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Include current version in update check explicitly #2967

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Include current version in update check explicitly
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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion electron/src/electron-main.js
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Expand Up @@ -112,7 +112,16 @@ function startAutoUpdate(update_base_url) {
// 204 No Content. On windows it takes a base path and looks for
// files under that path.
if (process.platform == 'darwin') {
electron.autoUpdater.setFeedURL(update_base_url + 'macos/');
// include the current version in the URL we hit. Electron doesn't add
// it anywhere (apart from the User-Agent) so it's up to us. We could
// (and previously did) just use the User-Agent, but this doesn't
// rely on NSURLConnection setting the User-Agent to what we expect,
// and also acts as a convenient cache-buster to ensure that when the
// app updates it always gets a fresh value to avoid update-looping.
electron.autoUpdater.setFeedURL(
update_base_url +
'macos/?localVersion=' + encodeURIComponent(electron.app.getVersion())
);
} else if (process.platform == 'win32') {
electron.autoUpdater.setFeedURL(update_base_url + 'win32/' + process.arch + '/');
} else {
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