kupietools
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1 month ago This is seriously annoying. I've got a very old mac which still works perfectly, running so I have it running some administrative stuff, like Syncthing. Tonight it gave me the update notification so I updated. And now Syncthing doesn't work anymore, and this is on a headless machine I'm accessing over VNC and having all sorts of network problems, and I had to go find a compatible version, and once I got it installed and running it was stuck "offline" and I got sucked into troubleshooting, and what I thought was going to be a 30 second upgrade now has consumed about 2 hours of my time when I was in the middle of other things, and it's 3:30AM and I don't have a working install of Syncthing anymore, and really it was much easier when syncthing just worked, and I really would have prefered if it hadn't tricked me into destroying it.
Come on folks, this is easy to prevent. Since v1.27.7 decided to drop support for versions of macOS prior to 12.7, all you have to do is add a
<sparkle:minimumSystemVersion>12.7.0</sparkle:minimumSystemVersion>tag to your https://upgrades.syncthing.net/syncthing-macos/appcast.xml Sparkle feed to prevent unsupported versions of macOS from even seeing the Sparkle update popup.No need for people to https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos?tab=readme-ov-file#disable-automatic-update-checker
See https://sparkle-project.org/documentation/publishing/#minimum-system-version-requirements for more info
Related #216, #217, #218, #219