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[EdGeraghty]

Types

• Fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Refactor (non-breaking change which improves code quality - QA thoroughly )
• Breaking Change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Chore (updates that would not affect or change the code involving the app itself)

Changes

🔮 Features

Opt-in Advanced Setting to poll GitHub for updated releases (closes #711)

🐛 Fixes

🔒 Security

🛠 Performance

📐 Refactoring

Media (if applicable)

QA

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• Unencrypted Chat
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• Group Chats
• Profile Changes
• Theming Changes
• Force Kill and Restart

Final Checklist

• All associated issues have been linked to PR
• All necessary changes made to the documentation
• Parties interested in these changes have been notified
• Linter has been run on all code in the PR

[ereio]

I'll add the dialog here in a bit

Was wondering if we could add another saved state variable to allow for dismissing the dialog without it popping up each time
Ideally we could just save an updateAcknowledgedTimestamp and if that timestamp is greater than the update time, it won't appear

Happy to add that too unless you'd like / want to do the work for that :)

Once both are added, I'll approve! good work! 🚀

[ereio]

@EdGeraghty this should work now, if you were testing before would you mind checking this out?

Also what are you thoughts on a redirect vs. downloading the APK directly? I've added a redirect right now and I think that's fine but happy to change it

[EdGeraghty]

If we leave it going to the releases page it'll cover desktop builds too 🎉

[EdGeraghty]

this should work now, if you were testing before would you mind checking this out?

I'm struggling to make it fire on Windows Desktop, but I don't know if that's a config thing. When I've a little time I'll try an Android build and see what happens there.

[ereio]

If we're happy without the desktop portion of this working, are we ok to merge this for now? @EdGeraghty