Some applications display the latest version incorrectly

[liby]

• As shown below, an update is prompted within the application, but the CLI still shows the current version as the latest.

• I don't know if this is an issue with "homebrew-cask-upgrade" or if some applications are not uploading the latest version to the website

• By the way, what does "A / U" mean? I don't see the relevant documentation.

  • Is it an auto-update?
  • If "Y" is displayed, the application will ask you if you want to upgrade while the application is running.

• Am I getting this right?

[ondrejfuhrer]

Hello @liby , thank you for letting us know. The version update is a manual process in Homebrew Cask repo, therefore it is updated hours (sometimes days) after the new version is released. Is it not something we can do here 🙂

Regarding the A / U column, that means Auto-Update and indicates if that application has auto-update capabilities. You can also see the [ PASS ] result on those apps -> if you would like to update them, you need to add -a or --all parameter to the command (brew cu -a).

Hope that answers your questions 🙂

[liby]

Thank you for your concise, understandable and timely reply.

One last question before we close. I hope you can answer me.

The user himself clicks the upgrade within the application, can homebrew-cask-upgrade gets the version number of the program after it has been updated, and it shows up in [ Pass ] result.

Have you considered supporting this feature?

[ondrejfuhrer]

Unfortunately that is not possible since the app would need to provide Homebrew with that information. I don't know about a way of detecting that change. There were discussions about that before in the Homebrew community and AFAIK there was no solution to this problem.