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Ship binary updates that download a patch instead of the whole file. binpatch generates and applies small binary delta patches — the same engine getsentry/cli uses to self-update.

binpatch | binpatch Skip to content binpatch Every binary update re-downloads the whole file. Patch only what moved — Electron apps, CLIs, agents, anything that's a single-file artifact. Get Started View on GitHub What you save Section titled “What you save” Bandwidth Median 96% fewer bytes per update across 8 real getsentry/cli releases. A 31 MB gzipped full download becomes a 1.3 MB patch on a typical release — and small bug-fix releases go as low as 0.9%. Wall time On slow links the savings are dramatic. At 5 Mbps the full download takes ~53 s; the patch download + apply takes ~4 s. At 25 M

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