Automatic Update disabled by default and prompt before restarting to install update

[jedthe3rd]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
If installing an older version of DevPod (to get around a but in the latest release, etc). When starting it will automatically update to the latest version.

Which solution do you suggest?
Have automatic updates disabled by default and prompting for confirmation before restarting devpod to update.

Which alternative solutions exist?
Automatic download and auto update on restart might be better way of doing automatic updates.

Additional context
This also becomes an issue when dealing with corporate software security requirements that might require validating a specific version for distribution in the company and any updates will fail requiring the user to edit the DevPod config files directly or quickly disabling updates in the UI before it restarts. Bad user experience overall.

[pascalbreuninger]

Hi @jedthe3rd, thanks for the suggestion! What platform are you running on?

The defaults right now should be that auto updates are enabled but you're prompted before restarting. You can also click on Later to apply the update on next startup.

Additionally, you can opt-out of auto updates in Settings > Updates > Auto Updates

[jedthe3rd]

I am running on Windows 11. Testing on 0.6.11 it doesn't prompt me to confirm whether I want to update. The problem with the opt-out is you need to navigate to the settings menu and do that before it restarts, basically racing against the application. Again a bad user experience.

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