribution (but keeping it in your code still) there will be no data transfer, but there will still be requests

In general, if you do not plan to use it as a paid feature, it would be great to delete it from your code as well

Well, I can't force anyone to update their plugin, this is users right.

So I continued to contact Crowdin Team and got the following reply.

Thank you for your quick reply!
My code uses GPLv3 license and distributes precompiled JARs in binary form.
I will release a new version that removes OTA functions as soon as possible, but I cannot force users to upgrade to a new version (if users are unwilling to uninstall my software from their devices). I have not designed telemetry and remote disabled functions for my software.
At the same time, my Distributions ID has been distributed along with the source code for a long time.
So I want to confirm the following questions to you:
1. Whether the Over The Air function can be completely disabled by myself or Crowdin Team, or whether I must pay the bill for any invalid request.
2. If I delete the Crowdin Project associated with it and recreate it, will the invalid request of the project before deletion continue to be charged.
3. If I do not pay the relevant bills, only the Over The Air function will be disabled or the entire account (even for the Open Source plan).
4. Whether Open Source plans to have a free Over The Air quota, because for a long time in the past, I did not notice that Crowdin mentioned the cost of Over The Air.

5. Earlier, I agreed to participate in the test invitation of Crowdin Enterprise and created the project and account (Open Source plan). But I didn't really use it because I was an open source project.
Should I contact customer support and delete my account and project in Crowdin Enterprise to avoid unnecessary bills?

Reply:

Hi Ghost,

Thanks and yes, we understand you cannot force users to use the new version of the app, so for now, what's needed for you is just to remove the OTA functions from your app's code and release the new version. As long as users switch the version, the number of requests will decrease

Currently, we calculate all the requests sent to the distribution and even if you remove the account\project\disctibition, the requests will still be sent to AWS (Over-the-Air technology is built on top of AWS infrastructure)

I'm afraid we also cannot stop the requests sent to AWS as they are external, and we cannot simply control that on our end so a solution for now, let's agree to the following:
you remove OTA feature from your code and release the new version of the app;
we keep monitoring the number of requests received from your users;
in a month, we'll get back to you with the latest statistic - there is a big chance the number of requests will drop significantly and you will fit the free tier of CDN usage (up to 1M requests and 10GB of data transfer).
during this month, there won't be a need to pay any bill for CDN;
you're also welcome to keep your accounts in Crowdin :)

Does it sound fine to you?

Alright, I agree.

So here we go

Since 3.6.0.3, the function of CrowdinOTA is completely disabled from plugin.

For other versions, you should not be able to get the latest translated files from the cloud because we terminated Distributions, the backup translation of the plug-in will replace CrowdinOTA, and you do not need to make any other changes.

For earlier versions that do not yet support offline backup translation, the plug-in may stop working, you must upgrade to any version that support offline translations.

Once again, I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

What about future

Sandtechnology and I are building our own infrastructure for QuickShop, which we are actively discussing and conducting technical verification.
Once we have a viable alternative, we will test it and add it to the official version.

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3.6.0.3 Changelog

Removed

• Removed Crowdin Over-The-Air translations update services.
  • Both Hikari and Reremake has affected, across all versions.

New Features

• New EliteMobs compatibility modules
  • This module will prevent player create or purchase a shop that trading items with EliteMobs's Soulbound enchantments to avoid trade scam.

Bug Fixes

Everything looks great, no bugs found.

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This discussion was created from the release 3.6.0.3.