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feat(update): background checks and an update button - #1425
One update flow, the one Codex and VS Code use: check in the background, download in the background, show an update button, install on the user's click.
Before: a check once per 24 hours of continuous uptime, which most sessions never reach, answered by a modal box, plus three update modes in the tray.
Now:
Check: a minute after launch, then every six hours. The manual Check for Updates stays.
Download: in the background, no dialog.
Signal: a blue update button in the HUD bar and the editor's top bar, plus a tray item Update to .
Install: only on a click, which restarts into the new version. Quitting installs nothing, so no update ends a take, an export or an agent's session on its own.
Broken updater: the GitHub release lookup still finds the version, and the button opens the release page.
Agent-only users:openscreen mcp looks the release up at most every six hours, cached. When a newer version exists, its instructions tell the agent to inform the user once and never to update OpenScreen itself.
Removed: the three update modes and their tray submenu.
User journey per install
Install
How it updates
What the user does
Microsoft Store (also winget install --source msstore)
The Store, in the background. It applies the update once OpenScreen is closed.
Nothing. No button in the app.
Windows .exe, per user
The app downloads it, then shows the button.
Clicks the button. The app restarts.
Windows .exe, all users
Same.
Clicks the button and accepts the UAC prompt.
macOS .dmg
Same.
Clicks the button. The app must be in Applications, or the click says to move it there.
macOS Homebrew cask
Same as the DMG. brew upgrade works too.
Clicks the button, or runs brew upgrade.
Linux AppImage
Same.
Clicks the button.
Linux .deb, .rpm, .pacman
Same.
Clicks the button and enters the password.
Nix
Nix.
Upgrades through Nix. No button.
Agent only, through openscreen mcp
The agent tells the user once that a version is out.
None yet. The updater only runs in a packaged build, so the button cannot be shown from a dev build.
Testing
Unit: the MCP notice and its cache, the editor's update button. Existing updater tests unchanged and green.
Checks: both typechecks, Biome, i18n:check.
Not run: the e2e pass on an installed build. The new Updating in place section of manual-e2e-checklist.md covers it: when it is mandatory, how to get a newer version to update to (RC path everywhere, a local feed on Windows and Linux), and the checks. AGENTS.md points computer-use agents at it.
Updates download in the background and appear as a versioned button in the app, system tray, and launch HUD when recording is inactive. Click the button to install; installation won’t start automatically.
Self-updating builds check one minute after launch, then every six hours. If an update can’t be applied in-app, you can open its release page.
Packaged, self-updating builds can show MCP sessions a notice about a newer release, directing you to update through the app.
Changes
Update mode settings are no longer available; updates follow the same download-and-click-to-install flow.
Documentation
Updated the FAQ and testing guidance with the update flow and release-candidate testing details.
… on quit
Builds that update themselves checked once per 24 hours of uptime, which
most sessions never reach, and answered with a modal dialog. Now:
- The first check runs a minute after launch, then every six hours.
- A background find never opens a dialog. It becomes a blue update button
in the HUD bar and the editor's top bar, and an "Update to <version>"
tray item. The click restarts into a downloaded update, or downloads
one the "Notify" mode only found.
- "Download and install updates automatically" is now the default, and it
installs the downloaded update silently when the app quits, with no
relaunch. Not where the install needs rights (per-machine NSIS, deb,
rpm, pacman), and not while a CLI run is alive: the NSIS installer ends
every process of this executable, an agent's `openscreen mcp` included.
A click on the button is the user deciding, so it skips that veto.
- If the self-updater fails, the release lookup still finds the version
and the button opens the release page, so a broken updater cannot
strand users on an old build.
A user who reaches OpenScreen only through an agent never opens the app, so
never sees its update button and was never updated. On an install that
updates itself, `openscreen mcp` now looks the latest release up on GitHub,
at most every six hours, in the background and cached in userData. When
the cache names a newer version, a line opens its instructions: tell the
user once that opening the app installs it, and never update OpenScreen
yourself. The process updates nothing: stdout is the protocol, and the
installer would end it mid-session.
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The app replaces update-mode settings with scheduled background checks and update badges. Users can initiate update actions from app controls or the tray. Eligible packaged MCP sessions use cached release data to provide update notices.
Update-mode configuration and persistence are removed. The main process schedules an initial check after one minute and recurring checks every six hours, publishes available or ready badges, and handles update actions through IPC and the tray.
The editor and launch HUD show version-specific update buttons when a badge exists. The browser shim supplies no-op update methods. Styles and translations support the update controls and labels.
Update testing and documentation AGENTS.md, technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md, website/docs/faq.md, website/i18n/*/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/faq.md
The manual checklist adds installed-build update checks. Guidance and FAQs describe check timing, background downloads, and installation after a user click.
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Release lookup and notice logic electron/mcp/update-notice.ts, electron/mcp/update-notice.test.ts
The lookup module reads and validates cached release data, determines whether a notice applies, and refreshes stale data. Tests cover notice conditions, cache behavior, and refresh timing.
Eligible packaged MCP runs use a cached lookup to add a notice to server instructions and start a background lookup refresh. Tests and documentation describe the notice and cache behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant cliMain
participant updateNotice
participant refreshReleaseLookup
participant GitHub
cliMain->>updateNotice: Build notice from cached release lookup
cliMain->>refreshReleaseLookup: Start background refresh
refreshReleaseLookup->>GitHub: Fetch latest release
refreshReleaseLookup->>refreshReleaseLookup: Write release data to cache
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The update path is the one a release cannot fix afterwards: a build with a
broken updater can only be left through it. The checklist gains a section
that says when it is mandatory, why a dev build cannot run it, how to get a
newer version to update to (the RC path on every platform, a local generic
feed on Windows and Linux), how to tell an install happened, and the checks:
button, click, install on quit, elevation, a live agent session, the
release-page fallback and the agent-only notice. AGENTS.md points agents at
it from the computer-use mechanics.
Prunes the update path down to what Codex and VS Code do: check in the
background, download in the background, show an update button, and
install when the user clicks it. Removed:
- the three update modes and their tray submenu (notify, download,
download and install), with `update-settings.ts` and the four labels in
every locale. Every install now downloads in the background.
- the install on quit, with the elevation probe and the live CLI session
check it needed. Nothing installs unless the button is clicked, so no
update can end a take, an export or an agent's `openscreen mcp` session
on its own, nor ask for an admin password on the way out.
The FAQ, the e2e checklist, AGENTS.md and the MCP doc follow.
EtienneLescot
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feat(update): background checks, an update button and install on quit
feat(update): background checks and an update button
Oct 28, 2026
Let the failed-updater fallback find newer release candidates.
When the self-update feed fails on an installed RC, runBackgroundUpdateCheck calls checkLatestRelease. That call queries /releases/latest, which excludes prereleases. If the latest stable release is older than the installed RC, the fallback reports "current" and sets no badge. A newer RC therefore gets no release-page link, although the code comment says the user is "still pointed at the release page instead of being left on this version for good." Fixing this needs a release-list lookup that selects the newest RC. That change is not a localized edit, so this comment proposes none.
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Review comment at @electron/main.ts around lines 802 - 805:
Update the failed-feed fallback in runBackgroundUpdateCheck to use a
release-list lookup that includes prereleases and selects the newest RC, rather
than relying on checkLatestRelease’s stable-only result. Pass an available
candidate’s version and release URL through the existing setUpdateBadge path.
Minor · Suppress expired cached MCP notices. · cliMain.ts:414-416
updateNotice checks only whether the cached version is newer. It ignores checkedAt, so an expired cache can report a withdrawn release as available. The notice only tells the user to open OpenScreen; the app performs its own update lookup and the MCP process does not install the cached version.
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Review comment at @electron/cli/cliMain.ts around lines 414 - 416:
Update the updateNotice flow in cliMain.ts to validate the cached release
lookup’s checkedAt against the existing cache-expiration policy before showing a
notice. Suppress expired cached notices while preserving the current behavior
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Review comments at @electron/auto-updater.ts:
- Line 54: Update the setter that assigns loadedUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit so
switching to install-on-quit also registers the quit handler for a ready update;
do not rerun downloadSelfUpdate(). Add a regression test covering a download
completed while auto-install-on-quit is disabled, followed by switching to
download-and-install and quitting the app.
Review comments at @electron/cli/sessionData.ts:
- Around line 80-83: Update the catch in hasLiveCliSession so only an ENOENT
error from readdirSync returns false; treat other directory-read errors as a
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- Around line 89-93: Update hasLiveCliSession so a missing or unreadable owner
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Review comments at @electron/main.ts:
- Around line 840-841: In the available-update branch of applyUpdate, check
installBlock before calling downloadAndInstall; when the result is "recording",
show the blocked-install message with showBlockedInstall and skip the download,
otherwise continue with downloadAndInstall.
- Line 810: Update the `plan.action === "none"` path to clear `updateBadge` only
when its state is `available`, then return as before. Preserve any `ready` badge
representing a downloaded installer.
Review comments at @electron/mcp/update-notice.test.ts:
- Around line 56-63: Add an MCP initialization test that exercises the update
notice through serveMcpOverStdio and createOpenScreenMcpServer, rather than
testing only mcpInstructions directly. Assert the notice reaches the initialized
server instructions so the test covers forwarding through both functions.
Review comments at @electron/mcp/update-notice.ts:
- Around line 54-55: Update refreshReleaseLookup so it reuses a cached release
lookup only when now is at or after cached.checkedAt and the entry is still
within RELEASE_LOOKUP_INTERVAL_MS; future-dated entries must trigger a fresh
lookup. Add a test confirming fetchLatest is called when checkedAt is greater
than now.
Review comments at @technical-documentation/architecture/mcp-server.md:
- Line 67: Update the MCP update notice and the MCP server architecture
paragraph to say users install updates through the update button in the
OpenScreen app, not by merely opening the app. Keep the notice accurate for
Notify mode, where installation requires user action.
Review comments at @website/docs/faq.md:
- Line 37: Update the update-behavior entry in the English FAQ and its seven
translations to qualify install-on-quit behavior: explain that updates wait for
the user to click the update button when installation requires administrator
rights, including the listed Windows and Linux installers, or when a CLI command
is running. Preserve the existing update-check and Update Settings information.
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Minor comments:
Review comments at @electron/cli/cliMain.ts:
- Around line 414-416: Update the updateNotice flow in cliMain.ts to validate
the cached release lookup’s checkedAt against the existing cache-expiration
policy before showing a notice. Suppress expired cached notices while preserving
the current behavior for fresh cache entries.
Review comments at @electron/main.ts:
- Around line 802-805: Update the failed-feed fallback in
runBackgroundUpdateCheck to use a release-list lookup that includes prereleases
and selects the newest RC, rather than relying on checkLatestRelease’s
stable-only result. Pass an available candidate’s version and release URL
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- A background check that finds the running version current clears an
'available' badge, so the button never offers a release that was pulled.
- The click asks the recording veto before downloading, not after.
- A cached release lookup dated in the future no longer counts as fresh.
- The MCP notice says the app shows an update button, not that opening it
installs anything, and a test reads it through the server's initialize.
Add a test for the failed-download badge branch in runBackgroundUpdateCheck.
When downloadSelfUpdate() returns a failed result, runBackgroundUpdateCheck publishes the available badge (electron/main.ts:802-809). No test covers this branch. A regression that publishes ready on this path would pass the current suite. The current code sets available, so this is a coverage gap and not a present production failure. The branch is new in this PR. The merge base has no badge publication on this path, and the planner tests removed here never covered a failed download.
AGENTS.md requires a test for every new behavior in the same package as the code under test (AGENTS.md:78). The failed-download badge transition is new behavior in the electron package, so this requirement applies and no test satisfies it.
Add a test that asserts the available badge after a failed download. Make the branch testable first, because runBackgroundUpdateCheck is not exported from electron/main.ts.
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Review comment at @electron/background-update.test.ts around lines 19 - 21:
Add test coverage for the failed-download path in runBackgroundUpdateCheck,
asserting that a failed download publishes the available badge rather than
ready. Make runBackgroundUpdateCheck testable through the existing test
structure without changing the production behavior of the badge transition.
Minor · Assert the update notice that cliMain forwards to… · update-notice.test.ts:70-72
Assert the update notice that cliMain forwards to serveMcpOverStdio.
openscreen mcp now computes updateNotice at electron/cli/cliMain.ts:414-416 and passes it to serveMcpOverStdio. The new tests in electron/mcp/update-notice.test.ts call createOpenScreenMcpServer directly, so they never reach this call. electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts mocks serveMcpOverStdio and waits only for toHaveBeenCalled(). Removing the updateNotice argument leaves every test passing. AGENTS.md:78 requires a test for every new behavior in the same package, so this forwarding needs one.
Add a case to electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts that:
Sets app.isPackaged to true in the electron mock. The mock does not define it today, so tellsAboutUpdates is always false in these tests.
Keeps the mocked install channel "nsis". If "nsis" is not in SELF_UPDATING, use a channel that ownsItsUpdates accepts.
Writes mcp-update-check.json in mocks.userData with { "latestVersion": "2.2.0", "checkedAt": Date.now() }. The mocked app version is 2.1.0, so the notice is nonempty. A fresh checkedAt also stops refreshReleaseLookup from fetching.
Types the serve mock's parameter, then asserts that the first call's updateNotice contains 2.2.0.
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Review comment at @electron/mcp/update-notice.test.ts around lines 70 - 72:
Add a forwarding assertion in the cliMain test for openscreen mcp: configure the
Electron mock as packaged, retain an install channel accepted by ownsItsUpdates,
and write a fresh mcp-update-check.json in mocked user data for version 2.2.0.
Type the serveMcpOverStdio mock parameter and assert its first call receives an
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- Line 67: Update the release-lookup description in the “A newer OpenScreen”
paragraph to clarify that the six-hour interval applies after a successful
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Add a packaged non-self-updating case to the update notice test.
The mcp gate at electron/cli/cliMain.ts:408 has two terms: app.isPackaged and ownsItsUpdates(getInstallChannel()). Both mocks in electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts return nsis, so ownsItsUpdates is always true in these tests. Replacing that term with true leaves every cliMain test passing. No test covers a packaged build whose channel does not own its updates, such as store. A regression that drops the check would pass the suite.
Repository guidance requires a test for every new behavior in the package under test. This PR adds the gate, so the packaged non-owning branch is new behavior that needs a test.
it("says nothing from a dev build, which a package manager may own", async () => {
cacheLookup("9.9.9");
await runMcp();
expect(mocks.serve.mock.calls[0][0].updateNotice).toBeUndefined();
});
++ it("says nothing from a packaged Store build, whose package manager owns updates", async () => {+ mocks.isPackaged = true;+ mocks.installChannel = "store";+ cacheLookup("9.9.9");+ await runMcp();+ expect(mocks.serve.mock.calls[0][0].updateNotice).toBeUndefined();+ });
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Review comment at @electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts around lines 45 - 46:
Add coverage in the update notice tests for a packaged build whose install
channel does not own updates. Make the mocked install channel configurable,
reset it alongside the other mocks, and verify that the notice remains undefined
for a channel such as store; retain the existing nsis behavior.
Cover the updateNotice forwarding inside serveMcpOverStdio.
The CLI test replaces serveMcpOverStdio with a mock, so the assertion at lines 139-141 reads only the mock's call arguments. It detects a dropped value before the wrapper call, not inside the wrapper. The instruction test in electron/mcp/update-notice.test.ts builds the server directly and skips stdio-server.ts. No test runs the real serveMcpOverStdio, so removing updateNotice: options.updateNotice, at electron/mcp/stdio-server.ts:44 would leave every test green. The current code forwards the value correctly, so this is a coverage gap, not a live defect.
Add one focused test for the real wrapper. Stub openStdin from ../cli/stdin and the StdioServerTransport. Mock the server factory from ./openscreen-mcp-server so it captures the McpToolDeps it receives. Call serveMcpOverStdio with an updateNotice value and assert that the captured deps carry that value. This checks the forwarding line directly. A full client round-trip over stubbed stdin is not needed, because the client-visible instruction text is already covered by the existing test in update-notice.test.ts.
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The original trivial/nitpick label understates this gap. It is the only untested hop between the CLI and the server instructions for the agent update notice, and the commit's stated purpose is forwarding coverage. It remains a refactor-priority improvement and not a defect.
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Add a focused test for the real serveMcpOverStdio wrapper that stubs openStdin
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- Around line 45-46: Add coverage in the update notice tests for a packaged
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Review comments at @electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts:
- Around line 139-141: Add a focused test for the real serveMcpOverStdio wrapper
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electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts: 2
46-46: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add a non-nsis update-owner case to the cliMain notice tests.
The mock at line 47 hard-codes ownsItsUpdates to channel === "nsis". The notice tests therefore never exercise the real update-owning set for a packaged appimage, dmg, deb, rpm, or pacman install. The current code delivers the notice on those channels. Only a regression in the cliMain gate would go unnoticed here. Add one case with a non-nsis owner channel and a fresh cache, and assert that updateNotice is set.
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Review comment at @electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts at line 46:
Add a notice-test case in the cliMain tests using a non-nsis update-owning
channel, with a fresh cache, and assert that updateNotice is set; update the
ownsItsUpdates mock so it recognizes that channel.
The Store test writes a fresh cache, so refreshReleaseLookup returns before any network call. A refresh that wrongly starts for a Store install therefore passes the netFetch assertion. The test name says it "looks nothing up", but the assertion detects only a lookup that reaches the network. Write a cache older than RELEASE_LOOKUP_INTERVAL_MS (6 hours) in this test. A wrongly started refresh then calls net.fetch before the assertion runs, and the assertion fails. The correct Store path makes no call, so the test still passes on the current code.
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Review comment at @electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts around lines 159 - 162:
Update the Store test’s cache setup so it uses a cache older than
RELEASE_LOOKUP_INTERVAL_MS, allowing an incorrectly started refresh to reach the
network and fail the existing netFetch assertion. Adjust cacheLookup to accept
an optional age while preserving its current default for other tests, and pass
an age exceeding six hours in the Store test.
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Review comments at @electron/cli/cliMain.test.ts:
- Line 46: Add a notice-test case in the cliMain tests using a non-nsis
update-owning channel, with a fresh cache, and assert that updateNotice is set;
update the ownsItsUpdates mock so it recognizes that channel.
- Around line 159-162: Update the Store test’s cache setup so it uses a cache
older than RELEASE_LOOKUP_INTERVAL_MS, allowing an incorrectly started refresh
to reach the network and fail the existing netFetch assertion. Adjust
cacheLookup to accept an optional age while preserving its current default for
other tests, and pass an age exceeding six hours in the Store test.
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Summary
One update flow, the one Codex and VS Code use: check in the background, download in the background, show an update button, install on the user's click.
Before: a check once per 24 hours of continuous uptime, which most sessions never reach, answered by a modal box, plus three update modes in the tray.
Now:
openscreen mcplooks the release up at most every six hours, cached. When a newer version exists, its instructions tell the agent to inform the user once and never to update OpenScreen itself.User journey per install
winget install --source msstore).exe, per user.exe, all users.dmgbrew upgradeworks too.brew upgrade..deb,.rpm,.pacmanopenscreen mcpRelated issue
Refs #301
Type of change
Release impact
Desktop impact
Screenshots / video
None yet. The updater only runs in a packaged build, so the button cannot be shown from a dev build.
Testing
i18n:check.manual-e2e-checklist.mdcovers it: when it is mandatory, how to get a newer version to update to (RC path everywhere, a local feed on Windows and Linux), and the checks. AGENTS.md points computer-use agents at it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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