Electrum: Add features "Auto-Update" and "Check for Updates"

[iostonykraft]

I'd like features that lets users automatically update the app and check for updates

[dabura667]

Auto-updates no. This is dangerous.

Check for updates button that allows the user to press a button to update, yes. Would be nice, but also could be dangerous for people who blindly download binaries without checking the signatures.

[ghost]

Will it not be possible to code it into Electrum to check the signatures of any update against those as published in order to make sure that the download is a 'valid' download?

User can then click on the update after which a screen/window will be shown to either verify the download and or to show a warning if the signatures does not match which should then also not allow the update to continue.

[ecdsa]

I do not know what to do with this.
A lot of users value privacy, and detecting updates goes against that.

[iostonykraft]

Sure, i get that. Not a big deal, you can leave it out. 

Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 6:53 AM -0400 from ThomasV [email protected]:

I do not know what to do with this.
A lot of users value privacy, and detecting updates goes against that.
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[lupa18]

give user the possibility of choose.

If you think it's against privacy, it could be default disabled

sometimes is very important due a security update for example, and security could be compromised without an update

[ecdsa]

this was added to version 3.3.3