Kap offers unsupported update

[tomscholz]

Platform: OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
Kap Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1.170)
Kap offers me to update to a newer version that isn't supported by El Capitan.
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Expected behavior

Kap shouldn't offer users to update to a not compatible version.

Workaround

Check if the current OS version is compatible with the newer version of Kap

[albinekb]

Thanks for reporting this! Unfortunately there's no way to fix this without requiring significant effort, that effort is better focused on supporting the latest OS and working on fixing features that will benefit our upgrading users. Not worth the effort needed to fix this IMHO. Upgrade your OS. 👍

[tomscholz]

@albinekb Haha ok. I understand.

Upgrade your OS. 👍

naaaah. I'm fine with el capitan ;)

[albinekb]

Thank you for understanding 🙏😊 I urge you to upgrade, the new Kap is amazing. 👌😉

[justsml]

Is there an option to disable checking for updates in v1?

I'm running El Capitan v10.11.6 (15G17023) and it does the forced upgrade - which breaks Kap every time I reboot.
It's a pain in the ass to re-install the old version so often. 😿

I promise I'm not just a complainer, if someone can point me in the right direction, I'd love to submit a PR.

[albinekb]

@justsml thanks for that, but we do not want to add an option to stop updates, we don't want people to stay on old versions, because it will be hell to maintain.

What I suggest you to do is to block kap-updates.now.sh in your firewall/hosts file, here's how to do it https://www.wikihow.com/Block-a-Website-on-Mac 🙏 Let me know if that works for you or if you want help 👍 Thanks for understanding

[yamsellem]

@albinekb may you consider adding an option to stop updates /only/ on release 1.0.1? (1.0.1.2 maybe)

Some of us are blocked on El Captain (mid 2011 macs, for exemple — which still works amazingly well), each time we use kap, we need to delete the forced update to 2.0 and download again 1.0.

Offering an autoupdate is nice, forcing users to get non compatible updates can be disappointing in the long run. Thanks a lot for considering this one again.

[skllcrn]

We don't have the resources to support old releases @yamsellem, which means we won't be releasing any patches for v2.2.0 or earlier releases. Additionally, official support for Kap is limited to macOS 10.12 or never. This isn't the answer you were hoping for, but I hope you can understand our need to ruthlessly prioritise in order to get the best Kap to as many people as possible.

Your best best is to apply the workaround @albinekb suggested above:

What I suggest you to do is to block kap-updates.now.sh in your firewall/hosts file, here's how to do it https://www.wikihow.com/Block-a-Website-on-Mac

[yamsellem]

@skllcrn I completely understand your priorities & editing /etc/hosts is perfectly fine to me.
Thanks for your quick solution to the issue — autoupdates are not fetched anymore on 1.0.1, perfect!

[albinekb]

Glad that it helped @yamsellem! I think you can get Mojave running on your 2011 mac if you'd like, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLVvP3WCCI0