Hyper: Prevent canary update notification for stable Linux users.

[chabou]

Context

On Linux, we don't use autoUpdater (and hazel) because it is not compatible.
Instead, we are making some request to a news feed https://hyper-news.now.sh with some params:
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/blob/5d0c6355e12ec8d9a89182556fa73227374b488f/app/notifications.js#L19-L24

Problem

updateChannel is not given as parameter. That's why stable users currently see notification about v2.1.1 release 😞

Solution

We should use this news feed only for important messages and not as an autoUpdater fallback.
Update notifications for linux should use same feed (hazel) than autoUpdater and notify users if update is available without downloading archive.

[leo]

Agreed @chabou 👍

Can you explain more about how we would use hazel on linux to notify users? Because I don't think autoUpdater works at all on that platform, so we can't use it to trigger notifications.

[chabou]

I would like to abstract electron's autoUpdater:

• On macOS/Windows, just configuring autoUpdater.
• On linux: fetching Hazel's URL by ourselves (with same frequency) and triggering the same rpc 'update available' call than autoUpdater update-downloaded event. I can retrieve needed informations from name and notes fields of Hazel response.

We only need to implement checkForUpdates() and event emitting. Easy game.

[leo]

Yea, that would probably the best solution. Great 👍

[javihero]

Is this fixed? I'm currently on a loop (my update channel is set to stable):

• I install 1.4.8, and It shows me the message to download 2.0.0-canary.8
• I install 2.0.0-canary.8 and It shows me the message to download 1.4.8

[KogAtlas]

I'm also seeing this on 2.0.0-canary.8

[ZeFifi]

Same problem as @javihero here!

[chabou]

@javihero @KogAtlas @ZeFifi @novafacing : You need to install 2.0.0-canary.X AND set your updateChannel: 'canary'.

Stable notifications are broken on Linux (in 1.4.8). It will be definitely fixed when 2.0.0 will be stable.

Notifications for stable (v1.4.8) availability when you are running a manually installed canary without switching update channel config, is attended.

[edwinramirez]

Hi people, sorry for opening this again but has this been fixed?
I'm using Hyper 2.0.0 (stable) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have my updateChannel set as updateChannel: 'stable',
But every time I start Hyper I get a red boxed notification announcing the availability of Version 2.1.0-canary.1
There is no way to permanently dismiss this notification and I don't know why I'm getting notified about it in the first place.

[MichaelFrieze]

I would also like to figure out how to deal with this notification.

[milos201]

Samer here, it is very annoying...