04-26-2026, 10:29 PM
Forking third party code is definitely best avoided! We have a 20-year-old forked version of a database library at work, which is now thoroughly ingrained in some of our most important systems and will be exceedingly difficult to upgrade. I'm sure someone thought it made sense at the time, and maybe it did in the short term...
Version 2026-04 has been re-released, with a fix to the prevents-saves in 2.6.x issue
It survived a 59-year test while I was out in the Valley this afternoon, and would have gone longer had I not received a notice of upcoming emissions standards (I seem to have forgotten where to configure the game to ignore all messages, even red-important ones).
It may still be beneficial to restart the Secretary every decade or so, as it was trying to reload data when I switched reports an excessive number of times after 59 years. But there is no longer a critical issue.
Along the way, I also added another fix to prevent extremely unreliable cars - with dependability ratings in the single digits - from causing an underflow error and throwing off the World Fleet report, because more than 100% of them were failing to survive a year and the formula couldn't cope with that. Hopefully that is the last similar issue.
Note to users: Never buy the first year of a brand new model. Especially if it's a Stellantis product.
Version 2026-04 has been re-released, with a fix to the prevents-saves in 2.6.x issue
It survived a 59-year test while I was out in the Valley this afternoon, and would have gone longer had I not received a notice of upcoming emissions standards (I seem to have forgotten where to configure the game to ignore all messages, even red-important ones).
It may still be beneficial to restart the Secretary every decade or so, as it was trying to reload data when I switched reports an excessive number of times after 59 years. But there is no longer a critical issue.
Along the way, I also added another fix to prevent extremely unreliable cars - with dependability ratings in the single digits - from causing an underflow error and throwing off the World Fleet report, because more than 100% of them were failing to survive a year and the formula couldn't cope with that. Hopefully that is the last similar issue.
Note to users: Never buy the first year of a brand new model. Especially if it's a Stellantis product.