Feature request: preference to disable auto-update

[stevejalim]

Low-priority thing, but more often than ideal the keybase client decides to download what feels like a chunky update, often in the middle of a video call ;o)

An option to defer/disable auto-updates would be handy.

Keybase GUI Version: 1.0.15-20160506130016+14e3546

[cjb]

Sorry about that! We're switching it to start the download after you agree to the upgrade.

[Asday]

I'd still like something like this. Literally every day I get an update notification in my system tray because keybase has a new release.

I don't personally hold keybase as important in my eyes to be kept up to the most recent commit. I'd much prefer it only did security + incompatibility upgrades.

[tvanderstad]

Bump. My work computer blocks applications that aren't whitelisted, which means every time Keybase updates I can't use it until I submit the new version for approval. Pretty sure "Keep Keybase up-to-date" is already a preference you can set when you install, I would think it just needs to be exposed in settings.

[rebane2001]

This is a must have If we want Keybase to be a piece of software with zero trust on the server, there should be an (optional) option to disable auto-updates

[wegotoeleven]

Other Electron apps (like Slack, Visual Studio Code etc) that use the Squirrel framework for auto-updates expose this as an option within the app, and also give the ability for these auto-updates to be suppressed via command line, typically from within a preferences file. It would be great if Keybase had similar functionality. It means that this app could be deployed to users without admin rights.

[PathToLife]

man.. was generating root gpg keys for a vault installation.

And then this blue window pops up out of nowhere for a split second, disappears, and cpu fan gets loud.

Classic powershell remote execution kinda thing...

Task manager shows setup.exe, with a sub generic windows service going ham.

Windows update is doing nothing. I'm panicking at little. 🚨🚨🚨 I've been hacked? I've been hacked!

but then i see this

Looks like it was just keepass auto update? Or was it? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Other

Love the application though guys!!! All the best working on zoom in the meantime.

[Mugane]

Why has this not been addressed after 5 years? There needs to be a way to permanently disable automatic update checks. Updates are handled through group policy and should never be done by individual machines, it only reverts and adds incessant annoying notifications.

[Mugane]

Over a year later. Still nothing. Why? This is clearly an obvious, basic need that is trivial to implement. Losing confidence in the whole app...

[MattWeatherford]

I dont see an "Auto update" enable/disable setting anywhere on Mac OS X - I've had to downgrade to 5.9.0 in order to get things working again.... how long before it updates again to the broken version? Do the devs have the ability to turn off the autoupdate when new releases break stuff ? Is there a lever and does anyone have a hand on it? :)

If you good devs are reluctant to allow users to turn this off for fear of being hopelessly out of date, please at least consider putting in a "delay update for 30 days" checkbox or something

thanks for considering!

Matt

[jseeley78]

@MattWeatherford try going to ~/Library/Application Support/Keybase/updater.json and set ->

   "auto": false

[MattWeatherford]

Thank you @jseeley78 - I made a howto here: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24819#issuecomment-1034500046