We are currently shipping version 2. Switching to ship version 4, the current version, should have no negative side effects and will allow us to skip 2 extra HTTP calls when the autoupdater does its first update after launcher startup.
As a note to our future selves, the old notary build process would update CWD to the current one, and bake that in. We removed it as part of the TUF migration, and had always planned on re-adding it.
We are currently shipping version 2. Switching to ship version 4, the current version, should have no negative side effects and will allow us to skip 2 extra HTTP calls when the autoupdater does its first update after launcher startup.
In the future, we will bake in updating to latest root.json during the build process: https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/1705