ARK Server Tools v1.6.09

• Remove the Primitive+ mod ID from the mod IDs returned by getModIds
• Prevent the user from blindly performing a user-install
• Don't load the user instance config if it's older than the global instance config, in case the user blindly performed a user-install

ARK Server Tools v1.6.08

• Check if lsof exists before using it
• Add prelogin and postlogin custom steamcmd commands
• Fix typo in isUpdateCancelRequested

ARK Server Tools v1.6.07

• Remove failing workshop items when downloading mods
• Don't migrate to main.cfg if arkSingleInstance is set
• Use arkSingleInstance to skip multi-instance

ARK Server Tools v1.6.06

• Allow single cronjob to execute command on multiple instances
• Work around SIGSTOP not notifying the parent
• sudo not needed to set CPU affinity on our own processes
• taskset uses non-standard option processing

ARK Server Tools v1.6.05

• Remove a temp file and prevent it from being picked back up
• Add arkCpuAffinity setting
• Fix an error in isModUpdateAvailable

ARK Server Tools v1.6.04

• Restart the server if it stops listening
• Download SteamCMD if necessary
• Silence errors killing arkmanager process
• Fix RCON authentication failed test

ARK Server Tools v1.6.03

• Disable version.txt support, as Wildcard has stopped updating that file in the Server builds
• Fix the "channel not found" test
• Use sudo if necessary when installing from commit
• Add environment variable support when upgrading

ARK Server Tools v1.6.02

• Remove files that don't exist in staging directory during update
• Get the latest mod version before requesting mod update
• Silence cp command during update
• Fix a couple of backup issues

ARK Server Tools v1.6.01

Fixes a few problems:

• Fix display of release notes
• Add support for restarting using service
• Fix error in isUpdateCancelRequested
• Fix a couple of issues with stopping when multiple instances share the same directory

ARK Server Tools v1.6

Fixes backported to 1.5:

• Use serverMapModId to set map name and MapModID option
• Return -1 from numplayers if server unreachable
• Fix a couple of potential issues with player count checking
• Fix an inconsistency between install.sh and arkmanager.init
• \n added to empty response message
• Fix update --force with arkStagingDir
• Fix --stagingdir= parameter
• Change systemd service type to forking
• Add RemainAfterExit=yes to arkmanager.service
• Create the saved arks directory if it doesn't exist
• Default non-privileged instance-config path
• Exclude Primitive+ from mod download and extraction
• Prevent server start during update
• Fix interaction between start and update
• Fix error typo
• Fix double-start when auto-update is enabled
• Restart the server if it was updated while running
• Touch app manifest on update
• Suffix autostart and autorestart with instance name
• Add .arktributetribe files to backup

New features in 1.6:

• Change .mod file output
• Use name from mod.info if mod name can't be retrieved
• Add Blob SHA to --version output
• Add handling for global options
• Add support for adding and removing cron jobs
• Process ark options in config file order
• Fix numPlayersConnected to use getQueryPort
• Handle multiple map files in mods
• Account for all lower-case names in some environments
• Parse output of download_workshop_item command
• Improve broadcast warning messages
• Allow stop and restart commands to take a reason
• Move .modbranch to __arkmanager_modbranch__.info
• Remove now unnecessary ulimit setup
• Fix typo in doBackup
• Change to the home directory
• Add cancelshutdown command
• Print SteamCMD command being executed
• Allow {time} in warning reason
• Add remove-mods command - removes mods from workshop directory
• Fix mod download not being retried
• Add --no-download option to update
• Clean up after SteamCMD if it returns successful
• Make arkmanager script sourceable
• Fix update --force with arkStagingDir
• Fix --stagingdir= parameter
• Add option to allow players to cancel restart
• Add support for -automanagedmods
• Change systemd service type to forking
• Add option to always auto-restart
• Add RemainAfterExit=yes to arkmanager.service
• Create the saved arks directory if it doesn't exist
• Add printconfig command
• Change config migration
• Improve restart behaviour using pid files
• Add --warnreason
• Stop warning if server is offline
• Use the A2S_PLAYER query to get active players
• Get version from version.txt
• Add installmods command
• Add support for arkmod_* in config
• Add enablemod and disablemod commands
• Add arkPriorityBoost
• Fix doRun writing the wrong PID to the run file
• Use full yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS timestamp
• Restart server if necessary after update check
• Allow multiple mods to be installed or uninstalled
• Add uninstallmods command
• Sync more files; accept missing version.txt
• Don't use the old ps -ef method with -clusterid
• Add old PID file; remove PID files on stop
• Sync more files; accept missing version.txt
• Use release tags by default for lastest version