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updater broken in windows? #125
Description
It seems that windows does not have access to the sophisticated inline updater which pulls the binary itself and applies it.
When i click the button i am just redirected to the github repo where i have to download the installer myself and have to manually install it.
Is this intendet behaviour?
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fix: browser refs, drop marker, in-app update, dead popup links (#123 #…
amirlehmam commentedon Jul 28, 2026
No, that was not intended — and it's fixed in v0.38.0.
Windows was never missing the updater. electron-updater has been running the whole time; it just had no UI. The badge you clicked came from a separate, notify-only GitHub poll whose only action was ever
openExternal(release page), so from the outside it looked exactly like "this platform doesn't get real updates". Two update paths, and the one you could see was the one that couldn't install anything.The badge now drives the real updater:
Restart; clicking it (or accepting the dialog) restarts into the new version.WMUX_DISABLE_UPDATER=1, or a release published withoutlatest.yml— it falls back to opening the release page, same as before. That path is now the exception rather than the only behaviour.One deliberate detail: clicking the badge skips the 3-day quarantine window. That window exists to stop a malicious release from installing itself unattended before it can be spotted and yanked (#29) — it is not meant to stop you from installing a version you just read the number of and clicked. The unattended path still waits it out unchanged, and the install still needs your confirmation. Without this, a freshly published release would have shown a badge that did nothing for three days, which is the bug you filed wearing a different hat.
Note that the update from 0.37.0 still has to be done by hand — the fix ships in the version you're updating to. From 0.38.0 onward the badge does it for you.