Auto-updater does not find new releases from the same day.

Describe the bug The auto-updater does not find new releases if they are released in the same day as the most recent release.

To Reproduce

1. Create a new release draft.
2. Publish the release.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 in the same day.
4. Attempt to have auto-update work.

Expected behavior If the latest.yml in /<repo>/releases/latest has a different version than the current, it should be considered the latest.

Screenshots N/A

Additional context This seems to stem from the fact that in semantic versioning, v1.2.3-456, the 456 would be considered a pre-release. It might be best to identify a way to utilize package.json and npm version to use proper semantic versioning for releases to avoid this problem.

[cawa-93]

In case anyone else stumbles across this, here’s a little workaround for the automatic release process. In .electron-builder.config.js, remove one . character in the version string (the one that separates month from day) and replace the - with a .. Basically, you want to turn 22.10.15-575 into 22.1015.575.

if (process.env.VITE_APP_VERSION === undefined) {
  const now = new Date()
  process.env.VITE_APP_VERSION = `${now.getUTCFullYear() - 2000}.${
    now.getUTCMonth() + 1
  }${now.getUTCDate()}.${now.getUTCHours() * 60 + now.getUTCMinutes()}`
}

The next day, all of your old installs will probably auto update. But for new installations, this solution works immediately. Electron will auto update immediately when it detects a new version online. This is because semver now treats the new release as a new release instead of a small update.

Then you will got: 22.1.31 -> 22.131 22.2.1 -> 22.21 Second is newest version but according to semver is oldest because 21 < 131.

Using day of year should solve it. I’ll try to make the appropriate changes ASAP (if the fuckingRussians don’t launch missiles into my city)

[cawa-93]

Now app version just reading from root package.json. You can implement your own versioning logic in getVersion() See change note: https://github.com/cawa-93/vite-electron-builder/discussions/870