ARK Server Tools v1.6-pre1

Pre-release of v1.6

ARK Server Tools v1.5

Some of the features in this version are:

• Compressing backups so they take up less space
• Downloading updates to a staging directory before applying
• Multi-instance support is now a core functionality, and each command can apply to multiple instances
• Instance config files can be stored in /etc/arkmanager/instances
• Settings from a main instance will no longer affect those of other instances - they are stored in their own instance config file.
• Added support for automatically updating on restart
• Show a spinner when updating

ARK Server Tools v1.4

ARK Server tools v1.4 adds a number of features including:

• Mod installation and update support
• Automatic restart of the server if it crashes after being online
• Allowing the update command to take multiple options
• Allowing arkmanager to be run as root when upgrading
• Automatically re-executing as the $steamcmd_user when run as root
• Multiple instance support when running under systemd
• Adding missing variables to and removing deprecated variables from the config when upgrading
• Querying the Steam API and presenting an arkservers.net URL when querying the status of the server
• Support for Multi-homed servers, where a different instance runs on each public IP address on the server

ARK Server Tools v1.3

This release includes RCON features, support for multiple servers on the same machine, world backup capabilities, and support for map mods.

Major release (pre RCON)

This is a release in preparation to the RCON features which will be shipped with v1.3

To update your ARK Server Tools run:

curl -s http://git.io/vtf5N | sudo bash -s steam

Remember to manually update your configuration file in /etc/arkmanager/arkmanager.cfg!

If you prefer, you can delete the old one before the update, and the new one will be copied.

Major update

To update your ARK Server Tools run:

curl -s http://git.io/vtf5N | sudo bash -s steam

Remember to manually update your configuration file in /etc/arkmanager/arkmanager.cfg!

If you prefer, you can delete the old one before the update, and the new one will be copied.

First stable release

It could be not really stable, any fix will be sent as hotfix to this branch directly.