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[Grindfather]

Unsure why this is happening to some people.
Would be useful to know if only this version checker is broken for people, or if the Nexerelin version checker is also broken (Press V in the campaign).

Only thing i could suspect is some issue with the windows firefall or some antivirus blocking it.
Though might also be good to know what java version people are using with it.

Mine is broken, too My nex version checker works, but both are "failing to load master version file from URL."

[Grindfather]

For everyone having version checker errors where it is not reading the URL's on git, update your version of java in the main JRE folder. Lukas found that Java7 no longer communicates with git.

Update to 8 or 23. Link below.

https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=25974.msg386514#msg386514:~:text=3.%20Updating%20Java,-Starsector

[Lukas04]

Thanks to the help from the Discord user "Dash", ive been able to figure the issue out.
A recent update from Github made Java7 unable to communicate with the website. This means that if you use Java7, it wont be able to load any version checker mods that use github for the feature, which is most of them.

You can update to Java8 or higher to fix the issue:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=25974.msg386514#msg386514:~:text=3.%20Updating%20Java,-Starsector

As Starsector will update towards Java17 in the next patch by default, this will likely not be fixed till then.

[SpaceDrake]

Hell, given how Java7 is generally considered deprecated and even Starsector is moving on from it, were I in your shoes I'd feel justified filing this under "will not fix" unless the next formal Starsector update ends up taking a year+ to come out. It's about to be a moot point.